Not exact matches
Stephen Sprouse found his
inspiration from the street in the early»80s with his Day - Glo,»60s - inspired
graffiti prints.
For
inspiration, students can review their responses on the
graffiti board
from the opening activity.
He takes
inspiration from the hard graphic lines used in
graffiti alongside the scrawled naive lines used in child art.
Jean Dubuffet used drawing as a means to experiment with new styles, taking
inspiration from children's scribbles and
graffiti.
The new images are bold formative experiments
from diverse sources of
inspiration, such as Romanticism, Surrealism, Byzantine art and
Graffiti.
Stemming
from various sources of
inspirations including classical Italian art as well as African
graffiti and Japanese decorative arts, the exhibition contained the playfulness of Arte Povera with Calzolari's unique and personal artistic pursuits that often times challenge the movement's standards.
Purcell set The Indian Queen in the colonial Americas, and Gronk's excited calligraphy — rather choreographic in its own right — takes
inspiration equally
from Maya hieroglyphics and modern
graffiti.
Raised in a lower class Hispanic community that prided itself with its Chicano attitude, Garcia first drew
inspiration from the drawings on letters his uncles sent home
from prison and the gang
graffiti painted on the walls of his neighborhood.
There is of course also a powerful
inspiration from contemporary street art,
graffiti and comics.
Known by the tag name «Twist» for his
graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take
inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.
Drawing their
inspiration from everything
from American and European
graffiti to calligraphy in addition to some historical sources the featured artists have been able to create a new body of work based on personal narratives that give form to a new and unique hybrid art form.
The artists each create and reference personal narratives
from their roots as
graffiti artists, but also draw
inspiration from historical letter based art forms.
It focuses on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape,
from which the three artists draw their
inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms and geometry, Nelio through a dense texture of colour fields that he uses to compose his name, and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long and vaunted past as a
graffiti writer, evolves his style in three - dimensional works, in which painting, drawing and architecture interact with one another.
COBRA artists got their
inspiration from several different sources, notably: prehistoric art, various forms of primitivism, so - called folk art, gestural and textual
graffiti, Nordic mythology, and especially children's pictures, Art Brut and other types of Outsider art.
Taking
inspiration from the title of the famous song, the latest solo exhibition of German
graffiti legend MOST marks transition in style at a4lw in Soest.
Richard Heller Gallery, hosting a solo show for the artist in 2015, once commented on the artist's «intensely detailed scenarios in colored pencil on paper and sculpture» as «taking
inspiration from the infinite possibilities of science fiction, the storytelling of Henry Darger, the isometric perspective and narrative geography of Nintendo and Chinese scroll paintings, the eroticism of Japanese pillow books and the limitless transformations of
graffiti.»
The forms and gestures found in her work derive
from a wide variety of
inspirations and art historical references, such as CoBrA, Situationism and Abstract Expressionism but also pop cultural aesthetics like
graffiti or cartoon that indicate Ekblad's genre - crossing approach.