OUGD401 - Lecture Notes: Wall & Street Art

• Cave painting - Lascaux 17,300 years old
• Ancient roman graffiti - Pompeii

• Kilroy.Chad - WWII - referring to wartime rations - joke of social situations affecting general population - humorousness from where it was placed

• Paris - May '68 - Paris revolt/strike

• Urban graffiti

• 1970's NY spray can graffiti - evolves alongside hip hop culture - marks the language of the street visible - announcing a presence - 'we will not be ignored'

• John Near - photographer 1973 - documented the graffiti

• Jean-Michel Basquiat - 1960 - 88 - fuses a written message with a image message - SAMO - same old... - neo-impressionism - worked with Warhol

• Keith Harig - radient baby, 1990 - artist & social activist sketches on existing advertising images in the subway - gets commissions over the world - pop shop - sells t-shirts, toys, posters, bearing his signature images - criticised for making money for selling his work

• John Feckner - Broken Promises 1980
• Jenny Holzer - Time Square 1980
• Berlin Wall - graffiti - comment of the lack of availability of branded and technology in the Eastern blog

• THATS CRU, 1997 for coca-cola - graffiti in advertising for large companies

• Bomb the world, Jet Set radio - video games about graffiti - exploration into subcultures

• Invader - Mosaics - tiles are pixel like - invasion spreads first across France & then the world - maps - like a game - sending on a 'mission' to collect

• Banksy - Shpard Fairey - Obama, 2008

• JR - Parisions photographer - Favela Morro Da Provienda - Rio 2008

• Blu & OS Gemeos - Lisbon 2010 - Oil - animated graffiti
• 123 Klan (France) Work for Lamborghini, Nike, Adidas etc

• Environemtal - Pand Curtis - reverse graffiti - water gun blaster & stencil - clean wall is image

• Graffiti as a global picture - free art friday - work world inside

• Sam 3 - one black point - limiting resources he uses
• Alexandre Farto - VHILS
• Faith 71