Comments on: The Future of Street Art http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/ Melbourne Art & Culture Critic Sat, 18 May 2013 09:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tracie http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/#comment-3083 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:54:14 +0000 http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/?p=2721#comment-3083 Thank you, it would be much appreciated! Our current public art opportunities can be found at http://www.wagga.nsw.gov.au/publicart

Thanks Mark

]]> By: Mark Holsworth http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/#comment-3080 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:57:54 +0000 http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/?p=2721#comment-3080 This is my pessimistic view but I’m not as negative as Jones. Street art is a kind of folk art, guerilla decorating of the city or street design, with no theory and an anti-academic attitude. But that doesn’t make it the “philistines revenge” because the classic philistine sees art as equal to ordinary objects, that there is no value difference in looking at a painting or looking at advertising (indeed a philistine might see some advertising as better if it provides useful information). On the other hand, street artists do love their art. I don’t know if the breakthrough moment for street art will come with writing about their art or somebody doing something better on the streets but it would be fun to read something that is the equivalent of Claus Oldenberg “I Am For Art” 1961. “I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in the museum. I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap & still comes out on top.”

]]> By: CDH http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/#comment-3077 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:16:27 +0000 http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/?p=2721#comment-3077 I think you’re absolutely right to describe it as a folk art. Jonathan Jones the critic for the Guardian called street art the ‘philistines revenge’ and he’s kind of right- it’s made by people who hate the turner prize and never go to the NGV. It has no art theory associated with it and so it doesn’t really fit into art history. It should be more accurately called street design.

I would like to see street artists writing more essays about their practice; theory and reasoning.

]]> By: Mark Holsworth http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/#comment-3076 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:46:47 +0000 http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/?p=2721#comment-3076 Thanks Tracie. Would you like me to put a note on my Facebook page for street artists to get in touch with you if they want to paint in Wagga?

]]> By: Tracie http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-future-of-street-art/#comment-3075 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:27:04 +0000 http://melbourneartcritic.wordpress.com/?p=2721#comment-3075 Interesting thoughts to consider, as I am currently on the look out for a street artist for a project in country NSW…… However I do love the ephemeral nature, the discoveries in strange little lane ways, the feeling you have just discovered a rare beauty not seen by the masses. But everything comes to an end.

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