The Street Art Revolution
With a style similar to cave painting, talented street artists embrace the thoughts of a new generation by painting the walls of our Denver metropolis. With phrases like “I was here”, “These are the words that were on my mind”, and “This is what I cared about”, the works express what fills the minds of artists who unveil their sketches onto the drab walls of urban settings in order to transform those featureless landscapes into colorful expressions.
Most are written so that one can read them without much attention or practice, but because the trend in street art is to twist the alphabet into its own language, many pieces are illegible.
All of the images seen here were taken in the vicinity of Santa Fe Drive. This area was once dominated by two brothers who started one of the original Denver graffiti “gangs”, called DTC (Denver Tag Crew), and who literally liked to paint this town red. Unfortunately, little to none of their work has survived, which goes to show that most graffiti pieces will not last for more than a few years.
The art likely to survive has been commissioned as part of the decor of the particular building. I say, let us preserve this art, since the trends have evolved over the decades into something beautiful.
Let school mascot murals be done by some kid and an ass-load of spray paint until they bleed the school's colors in aesthetic triumph. My heart goes out to the street artists who did pieces like these - the ones who cried out what’s on their mind in beautiful psychedelics, the ones who stayed away from serious gang crime just to paint a wall, or the ones who got out. We hear you.
Check out some local beauty on this cool website link.
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IanAugust 1, 2010
all photos featured in this blog are taken by me, Ian C.M. in public areas.