Posts tagged protest art
The amazing Ewan, creating a protest art masterpiece: a post-modern take on Eugene Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’ with all the figures wearing Guy Fawkes (V for Vendetta/Anonymous masks) Nov 5th 2011-photo by Jamie Boyd <3
The best collection of Occupy posters from around the world.
NOTE: Check out the paint roller one of the protesters is holding up in this poster from Jakarta. Is it just a coincidence that it looks similar to a sickle - the symbol of Communist/Socialist revolution? Am I reading too much into it?
There has been an explosion of freedom of expression in the Libyan city of Benghazi. Any form of dissent was banned, until the pro-democracy rebels assumed control.
“As if Chinese authorities weren’t angered enough by the rash of pro-Ai Weiwei stencils popping up all over Hong Kong, someone is now projecting the same message on unauthorized locations around the city, including the barracks of the People’s Liberation Army. A person using the moniker “Cpak Ming” is then taking photos of the “flash graffiti” and posting them on Facebook, which isn’t necessarily illegal, but has thoroughly pissed off military officials regardless.”
We Are Human by Francisco Garcia
On the morning of April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law. Later that day, an artist named Nomas threw 10 posters and a few spray cans into his bag, grabbed a bucket of paste, and jumped on his bike.
A few hours later,…
(via thinkmexican)
“Environmental graffiti can be an efficient and eco-friendly way to spread a message. Think of all of the paper saved! Around the world, from Mexico City to Australia, New York to Scotland, artists have taken to the streets to advocate for the environment.”
“Just recently I heard the new studio I built in Shanghai will be demolished, all because of my activities,” Ai said at the time. “So what is my activity? My activity is very simple, asking basic rights for people to freely express themselves and also to find a new structure, a new way of communicating. Because I’m an artist and this is what I do and I believe in that.”
“Protest art from North Africa and the Middle East, a region where images like these were unthinkable just a few months ago.”
