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    Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona

    Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility

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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    Barcelona's graffiti is amazing artwork. I remember taking several photos of it in the busines district the last time I was there.
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    Edited by NerD: Blattella at 09/24/09 1:32 PM NerD: Blattella was starred NerD: Blattella was unstarred
    Image of Ultimate Cowboy Ultimate Cowboy
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    You could probably do an entire post just about sci-fi graff.
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    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment Ultimate Cowboy was starred Ultimate Cowboy was unstarred
    Image of heatstroke heatstroke
    09/24/09

    @Ultimate Cowboy: triviagasm list on top 15 best science-fiction street art....GO!
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    09/24/09


    @heatstroke: I spotted this one in Granada. I'm all for the Trekkie graffiti, but really, Search for Spock?
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    09/24/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Oh fine, it got cut off. It says STAR TREK III.
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    Image of Sam Sam
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    That looks sweet! hope their local council doesn't paint over it any time soon. Why is it the governmaent never seems to be able to tell the difference between art and vandalism?
    p.s. Ive always thought it was funny how such a chauvanist character is called "Bender"
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    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) promoted this comment Sam was starred Sam was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/24/09

    @Sam: Fingers crossed its one of those new Graffiti walls. Designed to get them to stop spraying on illegal stuff. That said, it still might get painted over for another idiot to spray 'I IM WELZ GUD INNIT' in ten foot letters!!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    Or is it Bender's illegitimate child when he mated with a cylon?
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    This stuff always makes me smile. A good bit of Graffiti always brightens up the suburbs. I really liked that Dark Crystal one that you featured a while back.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    08/12/09

    In reply to Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility
    Certainly lowbrow, but has an expensive-art-school feel to them. Not complaining; they're well done. Just very much commodities that get angled in certain studio art classes... a kid paints superheros 'cuz he's bored of "fine" art, then gets lucky selling a few pieces to the right people that seem like novelty which generate buzz (because art galleries talk, and have rent/overhead just like a retail store).
    I'm speculating wildly here about this artist. But there is this push for stylized post-pop lowbrow art, that only has one direction: cash n' carry art shows that really don't spur along a dialog.
    The artist doesn't need an "overarching message or sociological comment", but that's why people buy art that matches the couch. Art galleries are happy to sell the hipster equivalent of "couch art".
    I hope this artist has more arrows in his quiver.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/12/09

    @gods-n-clods: Thank you for explaining clearly what I only had a vague intuition of. I agree with you and now I know why.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    08/12/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Incidentally, I looked at this guy's page -after- looking at this article. He's in the "BoHo" tastemaker's circle. Los Angeles is turning into the lowbrow-boutique-art showcase; artists make lil' pieces in bulk that can be flipped for petty cash. The artists compromise vision (quality) to make grocery money, get resume cred, and make the scene. Galleries will jock a seller, and would favor some savant who sold wacky crap than a recent MFA grad with school loans to repay. Hooks and gimmicks replace style. In short: this guy is so LA-hot I couldn't look at his oversized sunglasses, messy hair, ironic t-shirt, and dangling cigarette for a second longer. He's maneuvered himself to do large works, so good for him.
    Sour grapes for me? Ya wanna buy a painting? What color is your couch? /rant
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    Image of CarrerCrytharis CarrerCrytharis
    08/12/09

    In reply to Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility
    There's *been* at least two female Robins, of course.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment CarrerCrytharis was starred CarrerCrytharis was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/12/09

    @CarrerCrytharis: I was thinking that. I don't even follow Batman, but I thought "hasn't there been a girl as Robin?"
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    08/12/09

    In reply to Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility
    I kind of like 'em. It's something I'd like to see in a hallway around a corner I wasn't expecting.
    * sensibility, btw ;)
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    Image of Lamar Henderson Lamar Henderson
    08/12/09

    In reply to Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility
    *YAAAWWWN!!!*
    Oh, I'm sorry. Was that rude?
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    08/12/09

    @Lamar Henderson: Careful, yawn too loudly and you might end up in jail for 6 months:
    [www.msnbc.msn.com]
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    08/12/09

    In reply to Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility
    By all accounts I should really like this.
    It's okay that I don't right?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/12/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: It's not like you expressed your disinterest in a boorish manner or anything.
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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    08/12/09

    @Grey_Area: Some of them are amazing -- that Wolverine! Some I don't quite get. Why does She-Hulk have a giant bird head?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    08/12/09

    @Grey_Area: As a general rule, I prefer to express my disinterest in a Boerish manner:

    "Ek hou nie van hierdie skilderye baie."

    @Ed Grabianowski: I feel like the Wolverine one is...I don't know...kind of trying to hard?

    The She-Hulk is actually probably my favorite. I like the way it walks the line between representational and abstract/totally random.
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    Edited by 92BuickLeSabre at 08/12/09 9:41 AM 92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
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