Urban Art Association

Street Art Evolution, by graffuturism on Jan 25, 2014 0:26:43 GMT 1,

Jan 22, 2014 19:33:04 GMT 1 Icesay said:

Jan 22, 2014 17:48:30 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

You mean people like Aryz and Sainer, etc?
I love it... but I'm less keen to have it framed in my house.
I guess because it does just feel like illustration and less like "art"... it's pretty, but I'm not feeling any deeper meaning.

Yes whilst i like dran, or os gemeos the images seem childlike....the whole childhood memories / childlike images thing doesnt seem to interest me for very long whereas a conor harrington or mr jago do.

Most graffiti artists have a illustrative influence right away coming from that background. Painting characters was one of the only options for these artists. Artists like Barry Mcgee who already had a character style traveled to brasil for a residency i believe and met the twins that further established this aesthetic. Its an honest aesthetic with roots in graffiti. Most of the graffiti artists before the recent move into more muralist styles had painted with other graffiti artists and painted in a more illustrative style.

Street Art on the other hand has its own influences outside graffiti and thus a different aesthetic altogether. More commercial, pop influences, and so forth. There werent many painterly graffiti artists besides portrait artists like Part2, and a handful of others that painted a realist style. The use of a spray can also has developed a more illustrative style much like a airbrush is for commercial illustration. All these are reasons why in my opinion we still have artists painting how they have always painted. Even Jago's early work was illustrative and based off characters, Conor also started as a graffiti artist but seemed to paint more letters and when he fused the 2 together he kept the aesthetics separate but contrasting. He has done a great job of that and continues to, but most of these artists have all evolved and continue to evolve.

I appreciate the more refined painters also but I like to see some history in their mark, or their figures. To me for an artist to paint only refined creates a disconnect from his history and the artist chooses to move backwards toward a historical style, instead of working in todays post-historical aesthetics.

Jan 22, 2014 19:33:04 GMT 1 Icesay said:

Jan 22, 2014 17:48:30 GMT 1 Happy Shopper said:

You mean people like Aryz and Sainer, etc?
I love it... but I'm less keen to have it framed in my house.
I guess because it does just feel like illustration and less like "art"... it's pretty, but I'm not feeling any deeper meaning.

Yes whilst i like dran, or os gemeos the images seem childlike....the whole childhood memories / childlike images thing doesnt seem to interest me for very long whereas a conor harrington or mr jago do.

Most graffiti artists have a illustrative influence right away coming from that background. Painting characters was one of the only options for these artists. Artists like Barry Mcgee who already had a character style traveled to brasil for a residency i believe and met the twins that further established this aesthetic. Its an honest aesthetic with roots in graffiti. Most of the graffiti artists before the recent move into more muralist styles had painted with other graffiti artists and painted in a more illustrative style.

Street Art on the other hand has its own influences outside graffiti and thus a different aesthetic altogether. More commercial, pop influences, and so forth. There werent many painterly graffiti artists besides portrait artists like Part2, and a handful of others that painted a realist style. The use of a spray can also has developed a more illustrative style much like a airbrush is for commercial illustration. All these are reasons why in my opinion we still have artists painting how they have always painted. Even Jago's early work was illustrative and based off characters, Conor also started as a graffiti artist but seemed to paint more letters and when he fused the 2 together he kept the aesthetics separate but contrasting. He has done a great job of that and continues to, but most of these artists have all evolved and continue to evolve.

I appreciate the more refined painters also but I like to see some history in their mark, or their figures. To me for an artist to paint only refined creates a disconnect from his history and the artist chooses to move backwards toward a historical style, instead of working in todays post-historical aesthetics.