graffiti - public art

decides2dream · October 2006

i LOVE both....adds so much and says so much about a city and it's people. i'll start with some graffiti found during my travels:

prague

pistoia, italy

bologna, italy

pistoia, italy

(UK)_foxymop · October 2006

Excellent photos (as always

)

love the third pic from Prague.. as they say, a picture paints a thousand words.

It looks like a Banksy .. here's a couple of my favourites you might like:

Jeremy1012 · October 2006

banksy is brilliant. he did a brilliant painting on the segregation wall in israel

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V V · October 2006

i love Banksy too

yes it is public art i do likes it

casper leblanc · October 2006

decides2dream wrote:

i LOVE both....adds so much and says so much about a city and it's people.

True, but not always: the line between street art and pure vandalism is a very, very thin one.

decides2dream · October 2006

pearlwax wrote:

True, but not always: the line between street art and pure vandalism is a very, very thin one.

i've already said as much elsewhere...but figured i'd say it here too. thus why i entitled it graffiti AND public art, b/c yes...i AM aware graffiti CAN be public art, and it CAN be vandalism...whereas public art is just that, public art. either way, graffiti, art or vandalism, and all forms of public art.....STILL all say something about a city and it's people.

and for that, i appreciate it all.

in regards to banksy....love his work!

here's another from prague :

and hows about some christo in NYC circa february 2005? :

and, a little public sculpture in pistoia, italy :

moeaholic · October 2006

i remember seeing those pictures of the segregation wall a few months ago. those are neat.

as far as the gates in central park..........too artsy-fartsy for me. i didn't see it in person, but had no urge to.

stateofloventrust12 · October 2006

one word

beautiful

decides2dream · October 2006

moeaholic wrote:

i remember seeing those pictures of the segregation wall a few months ago. those are neat.

as far as the gates in central park..........too artsy-fartsy for me. i didn't see it in person, but had no urge to.

i did too...very cool.

in regards to the gates, first and foremost..to each his/her own. that said, they most definitely are meant to be *experienced*...true installation art is meant for such, not just to be seen...and certainly not just pictures. i LOVED them....but i DID see/experience them in person...and what a WORLD of difference. but, as i said...we all our entitled to our own opinions...and not all art is going to light a firs of interest for each of us...and that's cool.

anyway, i would REALLY love to see more examples posted by others..in their own towns, cities...favorite examples...etc. share!

PaperPlates · November 2006

Kushikushun · November 2006

decides2dream wrote:

and hows about some christo in NYC circa february 2005? :

I love Christo!!! Did lessons on him last year and they kids were very impressed. For me, he explains what art is about simply through his art...

decides2dream · January 2007

*bump*

Obi Once · February 2007

:cool:

D2D you know I love graff, so it's very nice to see some of Prague's. Last time I was there I was amazed how much the scene was booming over there, but I was not around long enhough to make something myself, alltho I did in 1997.

This is the fruit of my labour on a sunny saturday afternoon:

(The green piece is mine)

civ_eng_girl · June 2007

Just a little bump for Public Art!

Toronto has a festival on right now called Luminato. To celebrate, some public art has been installed in buildings throughout downtown. My sister and I went to have a look at a couple of them.

"Le Grand Mobile" was pretty spectacular!
http://www.luminato.com/img/events/arts_floatingartworks.jpg

also... down at the harbourfront, just at the foot of the CN tower, they have set up 20 searchlights, each one controlled by a device that reads peoples' pulse.... so you go up, grab the 'handles', and the searchlight flashes to the beat of your pulse! so, there are 20 peoples' pulses, all criss-crossing above the harbourfront.... it was incredible! and so much fun! my sister kept trying to run around in circles enough to get her heartrate up! (but ended up feeling pretty silly about it....lol)

The event is called PULSEfront, and you can read about it here...
http://www.luminato.com/english/list.php?eid=20182

JOEJOEJOE · June 2007

I saw the Banksy exhibit in L.A. last summer. It was very cool in the sense that they didn't announce the actual location...you had to do some detective work!

The location was a very non-descript warehouse space in an industrial area of downtown L.A.

justam · June 2007

Dreamn' I didn't see this thread before. I like your pictures.

decides2dream · November 2007

been awhile, and been meaning to post in here for AGES! i took a TON of graffitti/public art pics this last eurotour, especially in the netherlands, and i finally uploaded all the graffitti pics to my photobucket. so little by little, i'll start to post em....5 images at a time of course with all the image *limitations*

starting off with some images from amsterdam, here goes!

decides2dream · November 2007

Corso · November 2007

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

chiquimonkey · November 2007

i keep forgetting to check in here, i missed this thread. love it! and i'm a huge fan of banksy, i want his book 'wall and piece' for xmas

Obi Once · November 2007

Thanks for posting! Really enjoy your photography, and it's combined with my favorite art (made with paint).

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