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Art-e-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts X

February 26, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

1. Reverse Graffiti (aka clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing), is a method of creating art in public spaces by removing the dirt from its surface. Early forms of reverse graffiti include writing and pictures drawn on the dirty windows of cars and shops.  In the last several years, a more advanced method has emerged where art is created by cleaning dirty surfaces with stencils, detergent, and a high powered pressure washer. The interesting thing about reverse graffiti is it can be applied to so many different mediums with ink. Old t-shirts with peeling logos, vintage promotional mugs, maps…he possibilities are endless.

Jeffrey Pine - Sentinel Dome-Ansel Adams2. At the age of twelve Ansel Adams taught himself to play the piano and read music. Soon after, he began lessons and for the next twelve years he studied piano, intending to make his living as a concert pianist. Adams ultimately gave up piano for photography but these early studies ” brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography.”

American Gothic-Grant Wood-19303. “American Gothic” by Grant Wood depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house, whose gabled window and tracery, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting’s title. The models were actually Grant’s sister Nan and their dentist. Wood was accused of creating this work as a satire on the intolerance and rigidity that the insular nature of rural life can produce; he denied the accusation. American Gothic is an image that epitomizes the Puritan ethic and virtues that he believed dignified the Midwestern character.”

Untitled-(baby)- Sam Jinks4. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution photograph. It is a fully-recognized school of art and is considered to be an advancement of Photorealism by the methods used to create the resulting photorealistic paintings or sculptures. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has developed since the early 2000s.

Le_Dejeuner_sur_lherbe-Edouard_Manet-1862-635. The Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects”  was officially sponsored by the French Government in 1863 and was an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the Paris Salon. Any artist who wanted to be recognized, at that time, was required to have exhibited in a Salon, or to have gone to school in France. Being accepted into these Salons was a matter of survival for some artists and reputations and careers could be started or broken based upon acceptance into the Salon. Today, the term refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.

Related Books:
GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace Of American Gothic

Ron Mueck (Hyperrealism)
Early Impressionism and the French State (1866-1874)

Sources: Wikipedia (hyperrealism), DAF (items 1-4)

Filed Under: ART, Art-e-Facts Tagged With: Ansel Adams, Art Facts, art history, Grant Wood, Hyperrealism, Reverse Graffiti, Salon des Refuses

Jerihely Leal: Caricatures

August 10, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

The Jack © Jerihely Leal Marilyn © Jerihely Leal Adrien © Jerihely Leal

This week’s Deviant is painter/illustrator Jerihely Leal. Born in Venezuela in 1976, Leal studied Electronic Engineering and graduated in 1998 but soon abandoned that field in favour of his lifelong dream of working as an artist.  It was not long after that Leal began working as an illustrator for a national sports magazine as well as creating a number of covers for a well known political magazine.

Leal moved to Spain for a short period in 2001 to immerse himself in the history and technique of art. After returning home, Leal received the 2003 “Pedro Leon Zapata Award”, the biggest award for caricaturists in Venezuela.

To create his incredible images, Leal  works with pencil on paper, acrylic on board, and acrylic on canvas. The results are some of the most realistic yet hilarious caricatures I’ve ever encountered.

Leal currently works at a number of jobs including a national newspaper, a sports magazine in Spain, and as an illustrator and creative consultant for major publicity agencies.

To see more of J. Leals work, visit his profile on Deviant Art or his portfolio at j-exhibit.com.

Johnny Depp © Jerihely Leal My Old Man © Jerihely Leal Malkovich © Jerihely Leal

Sources: About Faces Entertainters

Filed Under: ART, Deviant Art, Illustration Tagged With: Caricatures, Jerihely Leal, Reverse Graffiti

Paul Curtis: Reverse Graffiti

June 30, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Reverse Graffiti Project Reverse Graffiti - Smirnoff Ad Reverse Graffiti - Ad for Crisis (charity)

For the many who think that street art is vandalism, plain and simple – consider reverse graffiti.

Reverse graffiti (aka clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing), is a method of creating art in public spaces by removing the dirt from its surface. Early forms of reverse graffiti include writing and pictures drawn on the dirty windows of cars and shops.  In the last several years, a more advanced method has emerged where art is created by cleaning dirty surfaces with stencils, detergent, and a high powered pressure washer.

Reverse graffiti does not make use of paint or ink so it is difficult to call it vandalism.  In fact, in many areas, it is considered legal and is known as “streetbranding”. Streetbranding has been used by corporations such as Smirnoff, Microsoft, and others in their advertising campaigns.

UK artist, Paul Curtis (aka Moose), is a pioneer of reverse graffiti and has been working for the last ten years to perfect his craft.  In 2008, Curtis teamed up with Green Works to make San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel a little more beautiful (see the video below).

At times, Curtis has been in the press for being a vandal but no one has ever been able to make a case against him because as he says, “No one owns the dirt.”

For more information about Paul Curtis, visit the Reverse Graffiti Project online.  For more information on reverse graffiti, visit the Environmental Graffiti website.

Sources: Reverse Graffiti Project, Wikipedia

Filed Under: ART, Eco-Art, Street Art Tagged With: Graffiti, Paul Curtis, Reverse Graffiti

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