Posts tagged with graffiti
July 31, 2009 | New Art | by Zolton 
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Brooklyn-born and based, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the first African American artist to be feted internationally for his dynamic and exciting street-art style, which mixed elements of inner-city graffiti with vibrant figurative modernism. Read more
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July 30, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Richmond-based graffiti artist Chip7 has a style that is at once urban and also vaguely tribal with their crude lines and rich patterns. Read more
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January 17, 2009 | New Art | by Shepard Fairey |
Not only is the scale of the things Italian street artist Blu is doing on the street, impressive — he does these huge pieces with just rollers with long extensions — even more amazing is how quickly he works. If you haven’t seen the stop motion animation he did, you should. It’s an animation on the walls of a street in which he’s painting, then buffing, then painting it again, with a succession of characters moving all around. It’s just insane how much work it takes to create these things. I don’t think anyone has ever done anything like it. Read more
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January 16, 2009 | New Art | by Shepard Fairey |
My background is in street art and there are a lot of people historically who I’ve really liked. But in terms of new people, I particularly love the work of Brooklyn artist Judith Supine. It’s a surreal combination of old engraving art mixed with hand-drawn and painted images. He does paste up posters, but they’re not just square, they’re cut-out shapes of these interesting looking characters. The closest thing I could compare it to are the Monty Python animations. Read more
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January 13, 2009 | Video | 
by Casper Johansson |
Street art has always been a place for creative freedom. Due to its very nature it’s also a maverick art, with the varying and diverse styles found being part of its appeal. From Shoreditch in London where works by the likes of Banksy, Invader and Sweet Toof live side-by-side – enlivening the streets with their subversive and eye catching design, to Berlin, where they’ve turned the notion of graffiti on its head by using jet sprays with stencils to clean parts of a dirty wall, producing a new piece of art. Being displayed on the streets that are so familiar to us, it often remains hidden, as our familiarity blinds us to it. Read more
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January 5, 2009 | New Art | by Kira Heuer |
Graffiti artist Maximillian Wiedemann’s work explores the dependent relationship between pop culture, media and consumerism, positioning it neatly under the street meets luxury umbrella. Giving reverence to Andy Warhol with regards to his salute to the world of the aesthetically divine, he plays with the game of hype, having a little fun with sensationalism, yet keeping a respect for its necessity due to the outlandish world we live in today. His sense of humor is perfect for our ambiguous times, with quotes such as ‘The better you look, the more you see’, and my favourite, ‘Closer to God in Heels’, paralleling it all by bringing the up-and-coming models of our time to his canvas. He takes something iconic and flip-flops it. Read more
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March 30, 2008 | New Art | by Jenn Porreca |
Up to date graffiti websites are hard to come by, and even more so, good graffiti websites of Bay area heroes. Recently I came across the flickr site of Funk and Jazz. He’s got multiple photo sets, but most impressive is his collection of over 4,000 images of Bay Area street art. Read more
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March 28, 2008 | New Events | by Casper Johansson |
The work of Californian artist Joe Koller channels his two major influences: surfing and the arts. His inspiration from the ocean is a constant undercurrent in his photographs of nature, urban landscapes, and travel shots. After a few group shows in Southern and Northern California over the past two years, he’ll be launching his first solo show — Adrfit — at San Francisco’s Space Gallery on April 27th. Read more
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March 6, 2008 | New Art | by Kate Suters |
That street art has defined our cities as a myriad of individual cultures has nothing to do with most people’s knee-jerk reaction to it. Despite negative media coverage, most people do enjoy the randomness and intricacies of street art. It’s only when the ingenuity wears off and our cityscapes are vandalised with meaningless second-rate versions — commercial and otherwise — that we tend to get bored or angry at its appearance. How fitting then that culture commentator, Francesca Gavin, has taken on the task of documenting the latest talents in street art in her book Street Renegades: New Underground Art. Read more
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February 6, 2008 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
Our friends over at the street art and design site, Feed Me Cool Shit have a revealing interview up with UK artist Sickboy, who talks about his earliest days on the streets. Read more
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February 6, 2008 | New Art | by Julia Hennock |
‘Romantic street painting’ or ‘renaissance graffiti’? Joshua Petker spent years as a graffiti artist in California and Europe before painting portraits of ladies. But he hasn’t hung up his hoodie in favour of crustless cucumber sandwiches just yet. His work reeks of punk, with explosions of brash colours and bloody, textured details. And he often uses second-hand canvases, giving each piece a hidden history. [see also the work of Canadian artist, Dan Ryan]
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July 11, 2007 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
Sune Ehlers is Planet Earth’s finest doodler. We interviewed him recently: Do you compulsively doodle? ‘Yes. At fourteen my dad brought me to see a doctor and I was diagnosed with duudlenza: a compulsion to mess up all surfaces with Biros’. Read more
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We’ve all seen those iconic Jesus Christ, Osama Bin Laden, Queen Elizabeth II and the suicide bomber CUPCO dolls floating around the world. Now Western Australia’s ingenious artist Luke Temby, aka CUPCO, has invited 100 international artists to showcase their own creative interpretation of CUPCO dolls here in Australia. The doll exhibition will open at the Damien Minton Gallery in Redfern, Sydney on December 16 and carry on until December 22. All 100 dolls will be on sale and the proceeds will help out our Congolese sisters and children affected by war. If you can’t hold out until the party launch, check out the dolls on Temby’s FlickR page.
Fresh fruit? Yes please! Never mind that I had just finished a cottage pie as big as my face. I was going to have a punnet of those raspberries. I couldn’t help myself. Really. They were just sitting so pretty alongside the luscious apples and pears lining the rickety stalls of London’s Soho Fruit Markets, I just couldn’t restrain myself. And it seemed that I wasn’t the only one. Read more
I recently bought a 1960 Oyster Perpetual Datejust and I love it. Read more
Oh man, the work of New York based artist Inka Essenhigh is so good it makes my eyes water. Read more
Grace is part of a new series of books by author Dale Cusack. The story chronicles the lives of Grace and her feline companion Boot in their struggle to fight the evil Drawl and the cover illustration was done by Auckland-based artist, and Lost At E Minor contributor, Dennis Juan Ma. We asked him about what shaped the colour choices for the piece: ‘I wanted to create a mystery world within the reality. I wanted the colour to encourage readers to stimulate their imagination. I illustrated the covers with a classical Japanese wood block look to show the oriental flavour of the cat’s world. And it just happens that I’m a wood block art fan’. Read more
I remember the first time I saw a Mark Rothko piece at the Art Institute in Chicago. I’d only seen reproductions until that point, and I never understood why people considered the late painter so important. Read more
The underground music scene in Beijing produces a lot of derivative and half-assed bands, but PK14 are great by any standards. Read more
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Karen Caldicott’s clay head models
British born, New York-based model maker Karen Caldicott has been making clay heads for all major US publications over the last decade. Read more
Scanners’ new single Salvation
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.
T-post: the world’s first wearable magazine
So here’s the scoop. Every six weeks, T-post subscribers get a new t shirt issue in the mail, with a news story on the inside and an artist interpretation of that story on the front. Yes, we agree. It’s clever, clever. Read more
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
The Pasta and I print belongs to New York illustrator Fernanda Cohen’s personal series, Food Affair, which focuses on her passion for food and love. The archival pigment print is available for $75 through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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