Posts tagged: street art
Haunted Hands :: nor-spray edition
DOLK
DOLK is the alias of one of the larger up-and-coming street artists in Europe. Hailing from Bergen, Norway, DOLK has a sensibility and sardonic social attitude that garners many comparisons to Banksy. His style is stencil, predominantly black and white, and his pieces have been spotted in most major European cities, from Paris and Berlin to Oslo and Gothenburg. His work is signed in a large, bold all capital letters.
![Haunted Hands - an artist review
BLU
As street art slowly is being transformed from a temporary, illegal installment piece into an art space phenomenon, the content and quality is evolving. Tags, while forever being an integral part of graffiti and street art, don’t catch eyes any more. Rebellious, anti-capitalist sprayers like Banksy are having their pieces preserved and sold, some going for $20,000 a piece. Though, this act of turning street art and graffiti into a commodity has allowed some fantastic artists a little more leeway in producing larger, entire wall pieces. Enter Blu (real name unknown) - an Italian graffiti artist with grand vision, an incredible style, and a whole lot of spray paint. First appearing in 1999 and then defining his style in 2001 when he began using house paint and rollers mounted on extending sticks, the artist has been doing large global works since. With entire building side pieces in Berlin, Prague, Milan, and his home base, Bologna, that artist has been catching eyes for some time now. Though, to pull off these murals, he has to attain some sort of permission, thereby crossing the line from graffiti to street art, actual allowed marking upon the wall. It’s hard to turn a blind eye to a man painting something that’s 20 feet high, standing in his cherry picker with a giant paint stick. From 2006 - 2008, Blu spent extensive time in South America painting murals and doing graffiti. In 2007 in Baden, Blu made his first wall painted animation called Fantoche (which was later included as a part of the festival favorite animation Muto [2008]) These were sweeping stop motion pieces done on the street in which Blu’s characters moved and interacted with elements of their surroundings. His most recent- Big Bang Big Boom - is included after the jump, and is an amazing video, well worth the 10 minutes it takes to watch.
Blu continues to do graffiti and wall pieces, and has some works coming up in Italy and Germany. Be on the look out, and if you want to check out more, go to the official Blu website, where if you really fall in love with the artist you can buy some of his prints or drawings. Radness.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/hauntedghost/1292687196/1/tumblr_la528jnJXU1qe214n)
Haunted Hands - an artist review
BLU
As street art slowly is being transformed from a temporary, illegal installment piece into an art space phenomenon, the content and quality is evolving. Tags, while forever being an integral part of graffiti and street art, don’t catch eyes any more. Rebellious, anti-capitalist sprayers like Banksy are having their pieces preserved and sold, some going for $20,000 a piece. Though, this act of turning street art and graffiti into a commodity has allowed some fantastic artists a little more leeway in producing larger, entire wall pieces. Enter Blu (real name unknown) - an Italian graffiti artist with grand vision, an incredible style, and a whole lot of spray paint. First appearing in 1999 and then defining his style in 2001 when he began using house paint and rollers mounted on extending sticks, the artist has been doing large global works since. With entire building side pieces in Berlin, Prague, Milan, and his home base, Bologna, that artist has been catching eyes for some time now. 
Though, to pull off these murals, he has to attain some sort of permission, thereby crossing the line from graffiti to street art, actual allowed marking upon the wall. It’s hard to turn a blind eye to a man painting something that’s 20 feet high, standing in his cherry picker with a giant paint stick. From 2006 - 2008, Blu spent extensive time in South America painting murals and doing graffiti. In 2007 in Baden, Blu made his first wall painted animation called Fantoche (which was later included as a part of the festival favorite animation Muto [2008]) These were sweeping stop motion pieces done on the street in which Blu’s characters moved and interacted with elements of their surroundings. His most recent- Big Bang Big Boom - is included after the jump, and is an amazing video, well worth the 10 minutes it takes to watch.
Blu continues to do graffiti and wall pieces, and has some works coming up in Italy and Germany. Be on the look out, and if you want to check out more, go to the official Blu website, where if you really fall in love with the artist you can buy some of his prints or drawings. Radness.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
