Word: grafitti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such candidate for new critical acclaim is commercial art, graffiti is the democratic underdog. It presents itself on a daily basis to almost anyone living in a city. Of course there are reasons why Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) curators don't run down to the grafitti streets with open arms. Graffiti is one of the most objectionable forms of art, as it can be difficult to distinguish between creativity and malicious vandalism...
...graffiti is art. Part of the complexity of the question "is graffiti art" stems from the illegal nature of its creation. The oldest artwork in the world, cave paintings such as those found in Lascaux, France, could be considered a form of graffiti. But more importantly, Lascaux, like grafitti, was someone's attempt to leave their mark, and in the debate over the merits of grafitti, such a point seems more important than legalities. Additionally grafitti is also a sign of anger, resentment, and a sort of liberation in defying society's laws. The creation of graffiti is as much...
...also quotes ethnologist Robert Colombo as saying, "After reading kilometers of walls one realizes that, whatever its meaning, here is what it means to be human." Can we look past the broken laws and unsightly walls to see what's trying to be said? The greatest challenge of appreciating grafitti is allowing it to challenge the way the art world works...
...music may be undergoing just such a transformation. In truth, hip hop has certainly had constitutive elements: emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing and grafitti art. Yet as a movement, hip hop has traversed more than 20 years since a particular voiceless community became local cultural creators. At the end of the '90s the industry of hip hop is a multi-billion dollar venture, one that reaches countless individuals in communites all over the place through a diversity of media. The stereotype of an East/West coast dichotomy is not only misplaced, it is further subverted by the fact that there...
...movie. Basquiat had numerous romantic relationships with men, and was fairly out about them. In fact, Basquiat's father's discovery of his son's bisexuality was likely one of the primary reasons Basquiat left home as a young teenager, which lead to his introduction to the underground grafitti culture of the early 1980s. And, where Schnabel's film depicts Andy Warhol as Basquiat's primary connection to the whorl of fame and fortune, Hoban tells us that Basquiat worked early in his career with Keith Haring, and briefly dated Madonna. Warhol does not appear as a major figure...