Allora And Guillermo Calzadill Artist Analysis

“In contrast to government-commissioned public art, street art is illicit and subversive in nature. Therefore, most street artists, including Banksy, use pseudonyms to avoid legal prosecution for vandalism.”(Chung 27) Banksy’s street art does not focus on competing with rival artists, but focuses on engaging with a broader audience in a deeper level. He provokes his audience by deeply expressing out various social practices that helps viewers to reflect and confront certain aspects together as a community. (27) The underlying message of Banksy’s art can lead towards an active involvement of street art within the community.

By definition, graffiti is illegal. It is also considered vandalism because public or private property is intentionally destroyed, but in Alex Boyd’s blog “In Defense of Graffiti”, he clearly conveys his argument about how graffiti shows qualities of value and shouldn’t be criticized on impulse. Even though many people have seen graffiti as something to be condoned, punishable, and terrorizing, it is actually just another form of expression, communication, art, and point of view.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti done in a distinctive stenciling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

The reason I think Chiapas Paz Mexico mural at City Lights bookstore on Jack Kerouac alley is art because the artist communicates with the viewers by using art theory such as color theory, lines and shapes, and composition on his mural.

Mexican artists, more than most other artists in the Americas, exemplify the political and social obligations of artists. According to Soltes (2011), several Mexican artists of the early twentieth century were inspired by the revolutions and political unrest occurring in Mexico, which was reflected in their work. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) considered one of Mexico’s Renaissance artists, influenced by European avant-garde style, painted Zapatista Landscape (1915). This work was done as Rivera’s tribute to the Mexican revolutionary “Emiliano Zapata who had played a key role in the 1910 Mexican Revolution that had overthrown the then President Porfirio Diaz” (Soltes, L43, 4:42). Soltes (2011) describes this work: “very clearly we see a rifle; we see it's a sarape, together with a very stylized backdrop of water, mountains and sky, punctuated by a work that seems largely to emulate the synthetic cubist style of Picasso and Braque that we've earlier discussed. One has the allusion indeed, that we are looking at a collage of geometric forms made of diverse materials imposed against that background of vague sea and sky”(L43, 4:13).

Kehinde Wiley is a New York based artist whose paintings focus on the themes of empowering black men and combining classical and contemporary styles.

The article written by Kristin Quade Valdez interviewed many students at school that relate their artwork to the current events around them along with protest and rallies. I believe Kristin wrote this article for those who are in the Latino Community and this is another way of art is similar to a protest poster. The two articles are different because one speaks about the situation that only happen during the time in CharlottesVille and the other speaks about Latin American and Latino Art. The word protest relates to these articles is because art is another way to protest because it allows someone to express their

Javier Pineda is a Dominican Republic visual artist, who focuses his artwork in reflecting his sensitivity to social problems about his country, contextualizing the problems of the world to make a critique of life. This piece of art is a 3-D teenager representation made of carved and poly-chrome cedar wood, has a black headphone on the neck and skateboard under the feet, and has a 2-D head with interspersed curved lines made of charcoal.

Liz Larner creates art that has a presence and that shows instability. Her art is influenced by poetics. This is shown through the overlap in some sculptures as well as breakage in others. The art that she produces gives a sense of flow and completeness. Using instability as part of her work is something that brings a sense of change to her work as well as almost never using the same techniques. Her relation of her art work to real life shows her beliefs in the balance of reality and illusion.

Alexi Torres is an artist from Cuba. His art has an incredible type of texture that is compose of different forms with pattern, rhythm, variety, unity, repetition; like that, the lighting in his artworks is mix with his unique type of texture that makes 3D effect in his compositions. In my personal opinion, his artwork came to other level where realistic images and surrealistic/abstract texture make an excellent balance. In the first impression the paints look hyperrealistic because these has a lot of details and excellent value.

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

Many artists promote their work as a form of propaganda, for example Shepard Fairey’s website suggests his campaign is a “do it yourself counter-culture.” that also “goads viewers, using the memorable “obey” slogan to take notice of the propagandists out to bend the world to their agendas” (Fairey, 1995). He not only has images available as an open domain for personal use but he even has instructions on how and what to do to create and use stencils, providing a recipe personal use. These instructions are detailed and aim to teach as well as propagate. Mind you there are is also a warning section of the website, outright reminding participants that unsanctioned street art is illegal and destroying others art is unacceptable in within the community. He has even cunningly made a “you are under surveillance” sign see figure___. This is to remind participants that as a movement the aim is to not

The author mentions Banksy as a key example of political graffiti art. The case in Brazil is mentioned where they legalize the acts of graffiti as long as it is off the historical buildings as an example of positive changes that happened. Though the author advocates for a change in the attitude of graffiti art, he acknowledges the necessary legal boundaries. Graffiti art is difficult for me. Although I appreciate the products, and it’s ability to bring up difficult conversations in areas where conversations are not normally initiated (ruins, suburbs, low-income areas), the thought that it is illegal still lingers in the back of my head.

Page 1 of 2 ZOOM Las meninas EssayDiego Velazquez and Pablo Picasso were both great artists. Velazquez created a beautiful painting called “Las meninas”. Which means the lady in waiting. He created this painting in the year 1656.

I plan to answer the following essential question: how can art be used to depict political views? I also hope to address these other questions that follow the essential one: Do “political art” and “propaganda art” mean the same thing? How can I make meaningful art from political perspectives that are not my own? Why do certain political symbols and images spread (the pink “pussy hats”,