Viral Small Art

So the other recent posts haven't been of small art - but this one is.

Andre the Giant - one of the best and most pervasive and most often reinterpreted pieces of viral art. I found this one on my way through security heading back to New York from Milwaukee. But I've seen Andre art in Europe, under train tressels, in schools, on the sides of buildings, and online.

Milwaukee street art

On a visit to Milwaukee for my cousin's wedding I found myself with some time to explore downtown Milwaukee. Down an alley near the heart of the city, I came across this vibrantly painted wall. It seemed the work of only a few artists and spoke to a number of political and social themes.



Closer to the museum I found a few chalk drawings. This ebullient squirrel is my favorite from the set.

NYC Lower East Side - street art as advertisement

Since I've moved to this neighborhood I've been noticing the street art more often.

These visually strong and massive works dominate a section of Ludlow just above Delancey.
These again stand on the edge of advertising. Around the corner, in a small gallery the artists work is sold - on t-shirts, hoodies, giant posters, and commissions can be requested. It is graphically strong work - and the artist does deserve recognition - but I found I looked at the work with a cooler eye after finding the gallery.

Fame Game isn't advertising - but it is in the same area. It's one of a few pieces of multimedia grafitti I've seen. A carefully cut palette spells out "Fame Game" and the collage and grafitti on the wall behind speaks to many images of commentary on fame.

Under a Seattle Bridge

Parts of a series of large and fairly innocent grafitti under an overpass and along the edge of a gully full of old growth trees.