This has made me think of another great anrtist that also combines a graphic style ( grafitti) with words and personal stories: Keith Haring.
Keith Haring was an american artist whose artkor became extremely popular from early 80's up to today. His signature single-stroke technique is now widely know.
Most of his paintigs where biographical and usually contained words as well.
For example, on this 1985 paintig, Haring tell his own struggle with AIDS. During the 80's many rumors appeared regarding AIDS. Haring, an AIDS patient himself had to face many criticism, thus he made this painting " IGNORANCE= FEAR/ SILENCE = DEATH/ FIGHT AIDS, ACT UP"
Here we have another painting depicting his battle with AIDS.
The painting above "Safe Sex" was extremely contreversial... can you guess the message behind it ?
His painting not only showed his personal struggle , but also the american reality during the 80's
As seen during class, words are not the only way in which artist convey a message or depict a reality. Do you know of any other artist that mixes text with images?
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ResponderEliminarWhen it comes to mixing words with images the first artist that comes to my my mind is Rob Ryan due to the fact that recently discover him. You may not be familiar with his work, so was I 2 years ago, but his style is very easy to recognize, he is a British visual artist that creates master pieces out of paper cuts. He also works with other materials including ceramics, textiles, homewares and even jewellery . You can check out some of his work here http://robryanstudio.com/archive-categories/papercuts/
ResponderEliminarWhen I saw a Keith Haring painting on this blog I immediately did the conection with Spiegelman's work.
ResponderEliminarI would say that there are many examples of graphic artists. But the one that I personally admire the most is Alan Moore (you can see a brief introduction of his ideas in my entry down below). He is the creator of V for vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell and many others. With his graphic novels you can se an explicit message of political issues. Additionally, you can find questionings about ethics and morality. Compeltely recommended to anybody who tend to read novels such as Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World" or George Orwell's "1984".
When you mentioned graffiti I immediately thought of Banksy, whose work is all around the world. Banksy´s work illustrates the social nonconformism with governments, social class discrimination and capitalism, and as the pictures you´ve shown of Keith Haring, Banksy pictures with simple images big and deep messages.
ResponderEliminarThe interesting thing about Banksy is that his real identity is not known, he is one of the most wanted street artists in England and the US but he is still producing controversial street art around the world.
I think that as a graphic novel, street art is very effective at sending a message. Messages are always clear and difficult to being mistaken and are always controversial.