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Crack Is Wack is a mural created in 1986 by American artist and social activist Keith Haring.. Located near the Harlem River Drive in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, the mural serves as a warning against crack cocaine use, which was rampant in major cities across the United States during the mid to late 1980s.
The psychedelic art movement is similar to the surrealist movement in that it prescribes a mechanism for obtaining inspiration. Whereas the mechanism for surrealism is the observance of dreams, a psychedelic artist turns to drug induced hallucinations. Both movements have strong ties to important developments in science.
Vázquez's abstract paintings are rooted in his urban upbringing and often incorporate the spontaneous markings commonly found in large city walls and surfaces. Vázquez combines his past in a now extinct New York with painting to create abstract pieces that assault your mind with color and singular visual concepts."
Dare (graffiti artist) (1968-2010) real name Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding, was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator Harald Naegeli (born December 4, 1939) – known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s
Guerrilla art is a street art movement that first emerged in the UK, but has since spread around the world and is now established in most countries that already had developed graffiti scenes. In fact, it owes so much to the early graffiti movement, in the United States guerrilla art is still referred to as 'post-graffiti art'.
Banksy, active since the 1990s, is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director whose real identity is unknown. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.
In March 2007 one of Banksy's early pieces, a 25 ft (7.6 m)-long artwork featuring a collection of blue shapes with the artist's trademark tag, on the side of garages in Albion Road, Easton, Bristol, was mistakenly painted over by graffiti-removal contractors Nordic. They had been asked by Bristol City Council to tackle graffiti adjacent to the ...
Richard Art Hambleton (June 23, 1952 – October 29, 2017) was a Canadian [1] artist known for his work as a street artist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s which also included Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat .