tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post3676564671516332508..comments2023-11-22T01:09:46.040-08:00Comments on myartspace>blog: Street Art Defacement: Appropriate Media vs. BanksyBrian Skibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03707398699208090454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-67642079405302437432009-04-19T18:04:00.000-07:002009-04-19T18:04:00.000-07:00I think it was inevitable that the hysteria surrou...I think it was inevitable that the hysteria surrounding Banksy's work was going to provoke a backlash. It <I>has</I> been co-opted by advertising, and its somewhat trite 'subversion lite' motifs now feel a little weary. I'm not exactly a huge fan.<br /><br />But while I can appreciate that this is in a sense a statement of rebellion against a perceived establishment, Appropriate Media's 'The Eyechildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845640351841347933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-40318841179590344532009-04-10T11:16:00.000-07:002009-04-10T11:16:00.000-07:00Black slang and dress and music changes quickly, i...Black slang and dress and music changes quickly, it is the most adaptable culture on earth, first as English is a mutt language, and easily mutatable. Second because african culture stresses instantaneous creation, improvisation, and so is never done the same way twice. <BR/><BR/>And as soon as the white boys start using it, they are off in another direction. Always takes white folks a few years Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-16675793726782463112009-04-10T03:49:00.000-07:002009-04-10T03:49:00.000-07:00True.....Haring and Basquiat....famous for street ...True.....Haring and Basquiat....famous for street art and dang good at it. But graffiti is OLD. I mean, look back to Pompeii....those people were writing about blow jobs and money on their walls. During WWII - good propaganda posters were everywhere....Rosie the Riveter? The HipHop movement included a LOT of graffiti. The computer came along and street art could be seen from anywhere in Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-61095101716399262852009-04-10T01:50:00.000-07:002009-04-10T01:50:00.000-07:00Geez just look up the exhibit poster of Warhol and...Geez just look up the exhibit poster of Warhol and Basquiat from the mid 80s. It was a living legend versus a graf artist. An artist of color broke the doors down for mainstream acceptance of graf and street art. Not the white son of a doctor who launched his career with cash, bail money, and commercial contacts provided by daddy and daddys friends. Ole SAMO did it on his own in his early 20s andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-50778464420576448992009-04-10T01:27:00.000-07:002009-04-10T01:27:00.000-07:00What I don't like about Banksy and Fairey is that ...What I don't like about Banksy and Fairey is that they take credit for the mainstream acceptance of street art. They take credit and the media quotes them and you end up with a bunch of people buying into selective history rather than fact. The mainstream acceptance of street art is not new. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring broke those doors downs in the 80s with help from Mary Boone and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-55141889744781881522009-04-10T00:48:00.000-07:002009-04-10T00:48:00.000-07:00I think destruction CAN be progress and often, is ...I think destruction CAN be progress and often, is the purest form of progress. Yes, what App. Media is doing has some value in it.....I feel like they are ALMOST doing it right, but they haven't capitalized on their own ideas. I also think their intentions are different from why I and others feel they are on the right track. I mean, if you're going to reject the popular street artist of the Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-74616145689307462362009-04-09T18:59:00.000-07:002009-04-09T18:59:00.000-07:00Rather naive and adolescent, but literally, as wel...Rather naive and adolescent, but literally, as well as figuratively, right on target. The idea that anyone who graduates from an art college, "educated", trained like Pavlov's dogs to entertain and excuse their masters, the patrons of art, from all resposnbilties towards humanity, to glorify their eliteness, their cleverness, their specialness, is as absurd as the works they create to keep the Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-34050200663559705372009-04-09T18:15:00.000-07:002009-04-09T18:15:00.000-07:00It seems like app media is protesting banksy, for ...It seems like app media is protesting banksy, for protesting generic problems, but also gaining fame by it. So is banksy not real enough for them? is that the problem? they need to be more clear on what they are protesting, instead of just ranting.<BR/>They are kind of doing the same thing as banksy, just less aesthetically. So... are they protesting aesthetics? or pop-culture? or what?rocketRefundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039328368863016448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-50962401524171250472009-04-09T17:51:00.000-07:002009-04-09T17:51:00.000-07:00@kat what banksy is doing is kind of rebelling tow...@kat what banksy is doing is kind of rebelling towards progress. But that is what splasher and app. media are rebelling against. Apparently, just because something is now popular it is bad. The problem is, graffiti was originally about making your name, by painting your name. Banksy has accomplished that. He has also accomplished much more, by creating good art, that is free to look at, that rocketRefundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039328368863016448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-15126284197501803352009-04-09T07:41:00.000-07:002009-04-09T07:41:00.000-07:00nice get...you're quick on the drawnice get...you're quick on the drawHraghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02777822271789999167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30618809.post-14553967877021665832009-04-09T06:34:00.000-07:002009-04-09T06:34:00.000-07:00What a fantastic article with SO much to think abo...What a fantastic article with SO much to think about. I do believe they may be on to something when viewing street art today as a commercialized entity. That is the way creative work goes.....it arrives and is fresh, edgy, moving....it lingers and becomes used to advertise, sell, earn respect, gain an aura of culture......eventually the reason for its existence dies as its been destroyed by a Katnoreply@blogger.com