Over the past few years the street artist known as Bansky has made a reputation of political

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.

“I'll paint all of us doing what we used to-dancing and running and fighting and playing and laughing and being kids. I’ll leave the outside walls dull and grey, stenciled with a single word. I’ll call the whole thing Withstanding on a Perilous Planet” (Austen 171). The tent represents how Max understands that the government treats the children unfairly for simply being themselves, the dull grey outside demonstrates how the children must act or else they face consequences and the inside which is full of color and excitement represents the children's true feeling, the government discriminates the children for having those thoughts inside their heads but only the outside of the children are different, on the inside they still want to be themselves. The tent also symbolizes an act of rebellion towards the discriminatory society, this is Max’s method to fight against the discrimination which applies to the children as well as creating an announcement to the rest of the world.The second symbol is the piece of art Max drew during the climax of the story. Max realizes the government will not let children be themselves and they force kids to not be individuals so Max creates and symbol out of graffiti. This symbol represents how kids actually act, the art piece did not follow a sketch or a plan, Max lets this imagination lose symbolizing changing how you want children to act will not change how you make them think. The pieces of art Max creates represents how society views the children unfairly but they also represent rebellion against the discriminatory government because Max does not believe in discrimination he believes everyone should have the right to have their own

People often have different opinions and views toward stories or news articles they have read. My Parents killed Santa and Nobody Cared (Santa) by Dakshana Bascaramurty is an essay that tells the story of how a child was shocked to learn from the parents that Santa was unreal and did not exist. On the other hand, In Defense against Graffiti (Graffiti) by Alex Boyd discusses the positive of graffiti. Between the two, the story Graffiti by Boyd is a much better article because it is informative and exciting to read. For some time now there has been controversy on weather graffiti stands out as an art or not ever since it began to appear in a number of galleries worldwide. The reason Alex Boyd’s “Graffiti” is a better essay is because it seeks to distinguish between retrogressive instance of graffiti and positive especially in the messages that they put forward.

The first thing to note is the overall composition of the painting. First and foremost it is a landscape painting. The colors are very monochrome; the space is stretched to reveal a depth to the painting that the eye cannot capture; and there is stillness to the art that embraces nature and serenity of life. In the right-hand corner of the painting there is calligraphy. The calligraphy lacks the precision, but is very clear in its form, much like the depiction within the painting

The flowers face many angles and are all different, most have contrasting shades of green leaves surrounding the petals and varying stem widths and lengths. This creates interest throughout the painting. To complement the bright yellow flower petals, Van Gogh has detailed a baby blue background with small, vertical and horizontal brush strokes. This contrasts well with the yellow flowers and helps to separate them from the yellow foreground. Also, to break all the yellow sections, he has cleverly used a lighted yellow tint on the bottom half of the vase, rather than shades, which he has used to outline the petals of the flowers. In doing this and by also adding light to the front petals and vase, Van Gogh has added a third dimension to his painting. Like Olley, Van Gogh has painted this artwork in warm colours to create a joyful and uplifting artwork to look at.

Bobby starts to spray graffiti on the wall and then all the thoughts just starts rushing through his mind. With all these thoughts Bobby just starts expressing them in his art work. He shows Bobby and K-Boy climbing the fire escape tying kites to a clothesline, Bobby and J.L. at the museum of Natural History in the shadows, Bobby on the beach in Jamaica with his brothers, Bobby's mom taking photographs, Bobby being a pale ghost boy at the basketball courts, and a baby with no face. The graffiti shows his emotions towards things like him being a ghost boy or the baby with no face.

The painting is colorful and stands out against a white background. The text has a simple black font that does not deviate attention from the vibrant painting. The cover art symbolizes the author’s style. Flack has a laser-sharp focus on her topic and rarely diverges from her message.

Paul “Moose” Curtis has found himself immersed within the unusual and incredible art of reverse graffiti. Instead of using aerosol paint to create murals on walls, Moose uses a pressure washer to remove the dirt and grime from the wall eventuating a creation of ravishing images of pattern. This new art form is evolving into a mad craze all over the world. This is the story of Moose.

traffic cones from off the street and engraving his work into them. The prints that come off the

The history of the Situationist movement is critical into understanding how street art can be used as a political weapon to enact social change. Like Banksy, the Situationists believed in superseding art, which abolishes the notion of art as a separate, specialized activity and transforms it into the cultural fabric of everyday life. Street art accompanies an element of surprise and culture shock because it can appear anywhere. People do not have to visit a museum or gallery to see art. Moreover, he adopts the Situationist’s methods of detournement, which is the act of taking an existing form of media and creating a new piece of art with a different message behind it. In particular, Banksy’s Les Misérables' mural is a representative form of deceptive detournement, which takes an intrinsically significant element and places it into a new context. Tear gas surrounds her and the French flag is torn to signify the values of liberty and freedom being destroyed. This is one of several Banksy’s murals that are reminiscent to the Syrian refugee

Street artists use them for their subversive political potential, in order to deliver a strong and provocative message through the diversion of innocent images. The artist takes a stand, initiates a conversation and denounces world injustices. It is Combo’s street activism that gets him ‘noticed’ in the art world. His characteristic style appeared in 2010, when he began utilizing paint, using rollers mounted on telescopic sticks. This new solution allowed him to increase the painted surface and to transmit a stronger intensity through his visual vocabulary. Huge human figures, sometimes sarcastic and sometimes dramatic, as if borrowed from a comic strip, began to appear at that time in the streets of Paris. Combo's aesthetic research is motivated

Spiegelman uses the artistic ability and style to paint the picture for the emotion he wants the reader to feel. This style is much different than mine in the sense of how the reader feels throughout the novel, but mine portrays this gloomy young kid then gets much serious towards the end where I am reflecting on his life. Spiegelman keeps this gloom of black and white to not show any contrast of the war, which is how the people living during the time felt. I incorporated that idea after the dog had moved away, darkening the images and making it sad, then quickly rushing in the car and back to bright when he meets up. Finally, I am later seen depressed and shaken by the event. I did not go as far as to show the importance of the novel to be used as the medium rather than writing like in Maus we do not ever really notice the swastika showed fully, showing that it is in his point of view of the idea and also the representation of the animals as the nationalities. The use of style and meaning seem to also be a great reason to use this format, sadly this does not call for it, thus, the idea that it would be more effective writing it without the

Throughout the centuries, artists played important roles documenting the history, portraying the world in their particular, sometimes controversial view, without regard for their own well-being, without fear of retaliation for the beliefs, ideas and values. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the works of the graffiti artists around the world, bucking the system and pointing out the idiocies and hypocrisies surrounding them even in the face of prosecution. Above all, these artists show us the invisible truth which we cannot recognize ourselves. Before the Edward Snowden revelations, one of the best known graffiti artists around the world Banski, produced a piece of art, One Nation Under CCTV, painted on a side of the Royal Mail building in

The print is presented with antique brass, pastel brown, pale gold, wheat, and pale chestnut. These undertones of colors that are softened or moderated create a feeling of gloom and calm at the same time. In addition, Klee used the technique of color blocking by overlapping squares. There is no particular color that dominates the entire image or completely catches a viewer’s attention. However, Klee emphasized on harmonization of colors by considering not only the combination of the colors but also the composition and the scale of the blocks. Each block blends harmoniously into one another so that it creates a sense of rhythmical or rhythmic changes, even though those colors used are analogous. Therefore, the print reminds me of lyrical melody, especially moody and gentle jazz music. While the background of the print presents a sense of color, the artist detached color from physical description and the objects are drawn childlike. Thus, the print looks like an illustrated page of a child’s diary that depicts an image of his or her

The origin and history of graffiti is not what one might expect. Believed to have been created by a Philadelphia high school student named Cornbread in 1967, it was a bold effort to catch the attention of a girl (De Melker). In this same time period, graffiti sprung up in New York as well. It was “one among many forms of social protest” during