How
does art affect what I do every day and how does it affect that way I view my
surroundings, my environment and my relationship with my family. Art has a profound effect on the way I act,
the way I feel and the way interact.
I
enjoy all types of Art, main stream, iconic, underground, and local…… There
is the monthly event here in the east
bay, in Oakland, called the Art Murmur or as some will call it First
Firday. You can look up Oakland Art Murmur on the web. There
are many art galleries all located in
this sort or Hub in downtown Oakland and once a month they keep their doors
open late and purvey their latest opening. There is food , music,
dancing in the streets, bands in the streets ( many bands) some playing on top
of busses, inside of busses, on street corners and local artist selling their
wares. The city closes about 4 blocks of Telegraph Ave. in Oakland and
there is performance art, demonstrations, food trucks, so the foodies are out
in droves and last month there was a slam dunk demonstration. And also
the local dive burger drive in has a car show ripe with Boss cars and rusty Rat
rods, girls dressed in their best betty 50’s outfit and of course the suicide
lincoln’s with 18 in. spinners. We get all the flava……. Not to veer
off to much from the question but I consider all of this art, be it local or
known…. I frequently buy silk screened posters from the artist on the street
because I like the art and it’s actually really good.
Peter Max
(do you see a trend)
Is it the mind of a genius or is it
just a passionate prolific artist that is unrelenting in their struggle to be
heard…
Then we have Daid Choe, a street
artist who is now a Millionaire because he painted the walls of
facebook. I don’t consider him famous for the facebook thing but because
his Graffiti art is dope…..
As you can see I have a lot of
favorites and influences……. I gotta say that keith harring has always been my
favorite 21st century artist and it is too bad he had to go at such
and early time in his life. It’s mind boggling to try image as to what he
would be creating if he were still alive with art, and mass media on a global
scale. I know there are still artist out there today doing just
this but this does not discount the impact keith would have had today…….
