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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Phillip Lehman (born Philip, alternatively spelled Philippe) is a Franco-American artist, music producer, and cave diver best known as Bando, the graffiti pioneer of France who helped popularize the medium in Europe throughout the 1980s.
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
In 1971, Diaz was first introduced to the burgeoning graffiti culture by his older cousin Gilberto "SIETE" Diaz when he was just 12 years old. [4] His cousin lived in Washington Heights, which was a locus of graffiti production at the time, and taught Diaz about the traditional style of writing graffiti: combining a moniker, or nickname, with a number. [6]
As of 2004, Monack had become a tattoo artist in Pittsburgh. [11] When asked by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about his opinion on the latest crop of the city's graffiti artists, he described them as "garbage." [11] Though, even years after ceasing his tagging, Mook's "infamy precedes him in many circles of the city."
In 1982 the New York graffiti writer Midg produced the Caine 1 Free for Eternity top-to-bottom whole car, an image of which was later used as an epitaph in the book Subway Art. [23] [24] In 2010 the memorial was reimagined using a Shakespearean quote and painted as a mural as part of the Subway Art History Project. [25] An essay written by ...
Also, in 2010, Crash was commissioned to create a special limited edition luggage for TUMI, Inc. [13] In 2019, Crash participated in the New York City's "Beyond the Streets," bringing a massive new showcase of the evolution of graffiti and street art to the city that helped it become a global phenomenon.
2009: From Style Writing to Art (A Street Art Anthology). Texts by Magda Danysz, Marie-Noëlle Dana, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, Drago, Italy; 2010: Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art. Texts by Patrick Nguyen, Stuart Mackenzie, Die Gestalten Verlag; 2011: 100 artistes du Street Art. With direction by Paul Ardenne.