Mexican Muralists del autor Desmond Rochfort (Editorial Laurence King) pertenece desde ya a un libro histórico. La temática es a mi modo de ver una lectura obligada para todo aquel interesado en conocer las raíces de nuestra cultura del graffiti y del arte urbano en Sudamérica.
Los tres grandes muralistas mexicanos representados en este libro no necesitan una gran Introducción: Jose Clemente OROZCO, Diego RIVERA y David Alfonso SIQUEIROS. Ahora leyendas, fueron estos personajes quienes se convirtieron en los mayores expositores del movimiento muralista mexicano desde 1920 hasta 1970.
Para muchos a tal punto de ser el mayor movimiento de arte público del siglo pasado.....Todos saben lo que paso después de los '70.
El libro nos cuenta la historia que llevo al muralismo mexicano a su apogeo, su desarrollo y sus facetas sociales. Desde Rivera y Orozco en los '30, '40 y '50 y Siqueiros en los '50, '60 y '70.
Con más de 100 imágenes de murales pintados por estos tres artistas en Estados Unidos y en México.
Para todo fanático del muralismo mexicano, amante del arte y la cultura Mexicana, seguidor de Rivera y Siqueiros, historiador y todo aquel que aprecia un buen pedazo de cultura y historia en un libro, Mexican Muralists los cautivará.
A mí personalmente este libro es alucinante. De partida el muralismo mexicano
es e.o. una de las fuentes principales de inspiración a lo que fueron las
brigadas políticas de los años '60 y '70 en Chile como también en Argentina.
El muralismo político surgido en Sudamérica se vio muy
influenciado por la cultura Mexicana de plasmar lo social, lo cotidiano y la
actualidad sobre los muros de la gran ciudad y en los pueblos.
Así a su vez el muralismo
mexicano es de una u otra forma el antecesor del graffiti para nosotros en
Sudamérica.
La calidad de del libro "Mexican Muralists" y su buen contenido
lo hacen un documento muy recommendable!
First off, we like the work of wood sculptor Randall
Rosenthal because he
does really fantastic work with one-block of wood, and transforms it into
something that looks so realistic it's scary. Second, we like Randall because
he is not afraid to show you some of his process to get to the final product
from said block of wood. Más info acá. via Juxtapoz.
Here is Randall's process from taking a block of wood and carving it into a
full box of baseball cards you see above.
Lettering: A reference Manual of Techniques por Andrew Haslam
Les
presento con Lettering un libro o mas bien un manual sobre la tipografía y sus
técnicas aplicables.
Recién
salido
KELP.cl te informa sobre lo último en el mundo
Letras, tipografía y textos están en todos lados. Cubren nuestro espacio físico
de forma implacable: Fachadas, Carreteras, Diagramas, Portadas, etc. Nos proven
de información y promueven siempre algun mensaje: marcas, productos, envases y pensamientos. Pueden estar iluminados o animas en Televisión, Ipods, Peliculas
o Computadores.
La pregunta
es:
Acá entra
en escena Lettering: A reference Manual of Techniques. Usando una combinación
de textos explicativos con muchos ejemplos y gráficos
Me
impresionó lo detallista que es el libro y la forma de explicar y mostrar toda
la información.
Todos
ocupamos letras y tipografías...sobre todo el grafitero vive con ellas. Pero
sabemos realmente de donde vienen? Este libro lo explica
Incluye caligrafias, letras en 3D, typesetting, letras sobre textiles, letras iluminadas, letras impresas y muchas muchas mas (letras = tipografías)
Este libro es un manual, un documento de gran valor. A mi
me gusto mucho la información y para ampliar la sabiduria respecto a uno de los
fundamentos
Puedes ver acá la película completa "Inside Oute" en donde aparece e.o. ZEVS y otros artistas urbano en ciudades como Nueva York, Sao Paolo y Estocolmo.
Oficial:
ONLINE WORLD PREMIERE. "Inside Outside" follows ZEVS and other so-called street artists from New York, Stockholm, Copenhagen and São Paulo. They all make a living off their art, but they also have an urge to exhibit their work illegally in the streets. "Inside Outside" is a film about the energy artists get when working in the street. An energy they're missing when exhibiting in galleries and museums, an energy that brings life to their art and to their own lives. It´s an energy that's partly caused by the fact that everything these artists do in the street is illegal; "Anything that gives you security is eventually going to restrict you at some point", says Swoon about the art galleries.
Comenzando como un chico normal que hacia tagging en el metro berlines, llegando a pintar las primeras piezas con su crew. Cambiando su nombre desde "Fetzo" a "Sor VI" hasta llegar a "ODEM". Esto a su vez lo introdujo a un estilo de vida muy particular: el de un grafitero. Una escena juvenil en auge en el sector Friedrichstrasse en Berlin.
A small Italian town hosted an amazing festival featuring Roa, Blu, Pin, and PixelPancho. Let's go back over the Festival "Draw The Line".
Compobasso, unknown Italian city for the common man was the theater of an incredible street art festival. Draw The Line is a projectwhose main lines are the regeneration of urban space (for the recoveryof degraded city areas) and the creation of giant artistic paintings.These areas will provide supports to artworks in order to make places of communication and expression.
via fatcap.
The history of the Crochet
Tree It's about 10 years that I
live far away from my home, my culture. After some years I realised to start to
forget my language. For fighting this horrible fact I'm reading more in
hungarian. This winter I've found some unknown poems from one of the most famous
hungarian poets, Sándor Petőfi and immediately felt in love! He used several
times rainbow and spiderweb motifs in his works. Who ever seen my flickr knows
well that I'm "obsessed" with both of them! @;) After some times when
I returned home I went to my city's theater with my Mom. The name of this
theater is Petőfi Színház. Yet another time him, I've tought! The recitation
was shocking (in the right way): A Midsummer Night's Dream's adaptation from
William Shakespeare. At the end I felt like a forest creature in a fairytale!
As we were exit I've seen a tree in front of the theater. It was strange, nude,
"devious"... And I finally understood what do I have to do: Dress up
the Petőfi Színház's tree with Sándor Petőfi inspired rainbow crochet spiderwebs
for give him a fairytale look! During the crocheting progress
I've found myself wondering... How to answer to children when they are asking
me: how is it possible that a tree is rainbow coloured? So I wrote a little
fairytale for them, just for fun. I'm a crocheter NOT a writer! Be indulgent!
%) : Once Rainbow said: Every work of mine are based on numerology and colour therapy. This tree contains 13 colours
(which means 39 colour combinations). 13 because of the 13 chakras. I've found
a site times before and I'm happier since I've seen that all the Oversoul
Chakras are rainbow colored! @;) Toda una teoría de Babukatorium.
"I've already seen the whole world, I appear for some minutes here and
immediately I have to run to another place... I'm tired, I would like to go on
holiday!"
In April it was raining with sunshine several times, so Rainbow visited
Veszprém and felt in love with the city. There were colorful flowers everywhere
and people were kind. From the sky it seemed like a beautiful, quiet little
city. As Rainbow was looking around she've seen a lonely tree in a park rounded
by red tulips. People were walking hand in hand under him, children were
playing near to the tree and Rainbow could hear also the music from the theater
next to the park. She was envy for the moveless peace of that tree, for the
closeness of people... And she tought:
"I want to stand like that tree! I want to be a part of people's life for
awhile! This should be the perfect holiday for me!"
So Rainbow said goodbye to the sky and came down to hug tightly the tree!
(Don't worry, Rainbow's sisters and brothers are still trevelling all over the
world and Rainbow will return to work too after the relaxing holiday!)
Here is the link for it:
www.holographicsound.com/chakra-colors.html
I started to install it on May 3rd 2011, with new moon in taurus.
3 months for crochet, 3 days for installing 247 spiderweb circles. Number 3 and
13 returns everywhere in this project!
The colours are following from red to violet like chakras and they are
installed like the snake (Kundalini) is going up to the tree.
This time, JR and his team have set up four giant photobooths (Centre Pompidou Paris-Style) from 3-11th of September and turning out 1,000 photos each day. Both Palestinians and Israelis are invited to visit and receive a larg-format portrait. The portrait is given in exchange for a personal statement, and they can paste it wherever they wish.
The project is called "Time Is Now, Yalla!" because "Yalla!" is an Arabic word used by both Palestinians and Israelis to say "let's go".
Expo
"Graff Itinerante"
Graffiti en Vivo: Viernes 14 de Octubre 2011, desde las 12:00.
Plaza de la Independencia, frente Teatro UdeC, Concepción.
Exposición: Del 17 al 21 de Octubre 2011. De 10:00 a 18:00 hrs.
Sala Exposiciones, Escuela de Arquitectura UBB.
Collao 1202, Concepción
De Luzinterruptus:
"This is our last intervention "Radioactive Control". It was created for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has brought into question the safety systems at the nuclear power plants.
With our mysterious army of 100 illuminated radioactive figures, which advanced threateningly on the natural environment of the festival, we wanted to invite reflection regarding the use and abuse of nuclear energy, cheap in economic terms, but which can
