Shepard is the most prolific street artists in the world. Fairey grew up with many things that influenced his artworks and creativity, these were things such as; skateboarding, hip hop and punk/rock. These things influenced Fairey to produce his first well known artwork in 1989. He became very well-known and famous for his “Andre the Giant and his Posse” sticker campaign, in this artwork he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. Shepard Fairey first believed that he wouldn’t be able to go very far in this career as he was white, and didn’t come from the Bronx, but one of the things that influenced him was the movie “they live”, he was so influenced by this movie because of how much it was against advertising.
Street art, c. 2010, is a paradigm of hybridity in global visual culture, a post- postmodern genre being defined more by real-time practice than by any sense of unified theory, movement, or message. Many artists associated with the “urban art movement” don’t consider themselves “street” or “graffiti” artists, but as artists who consider the city their necessary working environment. It’s a form at once local and global, post-photographic, post-Internet, and post-medium, intentionally ephemeral but now documented almost obsessively with digital photography for the Web, constantly appropriating and remixing imagery, styles, and techniques from all possible sources. It’s a community of practice with its own learned codes, rules, hierarchies of prestige, and means of communication. Street art began as an underground, anarchic, in-your-face appropriation of public visual surfaces, and has now become a major part of visual space in many cities and a recognized art movement crossing over into the museum and gallery system.1 This chapter outlines a synthetic view of this hybrid art category that comes from my own mix of experiences and roles—as an art and media theorist in the university, as an owner of a contemporary gallery that has featured many street artists, and as a colleague of many of the artists, curators, art dealers, and art collectors who have contributed to defining street art in the past two decades.2 The street artists who have been defining the practice since the 1990s are now a major part of the larger story of contemporary art and visual culture.
It isn’t the tools or the skeletons of upper Paleolithic people but their art that has made them most familiar to us. Most extraordinary are the cave paintings, the earliest of which dates back some 36,000 years. More than a hundred cave painting sites are known, mainly from a limited area of southwestern France and adjacent northeastern Spain. The most famous site is Lascaux, found in 1940 in southwestern France by a dog and his young human companions. Most interpretation associate cave painting with magic and ritual surrounding the hunt.
Jean Michel Basquiat. Jean Michel Basquiat, though he left school at 17 was a very educated man, born to a Haitian father a Puerto Rican mother his work shows immense talent and asks a lot of questions in regard to see how we see race, despite his short carer of 6 yeas he managed in a few short years to become one of the most celebrated artists of his style of neo-expressionist in the 20th century. The artist started out as a graffiti artist with his tag SAMO, partnered with another artist he created the term SAMO which is shorting for “same old shit” this is what he and his partner referred to as the weed they smoked, the tag SAMO became synonymous for the streets of New York city from 1977 to 1980, the tag often partnered with a slogan commented on commercialism in the 20th century. in 1980 after a disagreement with his partner the tag “SAMO is dead” started to appear which signified an end of an era. He became widely popular in the summer of 1980 as he moved more into the style the art which we know him for today, his graffiti artist beginnings shows throughout his work.
According to Albert Kropp, “Two years of shells and bombs - a man won’t peel that off as easy as a sock” (87). When a man is in the war for two years, the war will become a part of him, because of the horrors and terrors he has faced in the field. Two years of the war isolates a man from civilian life, and eventually, the war will identify him, causing it to be very difficult to make the transition of war life back to civilian life. Paul reflects back to the innocence the war has taken from him as he states, “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart.
Jack the Ripper was one of the most fascinating and clever criminals of the mid-19th century. Yes, criminology wasn’t very good back in the day but he still never got caught. He sent letters that could not be traced. He may have said he wanted to be caught, but there was no way he was going to be. They way he targeted prostitutes was a very smart idea.
Retrieved August 26, 2009, from www.pubpages.unh.eda/~aeg24/pages/history Tattoos and Body Piercings 3 Tattoos and Body Piercings Tattoos and body piercings are a form of art to some, a detriment to others, and a form of expression that may take only a few hours to acquire, but hold a lifetime of regret. Tattoos originated before 3000 B.C. They were found on the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs. During those times tattoos were not known as a way of decorating one's body, they were marks that meant something that each particular person, or tribe member, had been through. It was not one nation, or culture that created the tattoo tradition; tattoos were common for a number of tribes and nations.
Photography has been noted to have been around since 1837, though it might seem that photography has not been around fairly long, it has been a great aid in documenting the most memorable moments of history thus far. Photography has been the portal which allows humanity to view events as they occurred and because of that, we have many photographs that capture moments in history that otherwise would have been left to our imagination. One of these scenes would be the “Ruins of Hamburg fire”, taken by Herman Biow. Herman was able to capture the destruction caused by a fire in 1842 using the daguerreotype process. Though limited with the inability of being able to capture the movement with the daguerreotype, Herman’s photograph allows for the one of the first documentations of a tragedy that occurred in Germany.
But now profound language can be found in every sentence from every age. Back when you could walk down the street peacefully, or even own anything valuable without it getting stolen. If rap music hasn’t existed, respect would still be in order. Ever since rap music became popular, teenagers started to feel as if they could do anything and get away with it. After a while, majority ruled and they could get away with anything and everything.
The Encyclopædia Britannica Online defines art as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others". By this definition of the word, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind: from early pre-historic art to contemporary art; however, some theories restrict the concept to modern Western societies. [4] The first and broadest sense of art is the one that has remained closest to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft." A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact, artificial, artifice, medical arts, and military arts. However, there are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymology.