Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen



These two artists are painters that do installation works as working artists as well as street graffiti artists. Both consider street art such as graffiti, pieces of art similar to how regular consumers consider advertisements as artwork. In the movie, it talked about street credibility and selling out as a street artist when it comes to making revenue from their artwork. 

When Kilgallen was talking about how people consider graffiti garbage and not advertisements. It made me think about the career I wanted to go into as a graphic designer and how graphic designers help make the advertisements they consider garbage. The whole thought of it made me want to think of ways to combine the two so both the average consumer as well as street artists can appreciate both ends of the spectrum at the same time and maybe see a different side to what they consider is garbage and would erase the thought of selling out. I really enjoyed the works that Barry McGee did in his installation shown in the movie. It made me feel inspired to see such large scale paintings done with his own creative style.

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