PROJECT #7 – street art
Goal:
Street art is the newest and most exciting segment of the contemporary art world. This assignment will allow you to create your own street art persona.
Assignment:
We recently viewed Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop and have been introduced to street artists such as, Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash, Monsieur André, and Space Invader. Now it is time for you to create your own street art persona!
1) Give yourself a name, such as when Thierry Guetta became “Mr Brainwash”
2) Define your goals and intentions as a street artist
3) What message does your work contain?
4) Where is your street art going to be placed so people will see it?
5) What medium are you going to use? What size is it ideally going to be?
Develop your ideas and write an essay explaining the five bullet points above.
Create a work of street art! ON PAPER! Attach it to your essay.
Essay Format:
Upper left hand corner of the paper should have (single-spaced)
Your Name
Days and Time of Class
Project Number
Skip two lines and begin your paper…do not give your paper a title
One-Page (20-23 lines of text)
Typed
Double Spaced (Format—>Paragraph—>Spacing—>Double—>Click OK)
1” Margins (Format—>Document—>Change Margins—>Click OK)
Use Times New Roman
10-point font
Don’t forget to proofread your paper! Grammar does count!
Art Format:
Complete your work on a standard 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper. Do not deviate from this.
The medium is up to you, but pencil is preferred
I am sorry, no computer generated artwork is acceptable.
Do the artwork on a separate piece of paper. DO NOT complete it on the same paper as your essay.
An example is below.
The Packet:
Essay
Attach a sample of your street art
Point Value: 25 points
Due Date: Monday, November 16th.
An “A” Student
Project #5
As the world of street art continues to expand, more new and innovative forms of art are being displayed all around the world – from LA to Paris to New York City and more. When trying to figure out what piece of street art to create myself, it took me awhile before I dedicated myself to a certain image because there were so many ideas running through my head. I chose my primary form of street art to depict a cartoon detective with the word “create” at the bottom of his coat holding a magnifying glass that reveals an inkblot from the Rorschach test. Based on this image, I would call myself “Detective J.”
All-in-all, my street art does not portray a particularly deep or meaningful subject and is not extremely difficult to create, yet I feel that the message I want viewers to receive from this image is still an important one for people to remember. The Rorschach inkblot test is typically used for psychological purposes to determine a person’s personality characteristics and emotional functionality. Personally, I believe it is also a test of the imagination, a method of creation and interaction with each other and with an individual’s personal creative side. As a street artist, my goal is to promote these artistic characteristics – creation, imagination, and interaction – to the general public through my street art. At a time where everything feels rushed and many people are socially “impaired,” I want people to notice my artwork on the streets, stop, and take time to utilize the parts of their brain which have been hibernating for so long. The primary message that my artwork contains is that creativity is an integral part of our society that many people seem to be missing. Whereas before people used to experiment with different methods to solve a particular problem, our society has become utterly dependent on technology and what others tell them to do. I want people to get excited about creativity again – to dream and to think of something new to do, to not fall into the repetition of life.
Most of my street art will be large-scale images (a little less than life-size) because I want everyone to be able to see it whether they are nearby or far away. More likely than not, I will be print-making my images, cutting them out, and then “gluing” the images onto the city’s walls for people to see. To be more specific about my placement of the street art, I would locate either a busy or rundown street somewhere in LA because a busy street would attract a larger audience but a rundown street will attract an audience that probably needs a new sense of hope to be ignited within them, which I feel my artwork can bring to them if they just take the time to look at it and use their imagination.
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