I only use affiliate links for products we use and love. Note Some links in this post may be affiliate links. This morning our canvas walls are virtually blank again! Now I’m wondering if we should keep using art materials that will wash away (for the ever-changing outdoor art) or if I should bring out the permanent markers and acrylic paint. During the night we had a very heavy rainstorm. Update: I drafted this blog post last night before bed. I think the color may fade with time, sun, and rain which will just be a good excuse to have more spray painting sessions from time to time. But I like the added color and LOVE the idea of having huge outdoor art canvases in our yard. My friend Marin said something about a likeness to ’80s splatter-painted jeans which I tried not to hear. They took their job seriously (and only occasionally sprayed each other). So I bought some spray bottles at the dollar store, filled them with diluted liquid watercolors, and invited friends and neighbors over to spray paint them with Maia. I could have kept them as a nice, plain background, but the idea from the beginning was to use them as outdoor art canvases. Score! We cut them to the right length, added a hem and gromets, and they were good to go. These ones are especially made for stairs (4 feet wide with metal stabilizers at each side) and happened to be on clearance at Home Depot. The canvas walls are made from canvas painter’s drop cloths. And, we put up some canvas patio walls to create a more intimate patio space and also to hide an ugly chain link fence and an ugly bare clay slope. The old studio table is now both our patio dining table and our outdoor art table. Kobe Bryant Wall Art Basketball Player Canvas Wall Art Painting Sports Posters Artwork Home Decor for Basketball Fan Memorabilia Gifts Living Room Bedroom Boy Girl Gifts Decoration Wall Art. So this spring we looked at the space again and decided on a quick and inexpensive patio transformation. But, well, it never happened for various reasons.
The carport collapsed two winters ago and last spring we decided to put in beautiful stone terracing, a flagstone patio, a nice dining set (etc, etc…) in it’s place. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.We’ve been working on turning a former carport pad into a patio and outdoor art space. Works by Banksy have been sold for over £100,000. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have achieved international fame by producing complex works with stencils, often making political or humorous points. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before becoming a respected artist in the ’80s. ‘Your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.’ On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities more vibrant.įor decades graffiti has been a springboard to international fame for a few. ‘I have a message for the graffiti vandals out there,’ he said recently. Peter Vallone, a New York city councillor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone else’s property it becomes a crime. The debate over whether graffiti is art or vandalism is still going on. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings or canvases. But at the same time that it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. They worked in groups called ‘crews’, and called what they did ‘writing’ – the term ‘graffiti’ was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. In the early days, the ‘taggers’ were part of street gangs who were concerned with marking their territory. In the mid seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as ‘masterpieces’. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or ‘tags’, on buildings all over the city.
Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago.
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