TAGS, SQUIGGLES AND MORE........TO MAKE STREET ART

As time goes by, have you noticed that names seem to change for the same kind of work ? Tagging, graffiti  Street Art. Well in actual fact they all have different definitions even if for me, they add up to the same thing. Probably many of you are like me. I find it very disfiguring especially when it boils down to squiggles and initials all over a door, the underground, on a wall or so forth. Then Gianni began to talk to me about it. And even showed me work which seemed to be closer to Art rather than tags and squiggles. I saw the exposition on at the Cartier Foundation and a couple of others which I have talked about. Not surprising then that I went off to the Foundation EDF which you have also visited with me.


If you really do want to go back in time, perhaps we could say that street art was invented by the cave man at the beginning of time. On rocks just as all our prehistoric ancestors did to tell their story. Those I have seen around the world are quite fascinating.



Street art though, even if this is a total retrospective, leaves me very perplex.

The artists of this movement are generally very inventive and suddenly, when they become known, their art is no longer discovered in the street but in galleries and sold at horrendous prices. Their techniques become more and more sophisticated. There are so many pages on Internet today where we can all see, enjoy (?) and buy street art. One very good page which has followed this culture around the world is

http://www.streetartutopia.com/http://www.streetartutopia.com/
                                                    -
 this for me IS Street Art.

What was interesting in this exhibition was its interactive side. We could all participate, draw as we wanted to. Adolescents were very involved - and even younger.



Painting with water on a brush

which disappears


At any other exhibition there are always moments when the crowds are not there. Here it was not the case. School groups listened to lectures, youth wandered in and out. Everyone was clicking away with there telephones. An apparent interest.




See the group?



I usually delete the frames of the photos I take. When I could, I left them on.


You know who this is ?









 Others didn't have frames:








Seem to have seen it before...

The 2nd prize in a competition





Not exactmly original





Quite liked this....






 And some really were Street Art









…Over to you to tell me how you feel about such work

..This is the video (in French) related to the exhibition. Even if you don't understand, it's interesting to see the set up......

http://fondation.edf.com/249/programmes/nos-expositions/streetart-l-innovation-au-coeur-d-un-mouvement


The artists who made up the exhibition - the names in themselves are quite something.

Arone - BauBô - DawnLightgraff Charlie Teulade - Crey 132 - El fasto Eldjune - EZK Street Art - Guillaume B Jo Di Bona - Jungle - Kräsh 2 - Lady K Liza OMT - Lord Anthony Cahn Louis Barbier Bottero - Basto - Mathieu Bories - Nuno de Matox - Mg EtaLabomba Mush Street - Nassyo - Pekone - Pimax RDLS - Reoner - Shadow - YROW GAP Solen - Streek - Stew - Wire - Wizard Mister Pee - Lassaâd Metoui Marceau Vicario - Sculi .......

Commentaires

Michael Keane a dit…
I find it an interesting comment that you don't usually include frames in your photographs. Watched a doco of professional photographers using the new camera (Google?) fitted to their glasses. Their complaint was that the camera didn't have a framing facility.
4/4/15 02:04
Enregistrer un commentaire

Posts les plus consultés de ce blog

CONFLICTS AND ENCOUNTERS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Image
Over the years, I have gone on discovering Wifredo Lam. He has been mentioned in different Blog chapters but always within permanent collections. I have to admit today that in the early years, I took one of his paintings for a Picasso….and seeing certain paintings of his today, it didn’t really surprise me. Especially as I learnt that he knew Picasso…This though was a retrospective of his work at the Beaubourg. Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) was a precursor of a cross-cultural style of painting, infusing Western modernism with African and Caribbean symbolism. He must have been one of the very rare artists who was in contact with all the movements of his time …and all those that I follow. Cubism, surrealism, CoBrA…but he never lost sight of the world around him and took on the struggle to paint the drama of his own country, Cuba. The above photo plunges us at once into the exhibition. Was he an attractive man? I think there are later photos which make him look less brutal….but in my book,
Lire la suite

MY BELOVED PICASSO -I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS -

Image
After 25 years as a museum, it was time to renovate the Picasso site. The « Hotel » as we call it, has quite a history. It is probably, as Bruno Foucart wrote in 1985,  (he is an art historian of 19th century architecture) “the grandest, most extraordinary, if not the most extravagant, of the Parisian houses of the 17th century”. Hotel Salé The Main stair case Another coming down "Picasso" would have liked these lights The building has seen many occupants come and go over the centuries. However, paradoxically, before the place was entrusted to the museum, it was rarely “inhabited”, but instead leased out to various private individuals, prestigious hosts and institutions. And so it became the Picasso museum. The renovations began in 2009 and quite obviously went well over budget and should have opened before the holidays started this year. The political arguments too had to be contended with not to mention the changes in Directors and the big question bei
Lire la suite

THE CHOICE OF ONE OF THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD

Image
The exhibition season is very full between January and the French holiday period. I make less and less effort to go and see the « block-busters » and there are some museums which are not easy to get around. The Jacquemart André is one of them. The rooms are so small and when a couple of groups move in, it is virtually impossible to see a picture or move at all. Still I was interested to go and see the Alicia Koplowitz collection. Now I come to think of it, there have been quite a few private collections shown to the public since the end of last year.  Naturally I knew nothing about this woman.  Alicia Koplowitz is very well known in her home country, Spain. Thanks to her company, the Capital Omega Group  a comprehensive financial services company , she has become an important collect er Alicia is is a Spanish business magnate. When her father died, she and her sister inherited Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (CYCSA), a company founded by her father. She  sold her part of the comp
Lire la suite