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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."
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.
Erik C. Wahl is an American graffiti artist, speed-painter, [1] [2] author, motivational speaker [3] and entrepreneur [4] based in San Diego. [5] He owns The Wahl Group, a consultancy firm, and has spoken at conventions by Microsoft, Disney, and other corporations. [6]
Sane & Smith are particularly notable for painting on the top level of New York's Brooklyn Bridge, after which they were sued by the City of New York for $3 million, the biggest lawsuit to date against graffiti writers. [2] The work covered both sides of the Manhattan tower of the bridge, and was visible for miles. [3]
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 ...
LSD art is any art or visual displays inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, also known colloquially as acid). [1] Artists and scientists have been interested in the effect of LSD on drawing and painting since it first became available for legal use and general ...
"I just wanted to meet him, he was an art hero of mine," Basquiat recalled. [2] By 1982, Basquiat made the transition from graffiti artist to one of the leading figures in the Neo-expressionism movement. [3] Bruno Bischofberger became Basquiat's art dealer and gave him a one-man show at his Zurich gallery in September 1982. [4]