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Poster John Hamon on an election sign in Paris

The street art or street art is a contemporary art movement. It includes all forms of art made in the street or in public places and includes various methods such as graffiti, stencil graffiti, stickers or facilities. It is mainly an ephemeral art.

Summary

/ / Definition

Since its internationalization (greatly facilitated by the development of a network of audiovisual communication in the world ) in the early twenty-first century, urban art, as a movement of contemporary art asserts itself in a variety of practices that can not be strictly separated by some aspect of street art as Madonnaro.

Thus, ZEVS (aka: Area visual and sound experience) performs regular performances that are echoes of disciplines such as juggling or happenings. As such, it could be described as street artists. Similarly, a portion of the work of Banksy may be described as pop art by Paul Ardenne terminology when it comes for example in a museum exhibit illegally. Absurd propaganda by Shepard Fairey, OBEY the Giant , is a borderline case of zeitgest. John Hamon uses the techniques of street art to raise the issue of promoting the artist by displaying a photocopied portrait. In line Buren or Christo , the work of JR (artist) questions the limits of the city. Urban art must be understood as a relationship dialectics of street art and land art (Pierre-Evariste Dower). The development of the Brazilian scene (especially in So Paulo, where all display advertising was banned) said that the graffiti , especially with Pixao History

A movement in contemporary art?

Urban art flourished in France since (at least) in May 1968 , but the movement is "formalized" in the early 1980s , influenced by, among others, to Agnes b. and occasionally (exhibitions, supports the tag) of Jack Lang. Recently renamed street art, urban art is an artistic movement or autonomous parallel to the tag, and graffiti. Its initiators are names Zlotykamien , Daniel Buren , Ernest Pignon-Ernest , his pioneer Blek le Rat , Jerome Mesnager , Miss.Tic. In the early 1980s, it was Jean Faucheur , the Brothers Ripoulin , Muslims smoking , the VLP and Miss.Tic , Nemo , and Andre. With the arrival of Invader and Zevs (nonymous the @) in the late 1990s appears to call it post-graffiti. Since the late 90s, with the arrival of artists like Shepard Fairey in the United States of Banksy in England, Blu in Italy Influenza in the Netherlands, Sweden Akayism, urban art is a the first international artistic movements. Present urban art as an art movement is justified insofar as its representatives (Zevs, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Banksy, Ron Franais) are directly related, constituting an artistic field interaction as illustrated by the film Banksy. For example, Space Invader to open a gallery in 2003 that received Shepard Fairey. Just as the Impressionists and Cubists rubbed, urban artists are creating in orchestration, a single body. In a word, they expose all in the same gallery: the street.

Chronology

  • During the decade of 1990, the spotlight is mainly occupied by graffiti hip hop. Propagation is by internationnale television; Mesnager reports of his trips to Africa Ardisson in sunglasses for sleepless nights in 1990.
  • 2000 :
    • May 2000 : first interventions in the WALL
    • September 12 to September 28, 2000: group exhibition, shows the renewal of urban art space in Paris Bastille-Tiphaine, 8 transition from the good seed (11th) combining: Poch, Blek, Olivier Stak, HNT, Andr, Space Invader, Zevs Sam Bern RCF1. (Souvenirs de Paris)
  • 1 st Quarter 2001: Published in 1500 copies of the wafer Memories of Paris, bringing together: Andrew Blek, NST, Sam Bern, Space-Invader , Olivier Stack and Zevs.
  • September 2001 , exhibition "ecumenical" of the day gallery agnes b. that reconciles historical trends ( Futura 2000 ), " Graffiti "( Jonone ) and " post-graffiti "at the time untitled, in tribute to the disappearance of Dondi White . Participate (full list): Andre , Aone Bad Boy Crew (jay and ash Skki), Fafi Futura Jack 2, Jonone , Atlas, Mist , Moze, Os Gemeos, O'clock , Psyckose, Space Invader, Zevs.
  • December 15, 2010: theatrical release in France Film Banksy Make the wall! speaking of the most famous street artists in the world

Techniques

Tools

Styles

These artists share an activity (illegal or not) of urban interventions. The main difference with the graffiti "traditional" (or hip-hop , as he was born in the U.S. ) is that urban artists have not consistently use the letter (as is the case in writing American) and spray tool. The goals are varied: such as the graffiti show a name, or if an image of street art posters painted by Jean Faucheur , serigraphs Ernest Pignon-Ernest , stencils Spliff Trigger, of Pixal Parazit, Epsylon Point or to yet Jef Aerosol , posters, stickers and copies of John Hamon or photographs of Antonio Gallego. Others have more political intentions as VLP (Vive La Peinture) Zeman Kojito that stick in the streets of Paris by making him say the fundamentals like: "I exist", "I stand", "I am a piece utopia "... Most just want their art to be seen by the public, and to express themselves. Others, like Cedric Bernadotte questions the public space by proposing to reclaim a place with cellophane, scotch, economic and accessible materials . In recent movements there is the mixture of graffiti and video. It is the work of an artist like Blu makes the animation from the street .

Disciplines

It is possible to combine different techniques. The stencil requires in particular the use of paint, usually spray; the poster can be the support of stencils , etc..

Gallery

Mosaic Invader at Rennes

Installation of American Mark Jenkins

Painting of Mr. Cat on a roof in Paris

Stencil to Banksy on a wall of Bristol

Dead end? By Cletus Abraham to Florence

Additions

Bibliography

  • Riout Denys, Dominique Gurdjian, Jean-Pierre Leroux, The Book of Graffiti, Paris, Syros / Alternatives, 1990, 140 pages ISBN 2867385091
  • Paul Ardenne , A pop art : Artistic creation in urban situations, intervention, participation
  • Stephanie Lemoine and Julien Terral, In situ: A panorama of urban art from 1975 to the Present, 2005 (( ISBN 978-2-86227-465-2 ))
  • Christian Hundertmark, The Art Of Rebellion: The World Of Street Art
  • Claudia Walde, Sticker City. Graffiti art paper, publishing Pyramid, 2007 (( ISBN 978-2350170657 )
  • Tarek Ben Yakhlef and Sylvain Doriath, Tonkar Paris , Editions Florent Massot, 1991 (second edition, 1992)
  • R. Klanten and M. Huebner, Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Gestalten edition, 2010

Filmography

  • Rock Fresh (2004)
  • RASH (2005), a documentary exploring the cultural value of street art and graffiti in Melbourne
  • Bomb It (2008), documentary film on graffiti and street art around the world
  • Make the wall! (2010), documendaciary ) directed by Banksy the artist Thierry Guetta

References

Notes
  1. Pixaao The presentation of the Foundation Cartier in Paris, in 2009/2010, was a highlight of the exhibition was born in the street-graffiti
  2. See Invader
  3. See the work of Blek le Rat
References
  1. Banksy interview in Le Monde, December 2010
  2. a and b Stephanie Lemoine and Julien Terral, cit, p. 157.
  3. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.120.
  4. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.121.
  5. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.115.
  6. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.113.
  7. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.114.
  8. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.122.
  9. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.117.
  10. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.124.
  11. Dionysius Riout, cit, p.123.
  12. Tristan Manco, Street Logos, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, ISBN 0-500-28469-5, 128 pages. p. 78
  13. announced at 2 (cover) it's magazine Graff # 1 ISBN 2-914714-00-9
  14. (en) reappropriations Cedric Bernadotte
  15. (en) Street art: Blu awakens the beast

See also

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