Stencil Graffiti
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@blue wrote:
I’ve seen a few anti-war/anti-globalisation stencils in Dublin and some are very good.
Stencils certainly beat tagging as a street art form.
I quite like the use of blood red in this one:
An anti-war stencil in Dublin.Bah
@ctesiphon wrote:
Care to elaborate, wearnicehats? For example, are you referring to the ‘reverse graffiti’, to graffiti on hoardings, to graffiti on stonework, or to all of the above?
Vandalism, pure vandalism? I can’t agree. It’s far too nuanced to be dismissed so simplistically.
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I don’t see any nuance in painting pictures on things that don’t belong to you. I recently completed a building with a very expensive stone cladding. The day after pc some local “artist” had added a very nice moniker to it – something that cost a great deal of unnecessary money to remove. If they had sprayed on some stencil art, should I have been ecstatic? perhaps the client should have put it in his marketing brochure to show how public spirited he is. Vandalism is the deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property. It’s against the law. It causes distress and unnecessary expense to ordinary people. You can dress it up with any poncy name you like. Perhaps I should get away with drunk driving because I drive a funky car or was drinking a particularly trendy drink at the time. Perhaps burglars should be ignored provided they rearrange people’s furniture in an avante garde manner before they flee. You can’t stop people doing it but don’t try to condone it as some kind of new movement. Tell you what – why don’t all the supporters of it open up their houses – allow the lads to spray away to their hearts content on your gable wall.
ctesiphon wrote:Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly gets me thinking, which is more than I can say for Graham Knuttel.QUOTE]
How dare you sir! I have a Knuttel to which I am very attached (three little fishes with that mafia look he specialises in). They look as if they would whip your wallet and have their way with your wife if they could only get out of the frame.
Can’s stand yer man Markey though – triangles and shawlies ad nauseum. Must have turned out hundreds.
I would lock up the graffitists who deface good surfaces – it may be ok for hoardings but, if it is generally indulged it will encourage talentless clowns to deface the city. No problem having designated areas though – and can even see merit in this.
Value of mural painted over by transport workers
Irish Independent
TRANSPORT workers in London have painted over a mural by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy, erasing a piece of art estimated to be worth €370,000.
The mural, depicting a scene from the Quentin Tarantino movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ in which Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta are holding bananas instead of guns, was
spray-painted on the side of an electricity substation around five years ago.@publicrealm wrote:
@ctesiphon wrote:
Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly gets me thinking, which is more than I can say for Graham Knuttel.
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How dare you sir! I have a Knuttel to which I am very attached (three little fishes with that mafia look he specialises in). They look as if they would whip your wallet and have their way with your wife if they could only get out of the frame.
Can’s stand yer man Markey though – triangles and shawlies ad nauseum. Must have turned out hundreds.
I would lock up the graffitists who deface good surfaces – it may be ok for hoardings but, if it is generally indulged it will encourage talentless clowns to deface the city. No problem having designated areas though – and can even see merit in this.
I think what p***’s me off is the hoards of talentless muppets who deface the city. Name in case is ‘Grift’ who only has one talent, which is based around quantity rather than quality. I am sick of seeing the name Grift scrawled badly wherever I go in this city. He’s been around so long at this stage you would have expected him to impove…
Some of his thought-provoking work currently adorning Drumcondra railway bridge.
Indeed it would appear a fellow colleague has picked up on his omnipresence through the city.
Though, is Bord Bia’s and Vodafone’s commandeering of the public domain via an official stamp of approval much better?
Yeah Gift or Griff or whatever his name is, what a tool. People shouldn’t be advertising the like of Griff anywhere on the web. Griff or Grift should be consigned to the rubbish heap, uninspired graffiti scrawled on the DART line. His name is just derived from the word “Graffiti” thats how original that fool is. “What will I call myself, grafitti artist that I am?, let me think..graffiti..griffita..griff. Yes that’s it. Griff.” Plank more like.
Perhaps it’s my own fault for including this in a thread dubbed ‘Stencil Graffiti.’ Perhaps I was fully prepared for another barrage of civic-minded individuals lashing out against at the so-called handiwork of lesser organisms such as Grift who — I don’t think anyone is defending these cretins, by the way, it’s simply an easy reference point– litter the land with their crap. But I am curious to hear opinions on the Sherrif Street public art project, which does bear reference to the style and spirit of non-sanctioned graffiti everywhere, if a far cry from it in execution:
The blue tracing outline of the bridge (pictured toward the left of the image) is particularly interesting in that it loosely references stencil graffiti in technique… it also reminded me of the work of a street artist in Brooklyn named Ellis G who outlines the shadows of common objects in chalk on pavements throughout his neighborhood. While some may not call it art, it’s undeniable that his work brings a little smile to people who are strolling through the streets and are distracted by the sight of these manipulations of environment. Plus, it’s ephemeral. Washes away by morning, along with it the memory. Images and link for the curious: here.
Thoughts? Or if I have interrupted an otherwise enjoyable bout of vandal-bashing, then carry on.
I pass it quite regularly and like some of it, however some of it looks very unfinished. So it is either poor quality work or unfinshed work & I’d have to wonder why it is incomplete.
My cynical side tells me that they got bored of producing legitimate work & climbed over the wall to spraypaint the new stone cladding to the building behind 😉
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