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    Spray Paint Superheros Get a Street Art Sensibility

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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
    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    07/31/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    Epic Win of "Mythic Proportions"
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    put your tentacles up in the air
    and wave 'em like you just don't care

    #@!
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    Young Cthulhu always wondered why he could never win at hide and seek...
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    This reminds me of a store in San Francisco that has two legs sticking out of the windows above the door. That store had great wigs.
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    Image of My_Latest_Incarnation My_Latest_Incarnation
    07/30/09

    @LittleDragon: Oddly enough I didn't think they looked like tentacles...I thought they looked like dragon tails and couldn't figure out why the building had so many dragon asses sticking out the window. Bad case of (methane) gas or what?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    07/30/09

    @My_Latest_Incarnation: Ok now you have me wondering if dragon shit makes good fuel.
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    Image of My_Latest_Incarnation My_Latest_Incarnation
    07/31/09

    @LittleDragon: Works with pig shit. Can't see why not dragons. It would be more high octane, of course. Like in 'Guards! Guards!' by Terry Pratchett.
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    If you're not causing property damage can you honestly say you're having fun?
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    very cool.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    He did it wrong.
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    Image of tuacker tuacker
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    So the giant squid got time to visit all those places but for a short appearance in Watchmen it didn't have any? Bastard.
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    Kpibca promoted this comment Edited by tuacker at 07/30/09 1:45 PM tuacker was starred tuacker was unstarred
    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    I see this on lawn's across America come Halloween 2010.
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    Image of CaptainNemo CaptainNemo
    07/30/09

    In reply to Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
    "Do it?"

    Dan, I'm not some Republic Serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there was the slightest chance of you affecting it's out come?

    I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment CaptainNemo was starred CaptainNemo was unstarred
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