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Colors of The World: Street Art

This show is going to be about amy artist who make the world their one canvas and make incredible works of street art incorporating their surroundings. 

The art exhibition will be located in the atrium in the E building. I chose this place because it is a place that every student here at LaGuardia Community College has access to, it is a place where people are usually rushing to and from places and I think it would be a nice site for everyone to see art all around us.

The theme of this show is street art. Street art can include many things like graffiti, sticker art, video projection and even flash mobbing. The way that I came up with the idea for this art show was that I wanted to show art that incorporated the great architecture of buildings and pair it with a piece of art work. This show is important because it shows people that art work like graffiti that are usually looked as something that is bad and harms the neighborhood are not actually bad but that they enhance the community and does not destroy it.

The first piece in this exhibit was made by an artist named David Walker a man who paints murals all over London. This mural is of a young girl and it is a two dimensional form of art which was made with spray paint. The painting uses primary colors and is an abstract style of art. Second is the painting of the young boy wearing an " I Love Life" shirt, this was made by STMTS a young street artist in Greece. This artist creates large scale drawings on paper and then attaches  them to public walls. This drawing is monochromatic and symmetrical. The third image was made by Colombian street artist Stinkfish and he drew an image of a boy on a wall in  Nepal. I believe that this art work is abstract because it represents the boy using color and shape to alter the real. Next is the work of art that has Popeyes on it, this art was made by artist John Matos and it is located on Houston Street here in New York City, I think that this art shows warm and cool colors as well. Last but not least we have the work of Gabriel Abreu and its a piece of art located in the Dominican Republic, this art work incorporates the trees which represent the guys hair. This art piece shows patterns and it is symmetrical as well. The way that all of these drawings connect to one another is that they are all fairly similar to one another for example they are all located on walls in their communities, they are all of a person whether they are of a fictional character of not. As a curator of this show I picked these pieces because I wanted to show that these works of art are all over the world showing that art is truly universal and can be found everywhere.