Wall Art



This photo was taken on my visit to the East End of London.  It's really a shame that this mural hasn't been kept in better contact.  You can tell that it's really faded and it looks like a few hoodlums have marked over it a bit.  That being said this is a very strong piece to me.  I think it's works like this that seperate the labels of "graffiti" and "wall art"  There's passion in this work and so many lines.  It really delivers a message to the viewer rather than just reps a name.  Also sometimes black on white is as bold as you can get.



  



This photo was another taken on my East End walk.  The only thing that really pops into my head when I look back at this picture is blah.  It seems that multiple people have put little scribbles on it and the paint is practically all chipped away.  Accompanied by poor management one can't even comprehend what this wall is supposed to say or look like.  I would not be happy if when my city gets brought up this is an image that pops into outsiders minds. 

This photo was taken at the train station I visited in Copenhagen, Denmark.  I have to give it to the artists on this one.  Their lines are on point, there are few to no mistakes and it seems in all it was well put together.  But I feel you have to dig a little deeper than that.  Notice how I said I took this photo in Denmark.  This type of graffiti is so common.  I could get 500 shots of this same shit in London, back home in the states, as well as hundreds of other countries.  Also, if I were an artist of this type, an important roll that played into my works would be geographics.  This mural is done on the side wall at a run down train station.  This is where people will stop looking at it as art and start looking at it as vandalism.  I don't know about the artists but I'd pick the first.  



This wall art was some I found in the dorms of my friend's university in Aarhus, Denmark.  This is so cool.  How many university dorms are old and boring with plain white walls?  If I walked into my dorm everyday and got to view great art lining the walls as I did so, I can guarantee there would always be a smile on my face.  Also, this work had to be done by different people who had access to these dorms.  They are leaving their stories behind for the newcomers to see.  You could almost look at this as tradition.  I think it's really great to be able to see all the diversity here.