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Stickering
Sticker art (also known as sticker bombing, sticker slapping, slap tagging, and sticker tagging) is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. These stickers may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issue, or comprise a subcategory of graffiti. Sticker artists use a variety of label types, including inexpensively purchased and free stickers, such as the United States Postal Service's Label 228 or name tags. History Even if there were various unknown pioneers before, the first officially recognized example of sticker art in the USA is ''André the giant has a posse'' by Shepard Fairey, created in 1989. The first European (and non-American) sticker art project is ''I Sauri'', started in 1993. Since 2000, many graffiti artists and street artists, like Katsu or Barry McGee incorporated stickers in their production, using them as an alternative to tagging and bombing, or as autonomous art projects. Creation Label 228s are ...
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Smear Sticker
Smear may refer to: *A smear test, wherein a sample is smeared over a microscope slide to be studied for any pathology **A smear test usually refers to a pap test, that is, a cervical smear *Smear (card game) *Smear Lake, a lake in Wisconsin *Smear campaign, or smear job, an attack on the reputation of an individual or group making use of disinformation tactics *Smear Campaign (album), ''Smear Campaign'' (album), an album by Napalm Death *Pat Smear, the guitarist and actor *Smear (optics), motion that degrades sharpness, which is generally linear over the integration time *Colloquial name for a glissando, a glide from one musical pitch to another Smearing may refer to: * Smearing of an image taken by an astronomical interferometer: ** Bandwidth smearing, a chromatic aberration; ** Time smearing, a consequence of Earth rotation during the observation; * Smearing (climbing), a technique of rock climbing * Density functional theory#Electron smearing, Electron smearing, a tool for im ...
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Culture Jamming
Culture jamming (sometimes also guerrilla communication) is a form of protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of mass society. Culture jamming employs techniques originally associated with Letterist International, and later Situationist International known as ''détournement.'' It uses the language and rhetoric of mainstream culture to subversively critique the social institutions that produce that culture. Tactics include editing company logos to critique the respective companies, products, or concepts they represent, or wearing fashion statements that criticize the current fashion trends by deliberately clashing with them.Boden, Sharon and Williams, Simon J. (2002) "Consumption and Emotion: The Romantic Ethic Revisited", Sociology 36(3):493–512 Culture jamming often entails using mass media to pro ...
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Graffiti And Unauthorised Signage
Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire. Graffiti is a controversial subject. In most countries, marking or painting property without permission is considered by property owners and civic authorities as defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime, citing the use of graffiti by street gangs to mark territory or to serve as an indicator of gang-related activities. Graffiti has become visualized as a growing urban "problem" for many cities in industrialized nations, spreading from the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s to the rest of the United States and Europe and other world ...
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Visual Arts Media
The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (the ability to detect and process visible light) as well as enabling the formation of several non-image photo response functions. It detects and interprets information from the optical spectrum perceptible to that species to "build a representation" of the surrounding environment. The visual system carries out a number of complex tasks, including the reception of light and the formation of monocular neural representations, colour vision, the neural mechanisms underlying stereopsis and assessment of distances to and between objects, the identification of a particular object of interest, motion perception, the analysis and integration of visual information, pattern recognition, accurate motor coordination under visual guidance, and more. The ...
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MadC
MadC (born Claudia Walde, 1980) is a graffiti writer and muralist. She was born in Bautzen, Germany, and is most known for her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings. MadC started as a teenage graffiti writer and has since developed her creative endeavors into various related fields (including as graphic design, writing, and fine art). MadC painted her first graffiti piece in 1996, being 16 years old. She studied at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and Central Saint Martins College in London. MadC carries a master's degree in graphic design. Philosophy It is MadC's philosophy that graffiti is the greatest way to express one's self due to the fact that the end product is all that matters and that no one has to know your true identity. Major works Books (as Claudia Walde) *''Sticker City – Paper Graffiti Art'' (2007) *''Street Fonts - Graffiti Alphabets From Around The World'' (2011). Work from 154 artists, ranging from 30 different countries. ...
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Wheatpaste
Wheat paste (also known as flour and water paste, flour paste, or simply paste) is a gel or liquid adhesive made from wheat flour or starch and water. It has been used since antiquity for various arts and crafts such as book binding, découpage, collage, papier-mâché, and adhering paper posters and notices to walls. A critical difference among wheat pastes is the division between those made from flour and those made from starch. Vegetable flours contain both gluten and starch. Over time the gluten in a flour paste cross-links, making it very difficult to release the adhesive. Using only starch, a fine quality, fully reversible paste can be produced. The latter is the standard adhesive for paper conservation. Besides wheat, other vegetables also are processed into flours and starches from which pastes can be made: characteristics, such as strength and reversibility, vary with the plant species; manufacturer's processing; and the recipe of the end-user. Uses A common ...
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Lock On (street Art)
Lock On is a genre of street art, where artists create installations by attaching sculptures to public furniture using lengths of chain and old bike locks. The installations themselves are referred to as "a Lock On" (''singular'') or "Lock Ons" (''plural''). Style A Lock On is art in a public space, typically attached to a fence or street lamp with some sort of padlock, without permission. The Lock On style is a "non-destructive" form of underground art. Artists * REVS is the tag name of a New York City graffiti artist whose sculpture, wheat paste stickers and roller pieces have earned him a reputation of an artist provocateur. In New York, steel sculptures created with construction-grade steel and spelling "''Revs''" can be found around Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. * TEJN is considered the "founder" of the Lock On phrase. Taking scrap metal from urban areas, TEJN welds and shapes the iron into figurative sculptures which he "returns to the street" as site-specific art secu ...
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Street Poster Art
Street poster art is a kind of graffiti, more specifically categorized as "street art". Posters are usually handmade or printed graphics on thin paper. It can be understood as an art piece that is installed on the streets as opposed to in a gallery or museum, but by some it is not comprehended as a form of contemporary art. Gallery File:Nakameguro poster pylon.jpg, Nakameguro, Tokyo, Japan File:Graffiti Perú.jpg, Graffiti in Lima, Peru (2014) File:Bonjardim - Mural a Porto -Costah.jpg, Mural, Porto File:Os Gêmeos.jpg, Work of Brazilian artists Os Gêmeos, in Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal (2011) File:Wattts street art paris.jpg, Street art by WATTTS in Paris File:2007 011 CES Schelling Monsters.jpg, ''Painting in the Global Tradition'' by Ces53, a Dutch street artist File:Sesimbra Grafitti Gemeniano Cruz.jpg, Street art in Sesimbra, Portugal File:P1060341komp.JPG, Graphic-Domain in Heidelberg by Nicola Pragera File:BLU prag.jpg, Mural by BLU, ''Gaza Strip'', Prague File:Graff ...
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Street Installation
Street installations are a form of street art and installation art. While conventional street art is done on walls and surfaces street installations use three-dimensional objects set in an urban environment. Like graffiti, it is generally non-permission based and the installation is effectively abandoned by the artist upon completion. Street Installations sometimes have an interactive component. Artists Notable artist in the field include: * Above *BIBI *Banksy * Bleeps.gr * Brad Downey * El Celso * Graffiti Research Lab * Harmen de Hoop *Invader (artist) * Manfred Kielnhofer *Lennie Lee * Leon Reid IV *Mark Divo * Mark Jenkins * Joe Mangrum *Mark McGowan * Nsumi * Paige Smith (A Common Name) *TEJN * Dan Witz See also *Art intervention *Culture jamming *Installation art * Lock On street sculptures References External links * Wooster Collective Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. ''The'' ''New York Times'' called it ...
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Street Art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graffiti into a more commercial form of art, as one of the main differences now lies with the messaging. Street art is often meant to provoke thought rather than rejection among the general audience through making its purpose more evident than that of graffiti. The issue of permission has also come at the heart of street art, as graffiti is usually done illegally, whereas street art can nowadays be the product of an agreement or even sometimes a commission. However, it remains different from traditional art exposed in public spaces by its explicit use of said space in the conception phase. Background Street art is a form of artwork that is displayed in public on surrounding buildings, on streets, trains and other publicly viewed surfaces. Man ...
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Stencil Graffiti
Stencil graffiti is a form of graffiti that makes use of stencils made out of paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint. The process of stencilling involves applying paint across a stencil to form an image on a surface below. Sometimes multiple layers of stencils are used on the same image to add colours or create the illusion of depth. Because the stencil stays uniform throughout its use, it is easier for an artist to replicate what could be a complicated piece - at a high rate when compared to other conventional tagging methods. History Stencil graffiti began in the 1960s. French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest's stencilled silhouette of a nuclear bomb victim was spray painted in the south of France in 1966 (Plateau d'Albion, Vaucluse) Blek le Rat's first spray painted stencils were ...
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Papier-mâché
upright=1.3, Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti upright=1.3, Papier-mâché Catrinas, traditional figures for day of the dead celebrations in Mexico Papier-mâché (, ; , literally "chewed paper") is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste. Papier-mâché sculptures are used as an economical building material for a variety of traditional and ceremonial activities, as well as in arts and crafts. Preparation methods There are two methods to prepare papier-mâché. The first method makes use of paper strips glued together with adhesive, and the other uses paper pulp obtained by soaking or boiling paper to which glue is then added. With the first method, a form for support is needed on which to glue the paper strips. With the second method, it is possible to shape the pulp directly inside the desired form. In both methods, reinforcements with wire, ch ...
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