Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 3, 2012 at 21:55

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Pintor (Graffiti)

Jean-Michel Basquiat (Nova Iorque, 22 de dezembro de 1960 — 12 de agosto de 1988) pintor americano. Sua mãe era filha de porto-riquenhos e seu pai era haitiano.

Basquiat começou fazendo graffiti aos 16 anos, em metrôs e muros de Manhattan, e acabou se tornando um grande artista internacional de vanguarda da década de 1980.

Na infância sofreu um atropelamento. Para entretê-lo durante a recuperação, sua mãe lhe deu um livro de anatomia. Isso influenciou muito sua arte, pois suas obras tinham muitos detalhes anatômicos.

Seus primeiros graffitis nas ruas eram assinados como SAMO (abreviação de “same old shit”), pseudônimo que Basquiat e seu colega Al Diaz criaram. Em 1980 parou de grafitar e começou a pintar telas. Nesta época escreveu pelas paredes de toda Nova York: Samo morreu.

Basquiat achava que as pessoas são muito ligadas ao material e pregava que devíamos estar mais voltados para o espiritual. Dizia que a classe média se preocupava muito em ficar mostrando o que não tem, com roupas caras, e que só faltava andar com a etiqueta aparecendo para se exibirem ainda mais.

Foi um amigo pessoal de Andy Warhol, com quem compartilhou técnica e inspiração.

Faleceu em 1988, vítima de overdose de heroína, em seu estúdio.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 4, 2012 at 8:13

Graffiti gets the status of art

Work of the former graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat illustrates the cover of a book about the artist

In a planned or not, in the late seventh young Jean-Michel Basquiat concentrated his graffiti in the East Village and SoHo, art galleries regions, where the workshops and circulated many of the most important artists in New York. It was a time when the art market was still dominated by Pop Art and Conceptual Art.There were also times where the connection between visual arts, music, fashion and nightlife became intense. In this environment, the graffiti of Basquiat drew the attention of the owners of art galleries and dealers eager for news that could meet the demand for innovative works, which mainly strengthened rapprochement between high culture and popular culture.

Moreover, the peak of graphite as an anarchic movement linked to poor boys had passed.The early '80s brought a new wave of radical chic , where yuppies , young executives in the financial market began to be interested in investing in art and helped spark a boom in this segment. When Basquiat and other graffiti artists have joined the glamorous world of fine arts, they had already distanced itself from the radicalism of the graphite. But despite no longer put its mark on buildings and public spaces, these graffiti artists took to the art galleries and exhibits much of the aesthetics and ideology of street graffiti.

The graphite also influenced generations of artists who were not part of the street art movement.Keith Haring was one of them. His work and his attitude also incorporated many of the ideas of graphite. As an artist and activist, he sought to take his art out of galleries and museums, alternative spaces and independent for as subway stations and nightclubs. In one of his most famous creations, "Radiant Baby", there are clear references to the aesthetic universe of graffiti.

In addition to Basquiat and Haring, since the 80's, other artists connected to the universe of graffiti have been prominent not only in urban landscapes, but also in art exhibitions and biennials. Among them is the duo of Brazilian artists "Twins." The brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo participated in the hip-hop scene of Sao Paulo in the late '80s when they became interested in graffiti art. Since then, the facades and viaducts Sao Paulo, came to his graffiti art galleries and also the walls of the great cities of the United States, Germany, Australia, China, Italy, Cuba, Japan, Greece and Argentina, among others.

Despite going to be part of environments "officers" of contemporary art, graffiti still remains as a street art and transgressive. And it remains one of the most accessible for young people to express themselves artistically and politically, and especially to mark their presence in the vast and diverse urban landscape.

Photo Alexandre Fukuda (Facade of Galeria Fortes Vilaca (SP) crafted by graffiti artists "Twins" with his trademark, the duo had their works exhibited at the site in 2006)

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 4, 2012 at 8:18

Jean Michel Basquiat AND HIS ART disturbing

Jean Michel Basquiat was an african american painter who created a universe full of artistic codes of street art and a very strong graphic design and urban, and one of the major precursors of graffiti.

His father Gerard Jean-Baptiste Basquiat was interior minister from Haiti and became owner of a large accounting firm to immigrate to the United States. His mother was Mathilde Andrada Puerto Rican origin.

Jean was the first of three children, middle class and liked drawing since childhood.

Jean Michel Basquiat, to three years old and drew cartoons reproduced cartoon characters on television. But his taste for art has become a serious matter and one of his favorite programs was attending the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. He even had a formal socio-Mirim.

A tragedy brought him even closer to the art when the seven years he was hit in the accident and had lacerated spleen. He underwent surgery and was a season in the hospital. Her mother gave her an anatomy book, called Gray's Anatomy, which have great influence on his future as an artist.

This universe of anatomy would be inserted into your paint job with human bodies.

Jean Michel Basquiat created a short musical band in 1979, whose name was Gray's, which had the sound coming from the Latin Caribbean and Puerto Rico, which shone in the New Yorker art scene as hip hop, rap and break.

With her parents' divorce he changes with his father and sisters for Puerto Rico and lived there from 1974 to 1976.

Basquiat makes contact with its Latin origins.

At 17 he is back in New York and can not adapt to mainstream schools. Passes to attend Edward R.Murrow High School but leaves virtually at the end of the course.

Leaves home and goes to live with friends and going to paint T-shirts that he sells on the streets.

With the graphic artist Al Diaz creates SAMO (same old shit - same old shit), and signature brand that used to spread their works on the walls of the city. Goes to live on the streets and graffiti on walls, doors of houses and subways of New York.

Gradually it becomes a celebrity, begins to appear in a program on cable and is invited to attend the film Downtown 81, investing the money he earned in painting materials.

The film recounts a day in the life of the young artist in search of survival and mixing hip hop, new wave and graffiti art forms typical of the early 80's.

With the fame acquired replaced by money, becomes a leading international artist of the call.

He becomes friends with influential people, knowing and living with Andy Warhol, with whom he shared a strong friendship.

Andy Warhol gave him place to live, work materials, and help publicize their work and sponsor some eccentricities, typical of well-heeled.

At this time Basquiat dropped out of street art and graffiti on the walls and decrees: "SAMO is dead."

He starts to paint canvases that are to be purchased and sold by dealers in Zurich, New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles, eager for news. Artist who lived precariously becomes an artist consumed and received in the most chic and exclusive salons in New York.

Basquiat's art is classified as "intellectual primitivism," a neo-expressionist trend, depicting skeletal figures, frightened faces, masked faces, cars, buildings, police, black icons of music and boxing scenes of urban life, and collages, along with nervous strokes, squiggles, indecipherable writing, always in bright colors and large screen.

Almost always, the black element is depicted in the chaos.

There is also a desecration of icons of art history, as his Mona Lisa (acrylic and oil on canvas) which is a deformed figure streaked with colored pencil.

The most creative period of the short life and meteoric career of Basquiat is between 1982-1985, and coincides with the friendship with Warhol, a time that makes collages and paintings with written messages, which resemble the graffiti from the beginning and that refer to their African roots. It is also the period that begins to participate in major exhibitions.

In 1982, with the show Anatomy, Baquiat was the youngest artist of the famous exhibition Dokumenta, Kessel and also in 1983, the youngest artist in the Biennial of the Whitney Museum, New York.

Thereafter he participates in various exhibitions and replaced jobs across many major museums of the world as: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art in Japan, Chicago Art Institute, Illinois, Syracuse Everson Museum of Art New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Museum of Contemporary Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art in New York Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

The death of his friend and protector Andy Warhol in 1987, Basquiat leaves shaken and weakened, and this is reflected in its creation. Critics always very demanding, no longer treat him with unanimity and Basquiat responds to these charges, associating it with racism ingrained in American society.

Basquiat began using drugs and in August 1988, he dies of a heroin overdose, which puts an end to brilliant career of the first african american to have access to the arts scene closed novaiorquinas.

His work is worshiped throughout the world and became a reference in contemporary art.

His exhibition of 1996 in the 23rd. Biennial in Sao Paulo had a special room with his works and in 1998 it mounted a retrospective at the Pinacoteca of São Paulo.

In 2010, was organized in Paris a large exhibition of his work, causing great public success.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 4, 2012 at 17:44

Basquiat e a Arte do Graffiti

Da marginalização da contra-cultura, aos museus de arte urbana

De origem italiana, o nome “graffiti” sugere inscrições caligrafadas ou ilustradas em superfícies não convencionais… como por exemplo, paredes!

Grafite em homenagem á Cartola – RJ

Esse interesse surgiu assim que pus meus pés na Rua Jardim Botânico, onde dezenas de paredes com ilustraçoes grafitadas colorem uma das regiões de alto turismo da zona sul carioca.

Muito diferente da pichação (na língua inglesa o termo graffiti se refere aos dois), cujo os fins na maioria das vezes não são artísticos (ou legalizados), o grafite é hoje em dia uma das vertentes mais notáveis quando se fala em Arte e Intervenção Urbana (sendo associado á outros movimentos urbanos como o hip hop e algumas tribos urbanas).

Depois de um movimento de uma contra-cultura que usou o grafite para inserir textos de caráter poético e político nos muros de Paris, no final da década de 60 , essa técnica se espalhou pelo mundo.Assim, evoluiu para as variadas linguagens que têm-se hoje, em seus diferentes estilos.

A arte dos Os Gemeos de São Paulo (BRASIL)

A arte da Plantio Crew –RIo de Janeiro- Brasil

ea arte do Nunca - SP

Pesquisando um pouco mais, que acabei “descobrindo” Jean-Michel Basquiat.

O americano Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) é considerado o percursor da popularização do grafite e o responsável por elevar essa prática ao status dearte.Desde a década de 70 que as obras do nova-iorquino, cheias de mensagens poéticas, espalhadas pelos prédios abandonados em Manhanttan atrairam a atenção da imprensa.

“Em 1977, aos 17 anos, Basquiat e um amigo, Al Diaz, começaram a fazer grafite em prédios abandonados em Manhattan. A assinatura era sempre a mesma: “SAMO” ou “SAMO shit” (“same old shit”, ou, traduzindo, “a mesma merda de sempre”). Isso gerou curiosidade nas pessoas, principalmente pelo conteúdo das mensagens grafitadas. Em dezembro de 1978, o veículo Village Voice publicou um artigo sobre as escrituras. O projeto “SAMO” acabou com o epitáfio “SAMO IS DEAD” (SAMO está morto) escrito nas paredes de construções do SoHo novaiorquino”

Esse cara, saiu de casa aos dezoito anos e passou a viver com os amigos, sobrevivendo da venda de postais e camisetas.Ele começou a ganhar atenção na cena de arte de East Village em Manhanttan, numa espécie de ambiente underground da onde surgiriam muitos artistas conhecidos hoje em dia.Aos 22 anos, Basquiat já andava em companhia de vários curadores e conhecedores das artes que mais tardes ficariam conhecidos como os neo-expressionistas.A esta altura, já havia conseguido parcerias para expor suas obras fora do país, em conjunto com outros artistas da cena urbana alternativa de NY.

Foi nessa época que ele começou a namorar uma cantora então desconhecida chamada Madonna, e fez amizade com nada mais nada menos que empreendedor/financiador de gente -mentor-da-Arte-Pop Andy Warhol, com quem colaborou artisticamente por pelo menos dois anos.

Auto-retrato de Basquiat

Warhol e Basquiat

Como a maioria dos artistas, Basquiat, era dito como paranóico, perturbado e era um viciado em heroína.Após tomar uns bons drinques de speedball, mais conhecido como coquetel de drogas, o artista morreu de overdose em 1988.Mas seu legado influenciou e influencia até hoje, grafiteiros e artistas neo-expressionistas do mundo inteiro.

Após sua morte, um filme biográfico foi lançado em sua homenagem.

Para quem se interessar em começar a grafitar por aí, é bom se informar.Não é em qualquer parede em branco que se pode grafitar, ainda mais se forem prédios públicos.Além disso, existe toda uma ética entre os grafiteiros, como o respeito com a arte dos outros (fazer uma intervençao em um graffiti de outra pessoa pode dar problema), além da mensagem que será passada no seu graffiti…

Abaixo, uma pequena galeria com grafites de Olinda á Ucrânia. Inspirem-se e comprem seus sprays!

Na galeria, separei algumas fotografias de muros grafitados, entre eles, trabalhos de grafiteiros brasileiros como Os Gemeos, que são conhecidos mundialmente.

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 5, 2012 at 19:19

"WHY SO MUCH TALK IN ANDY WARHOL" lucia mosque D'ART OFFICE If you look back Dylan and the Beatles captured the spirit of this, the artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the antenna that tracked the future! ...Beatles, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, these three names define the decade that changed everything in the twentieth century, 60. Bob Dylan drew on traditions of the past, poetry and classic American hillbilly music of the country, the country to raise the status of rock art. Meanwhile, the Beatles were sweeping with their radar, various areas of culture, and thus shaped the most perfect picture of the time. . Andy Warhol may have been an icon of the 60s, but what is striking is that his work says about the present day. He seems to have picked up a new world that emerged: the cult of celebrity, the democratization of consumer goods, and public display of personal life, which currently takes shape through the maximum "reality shows like Big Brother, the blogs and Twitter. "Most of the pieces that comprise the ensemble were created when the artist lived in the legendary Factory ("factory" in English), New York, a studio where he worked, threw parties and meeting friends (movie Men in Black) as the portraits of Marilyn Monroe, the screen prints of Campbell's soup cans, and the films called Screen Tests (Test Screen) What, after all, the size of Andy Warhol in the art of the twentieth century? The answer lies somewhere between the two points of view that guide the discussion on CONTEMPORARY ART One, supported by several critics, argues that the last major innovation in art was Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). The French established the artist defined what was art or not, and marked the position with a radical example by signing a urinal in an art room. According to this view, all that is done today is to recycle the thought of Duchamp and thus Warhol's soup cans, much as sharks in formaldehyde Damien Hirst of the British, would be repetitions of the original urinal. Another way of thinking, held by most artists and the other half of the critics, considers this inference reductive and pontificates that what counts are the issues raised by works, whether realized or not in his own hand by their authors, they repeat or not the fundamental thought of Duchamp. (????????)When he started his factory in 1964, Warhol had two obsessions in life: to make money and become famous, not necessarily in that order. Even the loft, with walls covered with foil and ceiling and floor painted with silver paint, turned into a good strategy for the desired success. Warhol insisted on leaving her door always open to welcome the celebrities in high and they responded with an attendance card point. Singer Bob Dylan was also a regular address, as well as Lou Reed and John Cale, members of the band The Velvet Underground, who had just Warhol as an entrepreneur. His house, factory, turned the brand. And their attitude, their companies, in short, his public image has become a means to enhance their work. The artist Charles Henri Ford also well defined once the lifestyle of his friend: "Andy on a desert island would not be Andy."SOUP DIETAnother of insights Warhol has to do with the serigraphs of cans of Campbell's soup, it was he who first saw the prepared foods were beginning to enter the menu of both the president of his country and the middle class, and explained this idea to imprint cans in series.Warhol did the same with Coca-Cola, with boxes of Brillo soap powder, ketchup Heinz and Kellogg's cornflakes. The reflection that your can of Campbell's soup, theorists in the 60s that was called "massification" thought the fetish around certain brands make choices uniforms. Most likely Andy Warhol did not think anything of it when he put his Campbell's in the gallery - but we invariably leads us to reflect on the phenomenon when we look at the cans Station Pinacoteca. And are we surprised at the power of the visionary artist.THREE MINUTES OF FAMEFinally, you could say that Warhol somehow anticipated the overexposure of personal life which, with the Internet and its popular social networking sites - not to mention blogs and now Twitter - became a feature of the twenty-first century. You can watch the series of Warhol's Screen Tests. It's short films about three minutes each, bringing friends and beautiful young artist - among them, model Edie Sedgwick and singers Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Framed in the foreground, they were instructed to just face the camera. Warhol, who used a little editing, was not around during the recording. He pressed the button "rec" and left. A Dylan appears bothered by smoking. Ann Buchanan, wife of poet Charles Plymell cry. The model appears Jane Holzer brushing your teeth. Vain, the artist himself never stood before a camera for, say, "self-Screen Test." Watching the films of Warhol evokes a similar feeling to accompany the Big Brother today, others a mixture of shame and sadism.The difference between the friends of the Warhol Screen Tests and is the first BBBs were already famous, and the latter are after fame. Indeed, it may not be exaggeration to say that the 60 here, this desire for notoriety not only ceased to be something derogatory as it has become a legitimate desire, worthy of public statement by. Everyone wants their ... c'mon ... fifteen minutes of fame, to reproduce here the phrase Warhol has become a cliché. . It's like everyone interpret a play written in the 60s by a redneck in Pittsburgh with tremendous sensitivity to understand the present and frightening ability to anticipate the future.What, after all, the size of Andy Warhol in the art of the twentieth century? The answer lies somewhere between the two points of view that guide the discussion on CONTEMPORARY ART One, supported by several critics, argues that the last major innovation in art was Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). The French established the artist defined what was art or not, and marked the position with a radical example by signing a urinal in an art room. According to this view, all that is done today is to recycle the thought of Duchamp and thus Warhol's soup cans, much as sharks in formaldehyde Damien Hirst of the British, would be repetitions of the original urinal. Another way of thinking, held by most artists and the other half of the critics, considers this inference reductive and pontificates that what counts are the issues raised by works, whether realized or not in his own hand by their authors, they repeat or not the fundamental thought of Duchamp.

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Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 6, 2012 at 16:26

pinturas 3D super realistas

Graphite is a form of contemporary art features essentially urban.

Pinturas 3D Super Realistas

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 10, 2012 at 20:04

Nesse post selecionamos os trabalhos mais impressionantes na nossa... Lucia Mesquita

Artista: Sainer do coletivo Etam - Polônia

Artista: Sam3 - Realiza trabalhos em diversos países

Permalink Reply by lucia mesquita bleasby on June 10, 2012 at 20:39

GRAPHITE-The Twins

lucia Mesquita Fortaleza Ceará Brasil

The Twins are a pair of twins idênticoss graffiti from Sao Paulo, born in 1974, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. Formed in communication design for the Technical School of Carlos Campos, began painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became one of the most important influences on the local scene, helping to define a Brazilian style of graffiti.