G.R.A.M.S. Is Geometry Blog

I salute this guy for his contribution to graffiti.

As a kid, Darryl McCray started writing “Cornbread loves Cynthia” all over his Philadelphia school to get the attention of a girl he liked. He then expanded all over the city with his tag, simply, “Cornbread,” with a crown over the B. He is now acknowledged as the creator of modern graffiti, which served as the backdrop to the rise of Hip Hop.

His painting took the art world by storm in the 1980s and then Julian Schnabel reinvented himself as a film director to more kudos. Morley Safer profiles this titan of art and film.

Art & Sophistication are pivotal to each other, both give each other new energy. Some or all of art have to have some type of sophistication or it just gets boring or unattractive.Arguably some see abstract art as very sophisticated, but some see it as a calamity of decision by the artist. But in reality the sophistication in abstract art come from the mood of the composition. The premise of this is that art is sophisticated and sophistication is a art in itself.

T Magazine speaks with the artist, Takashi Murakami.

Rauschenberg discusses one of his most controversial works.