Contemporary Street Artists
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- marychain
Who are your favorites working right now?
Fond of Gaia and Jaz http://graffitimundo.com/artists…
looking for new names
- bored2death0
Ever heard of Banksy?
- Um....yesmarychain
- Banksy is for old people who just learned about street art.********
- breadlegz0
Kyle Hughes-Odgers
Not sure he's strictly a street artist, but I love his stuff.
- ********0
I feel like street art hasn't been cool since Shepard Fairey and everyone else started selling out around 2003.
- That's a bit broad don't you think?marychain
- There's just so much more of it. Like music -- your only chance is to sift, sift, sift.mikotondria3
- It used to be edgy, now it's just ugly. To me at least. Too many "street" commercial campaigns.********
- ********0
Threadless and Marc Ecko kind of ruined street art. It's everywhere.
Bring back old school murals and art with meaning.
- Community sounding boards, rather than escapist circle-jerks.
mikotondria3
- Community sounding boards, rather than escapist circle-jerks.
- breadlegz0
@freedom: "Selling Out" ... You mean making money?
- hahamonospaced
- Touche.********
- Buying in, NOT selling out...
; )ideaist
- marychain0
Freedom...Surely it's not just about being edgy...it's art...there is good and bad and lots of it...that's the purpose of the thread...to gather some good to look at....hell van eyck was edgy.....in the 16th century...still great art.
- marychain0
^ Gaia...who I mentioned ...would be hard to label "ugly"...and if it was...art can't be ugly? Bacon?
- ********0
I don't know what I'm typing and good for these people making money.
- ********0
- arne0
EVOL
- stoplying0
For every one talented artist who takes to the street, there are a SHITLOAD of wannabes who just shit up a landscape with shitty tags and marker tags. Well, shit.
- doesnotexist0
not street art, but seems derivative:
