06-01-11 – Urban Art

Would an outdoor sculpture garden be OK for this contest, or is orionid looking for more of a random, unknown type of artist.

I guess what I mean is: Would you rather have a picture taken of graffiti, or one from the Smithsonian Sculpture garden?

Thanks!!

How about commissioned art for a city walk space? Local artists in Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale have all done pieces for those Arizona cities. Some are pretty cool, and I was thinking of those.

Sweet. That just reminded me of the Bansky statue I have in my archives. Doesn’t look like I’ve used it either. Thanks orionid 😀

I guess I don’t visit the sections of the city interesting enough to have high-quality graffiti. I’ve been shooting my tail off over the last couple weeks, but have rarely come across any good graffiti besides some Sharpie scrawls on light poles (although one of my entries certainly looks to be graffiti, just not the spray-painted kind).

I’ve got a few shots I’m pretty pleased with, though. Looking forward to that contest.

Japan is really lacking in graffiti.
Normally, that would be a good thing, but not this time.

However, weird, huge-eyed, school-girl-uniform-clad figures they do have.

QueenM,

Professional urban art is cool, too. The only thing that I think should be avoided is obvious classical art in a museum. So, say Rodin’s thinker as part of the traveling louvre exhibit, not so much, but a concrete thinker painted in your local high school colors would be fair game. Pretty much the only sloid litmus I can think of is gallery – no, outdoors – yes, anything in between, use your best faith judgement.

well, the topic says “urban”. To me that means “city”. My question really pertains to the location of said art. if there is fantastic outdoor art on a farm in kansas, is that OK? or a small town somewhere or the suburbs…

urban is the code word for ghetto. you will have to travel into the most ghetto area you can reach in a 4 hour drive. anything else doesn’t count. and please be safe.

🙂