Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spraypaint. Very cool!
Schiller who spends his days collaborating with street artists wanted to give these artists the opportunity to interact with New York. "As much as technology and the Web connect everything, you can't replicate the experience of being together."
The opening also merged street and multimedia art with screenings and interactive installations from Simultan, Romania's largest video and media-arts festival. It's still a relatively small festival, but Cristian Neagoe, the young new communications director largely responsible for bringing these artists here, says it's easier to get an authentic experience that way. "Here it's a bit more controlled," he says. "An artist becomes trendy and the media latch on. In Romania they're starting from scratch, nobody watches or gives a damn, and that way, they have the freedom to innovate."
GRAFFITI JAPAN is another fine book on contemporary art and design from Mark Batty Publisher. As with all of their books this volume addresses art in a specific place and assures the reader/viewer that the cultural background of that location is woven throughout this richly illustrated volume to add to the pleasure of encountering fresh art forms as a meaningful experience.
Today I am reviewing a graffiti website to you. http://graffiti.flixya.com is a web sharing photo and videos about graffiti, streetart and arts. It was started on a few days. If you love graffiti go to visit it. 
Before you start a piece of graffiti art, you should draw a small scale version of the large piece you want to create first, then when you begin your actual piece, its a simple task of just scaling up your graffiti sketch.
If you need ideas for a graffiti font to use, there are plenty of sites online that have examples for you to copy. For the outlines, use a fine marker pen. In order to produce a 3D effect, shade around the letters you've outlined with a different colour. Then use permanent markers to colour in your letters.
Once you are ready to paint your sketch on to your larger canvas or wall, you need to draw a reference grid over your small drawing. Sketch a full size replica of the grid on to your wall or canvas that you are using for your scaled up graffiti piece. Use either chalk, charcoal or diluted paint to draw the large grid. To make marking the grid out easier, the simplest thing to do is to use a piece of string.
Use chalk or charcoal to transfer your small drawing on to you larger canvas. Use an aerosol can to paint the background in using diluted paint, keep the layer thin and allow it to dry before you start your colouring. When you've finished the outline and the background, it's time to add the colours and detail. Again use aerosols to add the colours. Start with the lightest colours first and the largest sections, and then move on to the detail and the smaller areas last.
When you've coloured your work in, you can add the fine definition with a brush to enhance the fine lines and borders around your figures and letters. You can preserve it for years to come with a thin layer of varnish.
Like the caveman singing at the sight of the impression of his hand on a rock, these young people feel triumph at the sight of their graffiti. Dondi White makes the same kind of comparison in his first pictures in 1983. Does the impression left by the prehistoric artist not have something prophetic about it? Does it not announce, from a dark grotto, that man will survive? Does it not indicate that history will be reborn in the original form of graffiti, also painted by artists working in the night and expressing, in this way, their aspirations to a new world order?
Over the years (1968-1980) all kinds of styles of imaginative decoration emerged in the field of “tags”. Realism and Romanticism co-existed in the light of the existence of enemies and obstacles such as the police, stool pigeons, various gangs, wolves, dogs, the huge fences and the cleaning installations threatening both the graffiti creator and his work.
So it is not surprising to note that the graffiti-writers move out of the stage of being students, disciples or masters to become a prince or king of subway art and street art. It is also obvious that it is only one more step to become an artist. Art, after all, is above all a pictorial representation of consciousness.
This definition began to appear for the first time at the end of the 1970’s and the start of the 1980’s and it’s just as important in the history of art – which after all aims at humanizing the world – as Marcel Duchamp when he turned a urinal into a work of art, shocking the world.
The New York Graffiti movement was like a bomb thrown into the art world. Few genres have managed to attract so much media attention and the discussions surrounding the movement persisted. Various films, books, newspaper articles and items in the official art reviews have concerned themselves with the debate. In the television film “Wild Style”(1981), graffiti is portrayed as a kind of total art, with train spray can art, break dancing, hip hop- and rap music constituting an invisible whole.
The graffiti movement made it’s appearance in Europe as an artistic movement in 1983 when the Yaki Kornblidt Gallery displayed the first graffiti pictures.
Well known dutch collectors bought a large number of splendid graffiti works by artists like Rammellzee, Blade, Quik, Futura 2000, Bill Blast, Crash, Dondi White, Seen and Zephyr.
It was an exciting time. The enthusiasts fought over the best pictures and all the 1983 and 1984 exhibitions sold out. The prices followed along with the trend.
The museums quickly took an interest in graffiti and Wim Beerens, who was director of Rotterdam Boymans-van Beuningen museum, and Frans Haks, director of the Groningen Museum, bought various works.
In 1983 Wim Beeren organized the first large-scale official exhibition about the New York Graffiti movement for the Boymans museum and it attracted 25.000 visitors, mostly very excited. The catalogues and the admission tickets were sold out at a blink of an eye. The public delighted in the vivid and twinkling colours, the movement, the aesthetics and the rhythm of those very expressive paintings.
The Groninger Museum took over the show and over 40.000 visitors took the show in. The works of Koor, A-One and Toxic were not part of the shows, because those artists were not really known in The Netherlands, but this is now recognized as a mistake.
The enthusiasm spread to Germany when the well-known collector Ludwig purchased some of the artists’ works and graffiti made a tour of German museums.
In 1986 the Groninger Museum organised the first exhibition dedicated to Rammellzee and 3.000 visitors stormed the museum at the opening and some paintings had to be temporarily withdrawn from the exhibition. The four week show attracted 10.000 people.
This DVD is a documentary film about the build-up making release and - crucially - music contained on this most revered of albums. With the aid of rare and classic performances scarce interviews seldom seen photographs and contributions from those involved in the making of the record - plus the review and critique from a panel of Zeppelin experts.
Tattoo art and graffiti have always been closely correlated. So it seems fitting that actual graffiti should be the next wave of body art.
Today i try to searching about "Mexican Gang Graffiti", Do you see this word before?. O.K. this is detail about it on ... policeone.com Mexican gang graffiti is more simplistic and to the point than other street gang graffiti. In one tattoo, Vagos is abbreviated by taking the first, middle and last letters of the gang name to create the gangs version of an acronym. (V.G.S.)
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George Lucas got his start going to school at USC, which got him an internship on a Francis Ford Coppola film currently shooting. Through this the two became good friends and ultimately produced films together under Coppola’s banner American Zoetrope. The first of these was a film called THX-1138, a feature length version of a student film Lucas also directed. It showed an uncompromising bleak future which was well received, giving Lucas many accolades as a director to watch.
Consisting from simple scratches to elaborate paintings on the wall, this art form is ancient and, like time, has evolved a hundred fold. In earliest times, the cavemen used it on the cave walls to depict their day to day activities, and the ancient Greeks used it in "modern style" to advertise prostitution. In this manner, the Greeks carved a handprint that looks like a heart beside a footprint and a number, indicating that a brothel is near.
The Romans used it to carve love poems, love letters, alphabets, slogans or any other messages that they want to convey to the public in general in a fast way, on their walls and monuments. For them, it was a way of advertising and easy information dissemination. Not only did they do the art form in letters, they also had it in pictures. An example of this would be a second century carving of a crucified donkey that many believe to be a depiction of Jesus Christ.
Despite the many reproofs, famous artists and painters had made use of it for plain amusement or for their profession. At one time, Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi, Pinturrichio, and Ghirlandaio went to visit Nero's Domus Aurea ruins and carved, or painted, their names resulting to a new style of decoration of that era. A lot of evidences provide information that the Americans, the French, the Egyptians, the Malays, the Japanese and the Chinese of early times had also made use of it. This just goes to show that no matter how hard some people refute and regard it as junk, this certain art form is part of their culture and history.
In this day and time, graffiti has evolved greatly and has become part and parcel of the hip hop society and culture. With the technology available at hand, instead of carving the messages or images on the walls, the ones who make use of this art form now make use of the most handy aerosol spray cans, making it the most used tool for the modern art form. Because of this, graffiti has become a street art form and along with it emerged new styles. The first one is the basic form called the tag style.
Because of its ease in execution being just a representation of an artist's name, it is most often used to gain recognition and as a signature of a larger piece. Next is where one makes a layer of color then outlines it with another color. This is called the throw-up style. Next style is the blockbuster style, which is made up of block letters making it very easy to read. The last style is called wild style and is made up of blended letters which are highly decorated.
There are little facts available about him but his works are all over the world. His works are very amusing and his personality just shines through in his work. The art shows a satirical side of politics, culture and ethics. He uses a stenciling style when he does his graffiti work. It can be said that he does work for the sake of doing art. He does not sell pictures of his graffiti or do exhibitions in commercial art galleries. Bristol ...
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As part of the program, Boise Police dispatchers will send community specialists, not sworn officers, to take the graffiti report, including photographs.
Property owners will be given a brochure with information on how to remove graffiti, and the importance of quick removal.
In addition, the specialists will help enter graffiti reports daily into a crime analysis data system for immediate access by criminal investigators looking for perpetrators.
Having been a graffiti writer and fan of graffiti for many years now, and also a fan and apreciator of the majority of the Montana team, I was really looking forward to seeing this book. I think this is really cheap and wack.Montana Colors is an aerosol paint company that manufactures specialty paints for graffiti artists. It should not be confused with Montana Cans, also a paint company for graffiti artists.
In 1993, two writers who were opening a hip-hop store in Barcelona, Spain, contacted a paint company inquiring about prices of their paint. The commercial manager there, Jordi, heard the idea of manufacturing paint for graffiti artists, and was willing to act on it.
The manager, however, was unable to convince the company of the idea's profitability. Thus, Jordi and the writers worked together to create an ideal paint for artists. In 1994, an event called "Aerosol Art" became the place in which the first Montana Colors aerosol spray was unveiled to the public. Soon after the "Hardcore" 400mL can was also unveiled, a common product today. Then in 2001, the "Alien" cans debuted. These were smaller, lower pressure cans that came in a wide variety of colors.
