more street activism/vandalism

In the spirit of Bansky Stained Glass Post-Pixelators is an anonymous attempt to use street art against the consumerism of North America. Another New yorker, he has decided to create stencils that have thin white paper with images, which he puts up in front of the advertising screen Tvs that are located on the streets. The light from the screen is see-through the white paper, creating a stained-glass effect. This video below shows the different New York sunsets he has put on top of the commercials:

New York Sunsets
envoyé par posterchild. - Films courts et animations.

Here's another previous project where the stencil shows a picture of Jesus:




Needless to say, he'd get into a lot of trouble if found. Fun, fun 'vandalism'.

mom & popism

Mom & Popism is inspired by a fairly recent book called Storefront: The disappearing face of new york. This exhibition was crated by various contributing artists and it is a take on the mom&pop shops that are slowly disappearing due to the large, ambitious but impoersonal corporations that reign in this harsh economic weather.





Each artist leaves his or her own style in each fabricated storefront, just like these mom&pop shops left their mark on each citizen of new york. It seems like grafitti artists and mom&pop shops hold the same outcome: to connect with the citizens surrounding them, creating a sense of a collective community and a more familial urban landscape.

more blu

Here's another stop-motion animation video by street artists BLU(read post "MUTO") and with the help of David Ellis. This time they chose to remain inside an abandoned building.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

sidewalk cracks

Subtle yet original by photographer and street artist Martin Sobey.





The New York based artist works for a street art collective called Wooster Collective. His style is subtle and his work blends in with the city thus making it a part of it. It is colorful and non-threatening which is probably why 99 percent of people who see it support it.

edgar mueller

Most of you have probably seen these pictures as the first things that show up on a Google image search of "street art". These fun optical illusions are made by German street artist Edgar Mueller. He has street painted all over Eastern and Western Europe, and also in Canada, for different festivals and events.

He uses a trompe de l'oeil style that at first glance confuses passerbys, but then entertains them as the street becomes a playground whith which they can interact creating their own illusions.



They can only be seen from one perspective, which makes the work much harder to plan and successfully create while also demanding an effort from the viewer to fully appreaciate the picture rather than just simply presenting it on the asphalt. Here's two perspectives of one he made for Jaw Moose in Canada:



+ time-transition video:


Montreal should definitely think about inviting him for a summer.

new bookeh

Awesome book, and it'S now MINE :D :



It doesn't only have artists' profiles, it has interviews with the most prominent and even has section for the different styles of street art. Best book I've ever bought.

MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

As the artists from BLU choose to use stop-motion animation, they decide that they will erase every drawing after it's snapshotted. It is temporary street art, thus making it something we can only experience fully online, once it has already been edited and posted: Its whole reason of existence is to be viewed once it has disappeared.

Made in Argentina, this new aesthetic style of the hand-drawn bizarre can be seen all over like in the art of Chad Van Gallen:



Enjoy.

Montreal: Roadsworth

One of the reasons I love living in Montreal: I get to see Roadsworth art a lot.


Dandelions, 2005.

The native Montrealer, who's real name is Peter Gibson, his nickname directly references Andy Golsworthy(the name of this blog 'Boldy Goldy' also references him). He says in his 2008 documentary that he was inspired by the way Goldsworthy created his art pieces in a way in which they were harmony with their surroundings. Roadsworth's pieces seems to accomplish the same in a more urban setting. They also resemble Banksy's work when it comes to social and political significance.



I saw his work at last year's Biennale: OPEN CULTURE. Although it was indoors, it was a nice reminiscence on how catholic school used to be prominent in Quebec a few decades ago. He's also worked overseas in the Tour de France 2007.


A clip from his documentary 'Roadsworth: Crossing the Line':

Bansky

I felt like I needed to start at the beginning. So I'll start with a pioneer.

Banksy is now #1 of contemporary street art. Controversy definetly has arisen from his anynonimity and the disagreement between defining his work as vandalism or art. Pioneer of stencil street art, his name is the most recognized in this style.
His real name is not known(it was believed to be Robin Banks, but it's not proven), and he does street art mainly in London, UK.
He's had legal trouble because he once walked into the Louvre in Paris in 2004 and posted his own version of the Mona Lisa with a smiley face.

A 'vandalized' Bansky:


He also created his own version of Stonege in June 2007 with portable toilets at Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK:


Now he does work all over the world. I think the youth of London can relate very well to the anger of his works. It certaintly arises a feeling for some kind of angry activism that maybe it's dormant right now in our generation. It's like they're almost trying to wake up a regular morning walker from the apathy towards life that they've developed throughout the years. All I can say is that they're working for me. I'm wide awake.

first post

A little assignment for class. All about the new street art phenomena of the 80's,
90's, and now.

Chile(my home country) has many talented graffiti artists.The picture in the banner above was taken in the city of Valparaiso, a popular beach location for tourists(no, i didn't take it...). I believe the reason why the works from Chile are so detailed and meticulous is because the police don't really drive around at night that much, so artists have whole nights and more to do these whole walls.
Chile graffiti is the reason why I'm now interested in the whole urban style of street art. I'll post some of my pictures from Chile soon, but for now, have some from Chilean graffiti art blog KELP(Sorry, site's only in Spanish).

Here's on from Valparaiso again:


This one is from Santiago(near where I used to live!):