Our Monday challenge hostesses have served up a great helping of challenges today. At the TLC, we are creating backgrounds with Acrylic Block Stamping. And over at the CAS, since it's April Fools' Day, we are to create humor.
I think I am a subtle humorist. Often times it's way past the punchline before I get it. So if you find yourself pondering my humor with my ode to 2 very odd artists and a genius...no worries, I'll spell it out for {u}!
For my background I used one of my long rectangles and three Distress Inks. I used a very heavy watercolor paper. It is fun to watch the color mix and mingle without intervention!
My Graffiti creating Salvador Dali, is a tongue in cheek compliment to the anonymous English Graffiti artist and political activist, Banksy. My youngest son introduced me to his work quite a few years ago. This led to many discussions regarding tagging someones property without permission, issues of stealing through defacing, and the other side which are issues that often never see the light of day. I appreciate the art of Banksy's work, but continue to disagree with tagging. Banksy remains anonymous and recently there was an auction of his iconic girl with a balloon where it was shredded as bidding was over!
I gave Dali a gem cuff link and a tag. Graffiti artists 'tag' buildings and then other artists tag over original works and so on. Dali is holding a can of spray paint. I paper pieced it from a scrap of my original panel. He's spray painted an Einstein quote.
Reality
is merely an
illusion
albeit a very
persistent one
I stamped the quote onto acetate and stapled. The card base was dry embossed with the TH 'Brick' EF. It adds great texture.
So my humor is tag: you're it. And how do you feel about graffiti? Do you see it as a different expression of the painterly type? Could we set aside abandoned walls to artistic decoration? Could we encourage a budding artist?
My town has a huge street mural project underway right now. It is called the 20x21EUG Mural Project. Graffiti artists from all over the world have been painting murals all over town for 2+ years now.
If you stayed with me, I thank you. I appreciate your thoughts. Hope to see your art on the walls of our galleries soon.
Date: Monday, April 1, 2019 GMT Views: 1615
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Registered: May 25, 2006 Location: So. Oregon Posts: 122071
Thu, Apr 04, 2019 @ 6:58 AM
So many incredible details. and something new to see every time you look.
I don't personally do graffiti and when we have been tagged we have had it covered over within hours. ( its a code here) but, I think the abandoned buildings as a canvas for art sounds cool idea. (esp. if it contains the people from spreading out and you know doing it on other peoples not wanted spaces) the buildings downtown here they hired an artist to cover entire sides of buildings so, they are cool to see when you drive downtown.
Registered: November 20, 2007 Location: Northumberland, UK Posts: 13285
Sat, Apr 06, 2019 @ 1:14 AM
Love this! Your acrylic block BG came out spectacularly well and I love the tongue in cheek kind of humour! Banksy can create other problems these days - his latest on the corner of a garage in Port Talbot left the home owner extremely stressed because of the responsibility of trying to protect it from the hordes who came, some intent on chipping bits off to take home a souvenir!