What is graffiti art?
Graffiti writers use spray paint bottles as brushes to render emotions, express their views and positions on today's society, and look forward to the future society. A famous painter can also combine with clothing to set off the fashion of clothing. In the works of some characters, you can even identify Mao Zedong in China, fidel castro ruz and ernesto guevara in Cuba.
One of the earliest and most important graffiti arts is Savage Seven (later called "Spades" with the increase of the number of people), which is afrika bambaataa who later appeared in the old-school rap. Spades have many followers, and one of the purposes of the rise of graffiti art is to mark their boundaries. Graffiti art is a street art that appeared in cities in 1950s. 1969 was officially developed and became very common in the 1970s. Originality is very important for graffiti art. For example, 1972, the famous graffiti artist super kool replaced a can of oven cleaner with a spray-painted cover with a wide bandwidth, which is still common today. At 1976, some graffiti artists, such as lee quinones, began to use advanced technology to do graffiti. Most of his famous works are about politics, such as calling for an end to the arms race. Graffiti art can be traced back to hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt.
The punk spirit emphasized by the East Village art is essentially the same as the graffiti painting that began to appear in the 1970s, so the East Village has also become the base camp for graffiti artists to live together. Graffiti painting was not noticed by the art world at first. In most cases, it is in the underground of self-development and self-satisfaction
State, only in the first half of the 1980s, it surfaced, becoming the most popular painting style of new york School and the most shining scenery of East Village art. ..
The exhibition in Times Square is its brightest moment. However, its glory was only a flash in the pan and soon returned to the forgotten underground state. Graffiti artists often have differences because of this appearance, and some of them have made a splash in this exhibition and won international reputation. As a result, their works have become the new favorites accepted by orthodox art institutions and artistic concepts. But because of this, they also lost the original spirit of graffiti art, divorced from the original state of life, and their works became a mere formality, pale and lifeless. There are also some artists who always stick to their own styles, materials and battlefields-city walls and subways, and remain their true colors after the noise, such as Rawlings.
Graffiti art is related to popular pop art in 1960s. Some art critics believe that graffiti art is the inheritance and development of popular culture. They are in the same spirit and tend to pay attention to pop culture. However, there are great differences between graffiti artists and pop artists. All famous pop artists, almost without exception, have been trained by professional art colleges, while graffiti artists are the opposite. Most of them are descendants of the working class and have not received formal art training. They are the leaders of new york 1 1, 12-year-old fans, and started their artistic career-graffiti at an early age. Although one of the core of graffiti art and pop art is pop culture, pop artists just want to understand and express their thoughts on pop culture, not to get close to it. They make a neutral evaluation and examination of popular culture from the perspective of a bystander, so their works reveal a sense of indifference and distance. Obviously, there is a certain gap between pop artists and their materials and performance objects. However, this kind of curtain does not exist in graffiti artists. What they did came directly from new york's urban mass culture, from which they were born. They were the direct experiencers and creators of popular culture at that time, and they were popular culture. They are still young, so their works reveal a natural and naive flavor. Although the technique is clumsy and rough, it is very touching and simple.
Graffiti teenagers compete with each other to see who has the most works and whose title is the loudest. They paint their names or pen names in conspicuous places in all possible public places to show their contempt for adult authority.
In the early 1970s, ambitious graffiti artists painted their own designs on all subway cars. They frantically add informal decorations and paintings in public places, especially billboards in subway stations and outside subway cars. They played hide-and-seek with the police with guns full of paint. These pigments are often stolen, so legally speaking, the behavior of graffiti teenagers has violated the law. In order to prevent them from scribbling, new york Transportation Bureau once charged all the subway lines that stopped at high voltage, which led to a tragedy. A graffiti teenager was electrocuted while doodling in a subway station. This incident caused a long-lasting debate, and those who supported and sympathized with graffiti art fought against those who opposed what they thought was against the law. Defenders believe that graffiti painting is a new and exciting form of expression that new york, who is full of creative spirit, shows to people. It is the record and display of the mental state and psychological experience of an era. Finally, the debate ended in the transportation department. People agree that minor violations of the law for artistic purposes are tolerable. Therefore, the appearance of graffiti art has attracted the attention of the art world and the public. 1973 exhibited graffiti art for the first time, and the works were transferred from graffiti patterns on the subway to canvas. By the end of 1970s, graffiti painting had become a frequent visitor to new york Lower East Side Art Museum, and more and more graffiti artists' assembly areas were established. Some galleries began to display the works of graffiti artists, and their business was also very successful. Graffiti art turns from underground to the ground.
Graffiti artists are mostly unknown in the history of art, which is related to the underground concealment of graffiti art, the randomness and unsystematic creation, and the dispersion and mass of creators. Only a few graffiti artists have formed their own unique and fixed style, which has been recognized by the art world. The most famous are Jean-Michel Basque (1960- 1988), keith haring and Kenny Schaff.
Baskaya was a talented and sensitive artist, but unfortunately, he died young. At the age of 28, he died of an overdose. His father is Haitian and his mother is Puerto Rican. He grew up in new york. Unlike his graffiti partner, he is not a poor child from a slum, and his family is basically close to the middle class level. Baskaya was not a good student in new york public schools in her early years, but was full of rebellious spirit. He named himself Samo, which means old prodigal son. Although he is disobedient, he is smart, studious and has outstanding talent in painting and calligraphy. He has long been attracted by the fanaticism of graffiti art and actively participated in this movement. Because of his excellent painting skills and artistic sense, his works quickly stood out. 1987, he held his first solo exhibition in new york. Since then, she has participated in group exhibitions in Lucerne, Castle and Whitney Museum of American Art in new york. His works are also popular in the auction market. He was the first black artist to appear on the cover of new york Times magazine. His talent attracted andy warhol's attention, and later they cooperated. Warhol's collage and advertising tendency have a great influence on Basque's improvisation. Together, they created a large number of works and achieved great success.