Sentences with phrase «recognized graffiti artists»
Keynote speakers include former Navy SEAL Rorke Denver, who starred in the 2012 hit film «Act of Valor;» bestselling author, entrepreneur and former chief evangelist for Apple Guy Kawasaki; top - rated business author Daniel Pink; and internationally recognized graffiti artist, film maker and author Erik Wahl.
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Recognizing the Bronx's cultural contributions — including the birth of artistic movements such as hip hop, graffiti art and Latin Jazz, that served as inspiration to many contemporary artists — in 1999 the Museum expanded its collecting practice to include works by artists for whom the Bronx has been critical to their artistic practice and development.
Although as early as 1979, graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were exhibiting in galleries, it was not until the 1980s that artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat began to be widely recognized by institutions, critics, and collectors, creating work that applied the styles they had cultivated on the urban fabric onto canvases and prints.
Legendary French street artist Xavier Prou, best known under his famous pseudonym, Blek le Rat and widely recognized as the «Father of stencil graffiti» is having a New York City artist residency at the super chic and cool hotel The Quin on West 57th Street.
Fafi is a French street artist, recognized for her unique graffiti style depicting sexy, funny, voluptuous girl characters in her made up world.
About the artist JonOne (John Andrew Perello, 1963, New York, USA) is one of the most recognized contemporary artists in France today, and a key figure in the world of graffiti.
Now, as this historical thread comes of age and recognizes itself in the mirror of history and on the faces of its youth, as the pioneers of the culture are canonized and the younger artists are united, there are many more opportunities afforded them within the design market, auction houses and fine art world, as these communities continue grow in their recognition of the cultural value and influence of Graffiti and Street Art, as the most prevalent styles and art movements in the late twentieth and early twenty - first centuries.