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Inspiration from Artists Week 79 : Street Art and Australian Silo Art.
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The scale of these just amazes me, and I want to know, how they actually do some of them!? I assume they would start with a painting plan on paper or more likely digital, then somehow scale that up big time! Also are they spray painting or what? They seem to me too precise for that?
The one that amazes me in particular (actually they all do) is the person playing the double bass, ridiculous!
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How they're done is indeed interesting - or would be, if only I knew, anyway! Obviously, on the purely physical side a touch of scaffolding and ladders is involved, so that's right out of the question for me - anyway: I love the crocodile/alligator, and the turtle. All of these images are brilliantly accomplished - the cup and bird, the Rolls Royce, for instance - and I wonder, once you've achieved something on this scale, if you can ever face doing small pictures again.
Some I don't "like" - by which I mean I think some of these buildings would have been better left undecorated; and I can do without the sentimental images. But nearly all of them really need a preservation order to be slapped on them: they're just too good to be erased, or painted over by a zealous local authority. The cello player - well, that's a case of the subject embellishing the building; and I like the more restrained colours. How ever they're done, there's so much sheer talent on view here: presumably they're all using spray cans, though some might have more advanced equipment - it's all making me feel a bit inadequate!
And another showing an artist at work. A lot of them use crane lifts.
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What an undertaking. I'm reminded of James Rosenquist, a major figure in Pop Art in America. Back in the 1950s he was a billboard artist. Billboards are huge advertisements lining roads and high up on buildings...they used to be painted by hand until the printing industry got their act in order. James gave this up when one of his friends fell to his death whilst working on a billboard painting. James went on to become one of the premier pop artists, still working large scale, but not having to climb up a skyscraper to do it.
Along with all the other attributes these artists need, we have to add nerves of steel (in some cases.)
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This is why I've been slow to praise in the past, because I suspect Stephen Weight is right; and that's why I wondered aloud how they were done.
Either way - physically I couldn't do them; so that's a point to consider. However, if they're merely stock pictures projected on to a wall, well yes, I still couldn't do them; but there would still be evidence of paint-mixing skill, and precise application with materials I should have thought rebelled against precision.
Tell me it's all easy, though, and I should just lap it up!
