Street Art Overdrive
 

The topic of street art as fine art is a well-known trend in the art world today, and we have shared some of it before in mixedmedia's art appreciation thread. Specifically, check out these posts:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/2506785-post62.html

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/2516862-post69.html

That thread is currently huge and pretty heavy to load so I thought maybe it would be nice to give street art its own home.

Especially because I just came across a new artist today I'd like to share.

Her pseudonym is Miss Bugs and I hope you enjoy the work. I'd give you a running commentary but I think the work speaks for itself.

Feel free to post all awesome street art finds in here!

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/heavy1.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/humps.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/dump1.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/LeftEve.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/all3.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/watching.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebIma...ndonbridge.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/spin2.jpg

http://www.missbugs.com/000NewWebImages/Bstreet.jpg

Here is an Italian street artist named Blu:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...-bluplanet.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...mefestival.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...blubeograd.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...lubackjump.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...ubackjump2.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...-blumexico.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...tadoespaco.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...-blumilano.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...fillingood.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...tatemodern.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...1-blutate2.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...kbarcelona.jpg

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...barcelona2.jpg

For most graffitic-based artforms, tagged locales, and intriguing building murals, I am content to feature them in ngdawg's thread.


However, I thought you may enjoy a literal contribution to your thread:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx...pwi0o1_500.jpg
“Pothole Gardens” — Graphic Design student Pete Dungey installed a number of
guerrilla gardens in potholes around Brighton as part of “an ongoing series of
public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads.”

[awelshview.]

Thanks Jetée. Well, ngdawg's thread is focusing on graffiti and I am trying to focus more on street art. Maybe it would be interesting to discuss the difference - though I believe the lines between the two are blurred, I do think there is a difference.

Perhaps there is a difference, to a more informed mind, but the idiosyncrasies and sometimes pretentious categorizations that some feel compelled to instill, of trying to classify something like a mural or a commision or a rainbow-kist trolley train or a plastered tree is something that I don't try to get into much; but as I see it, unless a good majority of these street artists are being paid and compensated for their intricate works, then their artforms can technically be classified as "graffiti", regardless of whether or not traditional spray paint, or even paint at all, is used in the creations.

I'm not sure what message, if at all, I'm trying to convey here, sorry, though; I just like to say my peace about lists and fluidity (sometimes to a super-umpteenth degree, as I imagine it sounds). I do know that "street art" and "graffiti" nowadays, are quite synonymous, but with every like word and their meanings, there are contexts to which they are more apt than the others.


So, back to why I originally clicked into here: another fine example of "literal" street art to display, this time found on idle street corners in one of the world's centers for any/everything, NYC.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63...DyAvo1_500.jpg

For her street art project “Sidewalk Psychiatry,” artist/designer Candy Chang went around NYC stenciling critical questions on sidewalks to assist pedestrians in their daily self-evaluations.

Candy explains:

Pedestrians in the city often find themselves walking in deep thought. A routine trip can prompt reflections on everything from future goals to last night’s dinner conversation. As people sacrifice personal time for hectic schedules, these casual occasions for reflection become all the more important.

Sidewalk Psychiatry encourages self-evaluation in transit by posing critical questions on the pavements of New York City. Now your daily ponderings and emotional problems can be prodded and treated on the go - and, best of all, it’s free of charge!

[accidental.]

God those are amazing. The one's by Blu remind me oddly of Shel Silverstein,...

Not sure if this Blu video is somewhere else on TFP (Found-On-The-Net) but here's the link

It's in quite a few places, kramus, (Animated Shorts, Longest Thread Ever!, I <3 Graffiti!, Tilted Entertainment) and I'm not sure why, but your vimeo video is causing this page to lag and crash intermittently waiting for it to load. (I'd suggest using the youtube version instead that cellophanedeity provided)

Banksy street art samplings
 

Traversing the lines of underground criminal popularity, stemming from graffiti, trandscending to actual exemplications of introspective street art.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...kdbko1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...fu4to1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...fu4to1_500.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...6859o1_500.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...fu4to1_500.jpg

‘My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to
charge me with criminal damage any more - because theoretically my
graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it.
That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.’

— Interview with Banksy

street sign "artform"
 

http://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz147a...58kuo1_500.jpg
street fighter exit.

more artistic "street signs"
 

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...7ij1o1_500.jpg

[Wired.]

COVERED iN COLORS
 

http://i40.tinypic.com/27wucy0.jpg
Men celebrated the Festival of Colors in Barsana, India, Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
The tradition heralds the beginning of spring. -- (photo by K. K. Arora/Reuters)

Papier mâché pandas invade(d) Paris
 

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...txuuo1_500.jpg

More than a thousand papier mâché pandas have been put on display in the centre of
Paris in an effort to increase public awareness about the endangered species.

(this was about a year and a half ago, a project set upon and accomplished by the WWF to promote conservation awareness in light of new findings of the Giant Pandas' most recent population survey.)

[telegraph.]

not technically in the "street", but on a walkway entrance seems close enough to me.


http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...9o1_r1_500.jpg
L I F E meets A R T by 57mondays (Jenn)

---------- Post added at 04:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:17 PM ----------

[bigger & BETTER vantage.]

street art transcends to "park art"
 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...0o1_r1_500.jpg

Marlen Hähle’s “Aves” adds a touch of idyllic charm to the quotidian park bench
with a built-in bird feeder that sacrifices human comfort for the sake of natural whimsy.


[yankodesign.]

street art, as an art print on the streets of London village
 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2690/...a775331ac8.jpg
rude copper by mr. eightyse7en

(graffitic) Art above provided and created by 'Banksy'

[unexploredterrian.]

http://www.woostercollective.com/rroa3-thumb.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/rroa4-thumb.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/rroa1-thumb.jpg

Street art from Belgium.

street art: art in the park's garbage bin
 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/vicErPwd7...HOIJo1_500.jpg
by TheWhiteElephant

Found this on Saturday.

street art - art that can be found in and around street vendors:
 

Courtesy of TrustoCorp, be on the lookout for subversive products planted in New York City stores this weekend.

http://i44.tinypic.com/15ph849.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/11aefsy.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/104hhz6.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/culgg.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2expzc4.jpg


[arrestedmotion.]

street art: art that can be found on nature trails
 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...pwi0o1_500.jpg

Norm Magnusson’s “Decorating Nature” is an ongoing body of work aimed at
drawing attention to the natural beauty of nature by painting over it or something.


[dyt.]

street art: art that transforms a small Swiis town into a giant optical illusion
 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks...pwi0o1_500.jpg

In the summer of 2008, artist Felice Varini did this installation called “Cercle et suite d’éclats” in Vercorin, Switzerland.


[todayandtomorrow.]

I had thought I might've already featured something akin to this, but I see no mention of it.
(might've been in my own repository)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...4aeko1_500.png

EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. Using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures.


[designboom.]

also this...

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv...7x7zo1_500.jpg
EVOL’s Stencil Art Buildings

Street Art is: art in the street, moving or not
 

Celebrating the LA Premiere of his feature-length film street-art-spectacle,
Banksy adorned a few local automobiles to mark the occasion.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...fu4to1_500.jpg
Risk

The incredible true story of how the world's greatest Street Art movie was never made...

Street Art is: art smeared on the streets, accidental or not
 

http://i44.tinypic.com/dgjej6.jpg

Dan took this photo in Cardiff where he came across a box of wayward gobstoppers
that had broken open on the road. And as a result of being further destroyed by the
wheels of a few passing trucks, had become something more than just wasted treats.
It had transformed the causeway into an unexpected visual treat instead.

[serious eats.] + [dogsbody.]

Street Art is: really knowing those in your community, one neighbor and day at a time
 

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/4...337d1334_o.jpg
Dancing on the street

World-music, party and dance at the Bredeschool at Balboaplein in Amsterdam on the 1st of April.

- - -

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/4...67459d9c_o.jpg
Holland's Best: Framed

Street photo exhibition in Naarden @ The Netherlands. These creative frame photo's were made by Zsolt Horvath.

- - -

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/...6a549199_o.jpg
Spirit of the Wild

Steve Bloom is the number one animal photographer of the world. Till the end of July there is an exhibition 'Spirit of the Wild' at the Westermarkt in Amsterdam. Hundred huge photographs of animals photographed in the wild, by the zuid-Afrikaan Steve Bloom. Please visit his amazing slideshow at his website: Steve Bloom - www.stevebloom.com

[Ben.]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...pwi0o1_500.jpg
"Subway Etiquette" by Jason Shelowitz

According to Jay, he is presently in the process of posting 400 “Service Changes”-
themed Subway Etiquette posters on behalf of the “Metropolitan Etiquette Authority”
on trains throughout the city of New York.

He encourages subway patrons to keep an eye out for them and take them “before the MTA does.”


[animalNY.]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/9fkUCY02t...2x2A72_400.jpg
SCALA by FrizzText

Author's comments:
artful stairway in germany, the words on the stairs are describing the relationship between human beings: terror + love, prosecution + trust, despair + hope, revenge + kiss -- and so on... contribution to the contest 23 of the group 500x500
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"SCALA" by the artist Horst Gläsker for the project "7 Stairways", Wuppertal, Germany.
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comment by paula moya:
political art at its best! Beautiful & and meaningful in many ways. The figures holding hands in spite of their blackened faces seem to add another element of the human condition besides those written on the steps: solidarity; and the white light at the top of the steps reiterates one that is already on the steps: hope.
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1 - HANDKUSS = kissing her hand...
2 - TANZEN = to dance ...
3 - ZUNEIGUNG = attachment / sympathy
4 - VERLIEBEN = to fall in love
5 - SCHMACHTEN = longing for, to pine for
6 - VERFÜHRUNG = temptation
7 - ZUSAMMENKOMMEN = coming together


additional views:
The artist professor HORST GLÄSKER, who painted these stairs with rainbow colors, he found the title SCALA for his project in the city WUPPERTAL, Germany

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/...d617c0321d.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/...0589e1217a.jpg

Street art is: a force that should follow you, wherever you go, up or down
 

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1...0m3lo1_500.jpg
Lelo + Junkhouse

{artwork adorned on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil}

Street Art is: a force that does follow you, as you follow in turn...
 

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg

Katie Sokoler’s Pac-Man goes hunting for humans (100 points!) on the streets of Brooklyn.
(click the link or the image itself to view the gallery.)


[craftzine.]

Martin Fussenegger, Michael Haas and Julian Adenauer’s Facadeprinter
is a high-performance “distance printing robot” that uses paintballs and
pre-programmed vector art to print wall-sized images on any surface
capable of busting open the balls’ gelatine-based shell.

They are currently evaluating the demand for mass production, but, in the
meantime, they take requests.

[notcot.] + [vimeo.]

More random street art at the Riverside Arts Market, in Jax.

The following one is by graffiti artist “Sr. X” who has been hitting up the streets of Spain with all sorts of stencil based FIRE.

[interbent.] + [leasedferrari.]

street art ... simplified sights (Argentina)
 

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...02b9859a_m.jpg
rokea marpla by Chu Doma

author's comments:
Mar del Plata. Foto Pablo TMDG.

While I've already featured the "video game" one...
How to get to ..., New Jersey


I thought that the "superhero" street sign shouldn't be so far behind:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs27/f/20...insWarning.jpg
Bat Cave by ~RafkinsWarning

author's comments:
"Ahh, Batman. I have finally discovered the location to your secret lair... and what is this? It was in plain view in North Carolina all along? Somewhere near Hendersonville, no doubt! Damn you, Batman!"

street art is ... looking at ordinary things in an unoridnary fashion: longer.
 

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pwi0o1_500.jpg
seen on Bergmannstraße (avenue) in Berlin.


[spreeblick.]

(^^ click the link above to see the entire gallery and synopsis... but to get most of it, you'll need to understand rudimentary German.)

Banksy Graffiti
 

(Park Street)

author's comments:
Close up shot of Banksy's graffiti near Park St. in Bristol, UK (West End).