Graffitti Style Name Line Designs

Graffitti Style Name and Line Designs

Look Deeper...what is the difference

between these visual images?

A

IS Graffitti Art?

B

1.Which of these images would you describe as art?

2.What seperates art from graffiti?

3.Which image is considered "tagging"?

C

Jean-Paul Basquiat

This is an example of

graffiti style painting.

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Graffitti, what is it?

Many communities consider graffiti art to be a menace and defacing of property. The primary reason for this is that some graffiti artists post art on private property without the permission of the owners. At any rate, graffiti art is illegal in most communities and the artists usually have to run and hide from the law after leaving their mark. Graffiti art is not the same as tagging. Tagging usuallly involves only a black spray can that is used to paint initials or other tag. Usually the tagger just wants their name to be known in the area and feels a sense of pride when he/she sees the tag.

Is this a mural or graffiti?

Jean Paul Basquiat

*Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six.

* Basquiat first gained notoriety as a teenage graffiti poet and musician. By 1981, at the age of twenty, he had turned from spraying graffiti on the walls of buildings in Lower Manhattan to selling paintings in SoHo galleries, rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished artists of his generation.

*Astute collectors began buying his art, and his gallery shows sold out. Critics noted the originality of his work, its emotional depth, unique iconography, and formal strengths in color, composition, and drawing.

*By 1985, he was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as the epitome of the hot, young artist in a booming market.

*Tragically, Basquiat began using heroin and died of a drug overdose when he was just twenty-seven years old.

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What makes it art?

Graffiti art involves the use of color and may or may not contain alphabetical letters. Much of it is beautiful to behold, but is usually temporary as it is painted over by business owners. Graffiti artists have also been fined an arrested.

When a good graffiti artist paints a work of art with the permission of the owner of the property, it not only can be considered a work of art, it can be lucrative for the artist.

There is a man who decided to make his art "legitimate" and take it off the street and do it in a studio. Mike Graves used to paint graffiti on trains and buildings. Now he paints on canvas.

There is money to be had for some graffiti artists. Keith Haring, a graffiti artist in New York painted simple white chalk figures on unused advertising panels on billboards across the city. Soon many New Yorkers began admiring his work and he was invited to exhibit his work. He received international recognition. He became a wealthy man

Keith Haring