From Ken C Sent Sat, May 8th 1999, 00:24
From Ken C Sent Sat, May 8th 1999, 00:24
Sure. There are plenty of graf artist doing extremely well today. There was an an article in Thursday's New York Times about successful graf artists(Art, Borne of Splotches From the Underground). It features Kel First Rodiguez (who now is a web page designer. He designed the Dow Jones 10,000 web page) , Lady Pink (who gets paid big bucks for murals) Blade ,Zephyr and Futura 2000. Twist (or Twister) has been a nineties standout. But I think the art he shows in galleries and museums resembles his street graf too much. It makes it difficult to figure out whether he is producing street art or fine art. Basquiat, Kenny Scharff and Keith Haring's art is influenced by graf but it did not resemble street art. --- "Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories]" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > I don't know of this counts but there's a show here > in NYC of Barry McGee > aka Twist, a fairly well known west coast tagger. It > was really cool > stuff, I think the show is travelling nationwide. I > would call that > genuine recognition... > > peace > > Nate > > > > On Fri, 7 May 1999, david turgeon wrote: > > > > > > > & then pop stars like 3d (whatever his skills > may be) get in museums for > > > > face value, mostly. i have yet to hear of a > genuine graffiti artist get > > > > that kind of recognition. > > > you can kind of count jean-michel basquiat in > there. > > > > perhaps, but that was a while ago. many graffitis > have been done since > > then, & i'm sure better ones. though, thinking > back, perhaps they look > > a hell lot better on the streets than in a museum > after all. :) > > (though i doubt that's the reason why you don't > see them in museums.) > > > > -- > > david turgeon at http://www.notype.com > > > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com