as an art historian, may i just say: fuck banksy.
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instead of banksy, the white guy who has been funded and coddled by the elite as the darling of the circle-jerking art white male art world, TRY:
- Women on Walls - AKA Sit El 7eta (in Arabic), which is about women in Egypt who are street artists
- Malina Suliman, Afghanistan – Kabul Art Project
- Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan – Kabul Art Project
- Jean-Michel Basquiat – Black American Artist
- Women Street artists painting in Lima, Peru for International Women’s Day
- Lee Quinones - forefather of American Street Art and Puero Rican/Latino American
- LADY PINK - Latina/Ecuadoran American, you’ll know her by the “abuse of power comes as no surprise” shirt.
- Mata Ruda - also latino
- El Dercetor - Peruvian Muralist/Street Artist
- Tati Suarez - Latina Woman
- Bastardilla - a woman from Colombia
- Fatcap is a street art website resource – I linked to Cape Town, but you can search geographically
- Global Street Art
- Ralph Ziman just made the world’s largest wheat paste art in South Africa
- 10 women artists better than banksy check out Lady Aiko!
- HAVE YOU HEARD OF SWOON?
- African-American and Iranian artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh of “STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE” fame
- Nardstar* from south africa
- Zhang Dali - China
- literally ANYONE BUT BANKSY
- FUCK BANKSY
Not sure if these make me hungry for cake (even in my nauseated state) or for flapper dresses and speakeasies. Love you, Art Deco.
Watercolour Architecture
Korean artist Sunga Park was not professionally trained in art, but her surreal art works would make you think otherwise. Using watercolors, she creates paintings that seem to float mysteriously between dream and reality.
Marcia Blaessle, 1972. The work is one of many pieces of psychedelic art done by recovering teenage drug addicts in 1970s West Germany. The pieces were collected and published in the book Rausch I’m Bild and brought to public light again as the the cover art for Youth Lagoon’s album Wondrous Bughouse.
The art of Aakash Nihalani was brought to my attention earlier this year and I’ve been hooked on his work ever since. The New York-born, Jersey-raised, Brooklyn-based artist initially went to school for political science but ended up finding his calling early, finishing with a BFA. “I had creative inclinations as a kid but art as a career wasn’t an option the way I was brought up. Instead I was steered towards professions like law or medicine. When I did switch to art, I think being an outsider gave me a fresh perspective on what art was, or could be, which allowed me to experiment freely,” he explains. (via Design Milk)
Aakash Nihalani on Tumblr
Massive Art Nouveau-Inspired Mural in Montreal
“For 16 days straight, from dawn to dusk, five highly determined Montreal-based artists (who make up the artist run collective A’shop) worked on a graffiti mural of a Mother Nature-esque Madonna or a modern-day version of “Our Lady of Grace.” Inspired by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, the crew created this breathtakingly beautiful five story mural using 500 cans of spray paint in over 50 different colors.” [ My Modern Metropolis ]
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