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Why the constant hard-on about this? Perhaps you should consult your doctor about priapism.
As a work of public art, "Amaze" was utterly undistinguished. It was just commissioned graffito, nothing more.
Want an example of impactful public art? Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" was art.
Hey "guest" - Robert Smithson's spiral jetty is probably the least impactful bit of public art ever - hardly anyone has seen it, you practically have to fly over it to see it, it spent much of it's life underwater ... extremely inaccessable , unless you consider pictures in art history texts accessible. Not that I question it's value - it's amazing. Amaze's amaze however, popped up overnight and got our whole neighborhood buzzing ... seen by tons of locals and tourists alike ... major "subversive" street art at one of SF's most famous corners ... now that's "impactful".
Cheers.
vandalism is not art
amaze was a lot of yellow paint, with some brown paint. It involved technical skills anybody could pick up in a day. The artist made giant block letters, I know many third graders who are fond of making big block letters too.
Amaze only amazed me in that some asshole could get away with the hours it must have taken to paint that without the police arresting him. That is what amazed me.
guests: it was a legal piece. ill buy you the paint, show me what you can do after a day of practice. i assure you its not easy.
commissioned work is not vandalism.
"major "subversive" street art at one of SF's most famous corners ... now that's "impactful."
Please...these days grafitti is about as subversive as a CCA student from La Jolla handing out communist pamphlets at the 24th St. Bart station.
"'impactful'"
hee!
sigh ... it's not what it's made of or the skill level that it took, it's that they did it ... so yes, your third-grader could have done it, but they didn't.
Subversive? It was some guy writing his name in big letters. The Gap store was more subversive than that.
If somebody had smeared feces on the windows of that GAP store and called it "their art" and said it was commissioned, I'm sure half the people in this forum would be defending it as the greatest thing man had ever done for the arts.
Really the problem is when you try to pass feces (or in the case of Amaze, just plain shit) off as art you'll have 1000 lemmings panting to swallow your load because you're so "creative", when really all you did was deface a building, uglify a neighborhood, and spell out your own f-ing name. When it comes to this shit the only thing that is amazing is the number of people willing to call anything and everything art. Hey, maybe in that way Amaze is a comment on dumb ass art-whore lemmings, in that case Amaze might actually be art!
Believe it or not, guest # 13, but not everybody subscribes to the theory that art has to hang on a wall in some gallery. The art snobs on this forum are truly exposing themselves for what they are -- SNOBS!
Snobs, I might add, who ignore basic facts like the owner of the store commissioned this piece, and snobs who lecture everyone on what is "art" when it is one the most subjective and circular arguments ever known to man. Your definition of art is anything but definitive, so quit being a condescending yuppie jerk off.
Perhaps Amaze's following is a comment on the pretentious art fags and the millions of lemmings who feel you need to pay $1,000 for a painting for it to be called art. There will always be a detracting culture that attempts to make art more accessible, more personal, and your disdain for people who disagree with your narrow definition of art, no matter how vitriolic, will never diminish that. Hate the work all you want, that's fine. But for all of you anti-Amaze folks, you're far from the ultimate authority on art, so shut your pretentious pie hole. Dicks.
Hey look! A plump "homeless" person on a cell phone. Sure I'll give you a dollar, your roaming plan doesn't come cheap. And all those calls to your mom back in Pleasanton really add up. It's probably a f**king iPhone.
[14] I AM an art fag.
Could you pls let me know your address so I can come visit you with my spray cans and glass etchers? We could have a Peach Martini together too!
Stop talking about pie hole dicks. That's making me hot.
mariconsoy - at no point did he back up little tagger kids. there is a huge difference between doing a legal piece (such as as above) or putting up something on the bare side of a building and just doing vandalism for the sake of vandalism (etching or tagging on store windows, the bus, homes etc)
he is simply backing up the idea that there can be, and is, valid street art to some people. this does not mean you support outright destruction of property.
Van ([14])
Evolution gave you a brain so that you could make these sort of discriminations between things. Try using it to discriminate between something that actually is art, versus spray painted block letters on the side of a building. Being amazed that the artists can spell the word Amaze doesn't exactly mean it's art.
Number 18:
Evolution gave me a brain? How does that work? And I never said I was amazed by Amaze; I simply said you and your ilk are annoying, stuck up wankers. Can your thoughts evolve enough to comprehend that?
Thanks, Joe. Mariconsoy can can as hard as he wants thinking about yuppie pie holes, but it doesn't change the fact that he and others can't seem to get one thing through their heads: This wasn't graffiti, it was what the owner of the building wanted. Maybe they hate freedom.
OK it was commissioned graffiti, still as ugly and worthless as dog donuts.