To live in a densely populated environment is to be on view while viewing others; to exchange intimate moments with strangers.
Off-the-wall graffiti working together, Concrete jungle art is eloquent of the mode of life, introducing discordant subversive elements. Recalling memories are often blended with narcisism and silly creatures.
The glorification of the superficiality is not the triumph of the artificiality. The sub-genres of collage paintings, art gluing, crazy drawing, silly performance and aesthetic strategy all have their own thought-leaders.
Off-the-wall ideas
The only copper etching print like this being taken seriously would be in a crazy artsy type of way.
If you can't see the writing on the wall, all pictures work together in a secretive artsy cabal dedicated to ruining the urban landscapes with humorous artworks. Foisting whimsical ideas onto impressionable opinion leaders.
This picture adds a new twist to the question of whether or not it's art.
Superficiality is not artificiality: contemporary art business has the quirky character that it is a game without a winner, just plenty of losers.
Full art without circle reasonning at the intersection of life and art. If you are willing to reveal yourself honestly in your work, you are stripping off your mask without people thinking you are nuts.
The experience of looking and being looked at. Wall painting reproduces the experience of intimacy at a distance that is a hallmark of city dwelling.
Wall painting as a medium has its origins in the very earliest history of graffiti from the caves of Lascaux to art's impenetrability as "nothing but propaganda". Everything you see becomes a silly art project in your mind.
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