Word: graffitist
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...After "recruiting" some prolific vandals, who had been caught in the act, the workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...
...Staraya Ploshchad, strollers stare in wonder at the blank windows and locked doors of the vast gray building that is the headquarters of the vanishing Soviet Communist Party. Laughter and cheers erupt as a 5-year-old boy, encouraged by his father, urinates on the wall. A graffitist has scrawled DOSHLI (We've come this far) -- the slogan of Soviet soldiers fighting to victory over Germany in World...
...probably the world's most famous graffitist, so there is poetic -- and possibly political -- justice in the fact that Keith Haring would turn up writing on the world's most infamous wall. He was in West Berlin last week to dab a chain of his cartoon-like figures on a 100-yd. stretch of the Berlin Wall next to Checkpoint Charlie. Invited by the 13th of August Working Group, which operates the West German Wall Museum, Haring chose red, yellow and black tones because the colors are found in both countries' flags and symbolize the "coming together...
...mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned. In one sense, the body of Marie-Thérèse, curled up in Nude Asleep in a Landscape, 1934, is seen as a graffitist might see it?a lilac-toned pink blob, twisted and curled to show its openings, nipples and navel, the body recomposed in terms of its sexual signs. It is a hieroglyph for arousal, tumescence in paint. Yet it is something more. For in these images of Marie-Thérèse, Picasso demonstrated...
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