Blog 2 - DSDN 171

Single author book

Lewisohn, C. (2008). Street art: The graffiti revolution. London: Tate.

The book Street art: The graffiti revolution explores and explains the differences between two forms of art with how text based graffiti appeals to a certain crowed where street art is more dedicated to a wide range of people. It is a book with more about the different forms of graffiti art and street art then others that have more pictures and less information.

Journal article

Sims, J. (2008). Street art comes indoors. Street art comes indoors, 1(1).

This journal article is about how graffiti and street art is making it into museums and copies are being sold to the public. Artist names are being known and prices for certain pieces are selling for a great deal of money. He explains how celebrities such as Brad Pitt have noticed graffiti art, buying into their own taste of it.

Edited book

Deitch, J. , Gastman, R. , & Rose, A. (2011). Art in the streets. New York, NY: Skira Rizzol.

The edited book is about how the authors displayed street art movements in the museum Contemp art Los Angeles and the link between hip hop music and graffiti and street art in Bronx and skateboarding in Southern California.

Website

Guetta, T. (n.d). Amusement art. Retrieved from Http://www.Mrbrainwash.com

This website is about a French street artist Thierry Guetta who got hooked into the love of street art. He first began filming street artists such as Invader, Shepard fairey and Banksy but now makes his own prints and sells his own work to the public. He also still remains weatpasting and doing stencil art around where he lives in Los Angeles.


Image


Banksy. (2011). If graffiti changed anything it would be illegal. [Stencil art/ photography]. Received from http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/index1.html

This image showing stencil art graffiti was taken in London, 2011. The famous graffiti artist Banksy catches the public's attention once again with a message displaying what he thinks.

Individual work

I chose the drawing technique exploded oblique as shown in the top image as it shows a good understanding of the object that has been replicated in the style underneath the reference. It breaks down each component showing what is hidden inside of the outer shell of the object and its mechanisms. It is drawn in the order that it is assembled in.

Touch and draw

Section

Section Process

Draw

Hatch

Identity

My name is Troy Stevenson and i was born in Tauranga, New Zealand. I have lived there my whole life untill now. I have only atteneded three schools, Matua Primary, Otumoetai Intermediate, and Otumoetai College. Art and sports have always been a part of my life since i was young. In the winter i snow ski, summer i wake board and water ski, and all year round i compete at taekwondo and skateboard.

As i have grown up i have always loved art, i would spend alot of time drawing when i was young. Even now i still love to draw but have found my passion for computer digital art. Right the way through college i stuck with the subject art design. From taking the subject i have learnt about the art movement but also alot about Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and contemporary typography.

Through out my years at college learning about designers and what they have created, i have found my personal design inspiration. The company Ars Thanea (http://www.arsthanea.com/) has a team of digital design artists who do and have done design work for company's such as Coca Cola. Their work ranges from illistraions to 3d game design art.

Once i have finished studying media design at university my asbiration is to travel over seas to America. Getting a taste of what the world has to offer with design and art is what i would be looking at. I would like to work for a design company and gain experiance that i could bring back to New Zealand and apply in my own sence and style weither it be with my own busniss or working for a company.

"If your eye doesn't have the seance of design, then the computer programs not going to give it to you."

-David Carson