Artist Graffiti How to become an inspirational graffiti artist?
I've always wanted to do this; something kinda like Bansky, with encouraging words and pictures. How do I get started? Should I keep a portfolio of my drawings and show them to different places to see if I get any sponsors?
You mean Banksy ...
If you want someone to sponsor you to put graffiti art onto a wall - yes, you need to start a portfolio and gain some credibility as an artist before people start giving you money to put graffiti onto walls.
However, the thing with Banksy, Shepard Fairey and other guerrilla artists is that they put their art onto walls without being invited or paid to do that. Even as they move into the realm of being paid for what they do (Shepard Fairey redesigning the image of Mountain Dew products - other graffiti artists being paid to make more graffiti), they didn't create a portfolio and shop this out to sponsors. The work spoke for itself and they were sought after.
Decide what your purpose is and pursue that interest. If you want to do graffiti, that's what you do with all the risks (legality) involved. If you want to do inspirational murals, you need to build some credibility as an artist in order to be sponsored to legally put artwork onto walls.
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Artist Dash Snow's Art Work and Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery
Dash Snow uses the sensational story of cannibal and self-style messiah Daniel Rakowitz as an inspiration for his installation. Drug den accoutrements of cheap leather sofa, potted plant, satanic medallion, and snake skin boots are compiled in shrine-like effigy, rendering a portrait of a monster as a sad, pathetic, ridiculous cliché. Piled in the well-worn seat of pot-head immobility, these relics of evil are transformed to impotent and empty mementos. Accompanied by a newspaper clipping detailing bizarre court revelations, Snow’s installation examines the fine line between banality, insanity, and sheer terror.
Dash Snow photography becomes a way of engaging with environment and memory. Each snapshot captures a place, time, and emotion, freeze-framing the individual components of everyday experience, mapping out the compilation of an identity. Using a Polaroid camera for its instantaneous results and association as keep-sakes, the familiar format of Snow’s photos replicates the sentiments of his images: cheap, disposable, and plebian mementos become humble evidence of discarded beauty.
Snow’s photographs explore personal existence as a periphery to globalised culture. Presenting an unabridged account of his marginalised lifestyle, Snow’s often uncomfortable images paint an intimate portrait where topical issues such as sex, drugs, poverty, and anti-social behaviour are confronted from a frank position of personal participation. Translated through the generic quality of his medium, Snow’s photos convey the disoriented fragments of memory as voyeuristic observation, conceiving the experience of ‘self’ as a bi-product of mass media dissociation.
Picturing the underbelly of contemporary culture, Snow distances his images with cinematic veritas. Graffiti, ironically broken signage, seedy hotel sex romps, and instances of human despair don’t evoke empathy, but rather suggest a poetic affirmation of humanity and against-the-odds survivalism.
Dash Snow’s Untitled (Thong) reworks imagery of porn, violence, and glamour into a totem of faded power. Recalling the optimistic ideology of Suprematist design, Snow’s collage presents a futuristic icon from degenerate emblems. Mounted on a mundane wall paper background, photocopied snippets of syringes, gems, rodents, machine parts and bottoms merge as an abstracted cyborg figure, an unsavoury goddess of underclass bravura.
Read Entire Article about USA Artist Dash Snow paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dash_snow.htm
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Dash Snow uses the sensational story of cannibal and self-style messiah Daniel Rakowitz as an inspiration for his installation. Drug den accoutrements of cheap leather sofa, potted plant, satanic medallion, and snake skin boots are compiled in shrine-like effigy, rendering a portrait of a monster as a sad, pathetic, ridiculous cliché. Piled in the well-worn seat of pot-head immobility, these relics of evil are transformed to impotent and empty mementos. Accompanied by a newspaper clipping detailing bizarre court revelations, Snow’s installation examines the fine line between banality, insanity, and sheer terror.
Dash Snow photography becomes a way of engaging with environment and memory. Each snapshot captures a place, time, and emotion, freeze-framing the individual components of everyday experience, mapping out the compilation of an identity. Using a Polaroid camera for its instantaneous results and association as keep-sakes, the familiar format of Snow’s photos replicates the sentiments of his images: cheap, disposable, and plebian mementos become humble evidence of discarded beauty.
Snow’s photographs explore personal existence as a periphery to globalised culture. Presenting an unabridged account of his marginalised lifestyle, Snow’s often uncomfortable images paint an intimate portrait where topical issues such as sex, drugs, poverty, and anti-social behaviour are confronted from a frank position of personal participation. Translated through the generic quality of his medium, Snow’s photos convey the disoriented fragments of memory as voyeuristic observation, conceiving the experience of ‘self’ as a bi-product of mass media dissociation.
Picturing the underbelly of contemporary culture, Snow distances his images with cinematic veritas. Graffiti, ironically broken signage, seedy hotel sex romps, and instances of human despair don’t evoke empathy, but rather suggest a poetic affirmation of humanity and against-the-odds survivalism.
Dash Snow’s Untitled (Thong) reworks imagery of porn, violence, and glamour into a totem of faded power. Recalling the optimistic ideology of Suprematist design, Snow’s collage presents a futuristic icon from degenerate emblems. Mounted on a mundane wall paper background, photocopied snippets of syringes, gems, rodents, machine parts and bottoms merge as an abstracted cyborg figure, an unsavoury goddess of underclass bravura.
Read Entire Article about USA Artist Dash Snow paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dash_snow.htm
In reference to the original questions about creating an art scene, I've been thinking about something Kurt wrote on Madeleine's blog. Paraphrased, Kurt mentioned his experience with gallery owner's in other cities (from established art markets) were very apprehensive about investing time/money into an artist living outside that city (correct me if I'm wrong, Kurt). That attitude does make since, after all, they got a BUSINESS to run.
I've been studying the street art scene for a while. Some of the work is really tight, other work not so much so… but what is neat is that they have built thier community heavily on the internet, and the galleries representing such folk appear far more willing to invest in artists well outside thier cities. I think one reason the galleries are more comfortable is because of the extremely tight internet community (these artist come with a built in audience). Some artist have established careers in which galleries play a relatively some part (Sheppard Fairey a successful example).
It intrigues me that one street artist (regardless of age, skill, place in life) can put up a wheatpast in an unnamed alley in whatever city, and a few hours later, 100,000 people see it on the net word wide. Now that’s exposure.
I suppose these folks are taking that path that for three reasons: they are young and don't know no better, the need for anonymity, and they often live countries apart.
Either way, if it's all Greek to you, take a look at http://www.woostercollective.com, it's link to streetsy, or just Google STENCIL STREET ARTIST GRAFFITI… or artist Swoon, ElbowToe, Armsrock, Herakut, London Police, Logan Hicks, etc.
I’m not proposing to go and glue/spraypaint/stencil up downtown, but these folks got something going for them. After all, I’m blogging about them, they ain’t blogging about me…..
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In reference to the original questions about creating an art scene, I've been thinking about something Kurt wrote on Madeleine's blog. Paraphrased, Kurt mentioned his experience with gallery owner's in other cities (from established art markets) were very apprehensive about investing time/money into an artist living outside that city (correct me if I'm wrong, Kurt). That attitude does make since, after all, they got a BUSINESS to run.
I've been studying the street art scene for a while. Some of the work is really tight, other work not so much so… but what is neat is that they have built thier community heavily on the internet, and the galleries representing such folk appear far more willing to invest in artists well outside thier cities. I think one reason the galleries are more comfortable is because of the extremely tight internet community (these artist come with a built in audience). Some artist have established careers in which galleries play a relatively some part (Sheppard Fairey a successful example).
It intrigues me that one street artist (regardless of age, skill, place in life) can put up a wheatpast in an unnamed alley in whatever city, and a few hours later, 100,000 people see it on the net word wide. Now that’s exposure.
I suppose these folks are taking that path that for three reasons: they are young and don't know no better, the need for anonymity, and they often live countries apart.
Either way, if it's all Greek to you, take a look at http://www.woostercollective.com, it's link to streetsy, or just Google STENCIL STREET ARTIST GRAFFITI… or artist Swoon, ElbowToe, Armsrock, Herakut, London Police, Logan Hicks, etc.
I’m not proposing to go and glue/spraypaint/stencil up downtown, but these folks got something going for them. After all, I’m blogging about them, they ain’t blogging about me…..