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Art or vandalism?
By adamg on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 6:40am
The Daily Free Press interviews a street artist who sometimes wheat-pastes posters, sometimes does some stenciling and sometimes just sprays her tags on things:
After she finishes, Skeczh said she runs from the site to avoid getting arrested. One street artist she knows hung around too long after spraying a piece in an alleyway and was discovered by police, she said.
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Comments
What makes her so damn
What makes her so damn special that she can deface other people's stuff? She wouldn't like it if some tattoo artist randomly decided to put their art all over her face one night without permission would she? How hard is it to simply ask for permission before displaying 'street art'?
she suck...
she sucks. Thats not street art .real street artist dont ask permission. thats the whole thrill about tagging ill pieces! being elusive is whats its about. check my crew out...http://odcrew.com/tag/boston/
Thank you. Plus if your going
Thank you. Plus if your going to interview someone at least get someone good. Check out the RUN mags that use to be put out by the now RIP Proletariat. The majority of those kids were sick. Not some wannabe hipster girl. If i see her stuff up, I'm gonna hack it.
I have the most intense urge
To Shepard Farley a picture of Barry Manilow and wheat paste it to her dorm room wall. I mean so what if she does not like it, it's my art and I have a right to be seen even if I am not in a museum. Who cares that I don't own the wall or have her permission to use it. It's ART!! If I can't find her dorm room, does anyone know her parents address?
- It goes without saying I think she is a vandal. And, not the cool East German tribe lead by King Genseric kind.
If this person's art is so
If this person's art is so important perhaps she can use it on the side of her own house. I am certain her parents would love to see their house decorated as would all of her other admirers. For the rest of us leave the city untouched.
Perhaps our "young" street art scene reflects the general opinion that "street art" is simply vandalism
What I want to know...
"JR, a street artist Skeczh said inspires communities, recently won a $100,000 grant from a TED organization in New York to help reduce poverty, according to a New York Times article published in February. JR visits slums around the world and paints colossal portraits of the people he sees, she said."
Ah, how does JR visiting "slums around the world and painting colossal portraits of the people" help alleviate their poverty? Does he give the money away that he might earn from selling these colossal pictures to those living in the slums and/or poverty?
Or does he give the colossal portraits to the people so they may use them as construction material for their houses?
Something is missing here, methinks.
Why is there "street art"?
"Gallery art" appears in galleries for no discernable reason. There is no real difference in quality between gallery art and street art. One artist might be doing ok, might even have the connections to get a teaching position, the other would starve if they had to live on the income from their art.
"Street art" usually appears on surfaces that already look bad, and which are already an assault on our sense of sight.
Art students are presented with the dream of getting seen and making enough money to live, but they are not informed about what it takes to get into the gallery world.
EM Painter, think about what you're saying...
How do you define 'gallery art'? Did you make that term up? There are plenty of starving artists who show in galleries who don't vandalize the private property of others in order to be called the hipster term 'street artists.' Do you even know any artists? I'd venture to say not.
street art in galleries
I venture to say that I know middle-class artists who have made "street art" to put in galleries.
"usually appears on surfaces that already look bad"
No idea why people a spray paint tag dripping down a wall is nicer than plain brick. Unmolested surfaces are way easier on the senses than the stuff you see on the roofs in Central Square or on the billboard area near the Chinatown park. And even worse are the people who tag fabulous granite blocks like the Longfellow Bridge or even tag up sculptures on the Esplandae.
Some street art is kinda neat, but the vast majority of it is just obnoxious clutter. My artistic sense is more offended by the crap street art than by that blank brick wall.
Who?
Ok if you know anything about Boston street art graffiti etc. you will know this girl is really bottom rung. It's so disappointing when local papers if you could call the daily free press that highlight people who actually aren't really putting in any work. I can name ten Hyde Park/Rozzie kids who are under 16 who actually tear it up and do amazing work. She's just another college kid who thinks this will get her hipster points. If your going to do a story on street art at least find someone with some talent and not just a nice website.
Done.
My way going about Street Art.
So far I always ask permission. Everyone I ask has said yes.
I always put lots of time and thought into my Street Art.
I don’t expect to make money or fame from my work.
I work 40-50 hours a week at my day job.
I try not to be antagonistic with my Street Art.
I try not to make my Street Art scream for attention
I try and make my Street Art beautifully subtitle.
If no one notices it then I have done something right.
Call me boring if you want. I think I got something good going.
blame the messenger
No particular opinion on creative street art or that obnoxious shit sprayed all over public and private property, but in regards to the level of suckitude of the art of the young lady in question: keep in mind that this is the Daily Free Press - a BU student run newspaper (and 3rd largest Boston daily? or has the Metro taken the position now?). So their highlighting a BU student as too kewl for skewl might be a tad more than biased (and/or poorly written). It's not Spray Art Illustrated.