Day 17: Invading Paris

This day was street art day.  Honestly, I may have loved some of the street art better than most of the art in museums.  There were just so many types, and so many of them make such a statement.  You may see a poster giving an opinion of a political figure on one wall, an artist's tag right off to the side, and then simply a work of art completely from spray paint around the corner all on the same building.  It almost felt like a scavenger hunt, walking around Paris looking for all the different examples of street art.  It's like all of Paris was the museum, and you were scrambling to try to see everything it had to offer.  Needless to say, I could never see it all, but I think I got a good sense of it all.

After seeing all the different examples of street art in Paris, the class went to a skate park to make our own piece of street art.  At first, I was kinda dreading it, just cause I thought we were each going to have to do our own piece of art, and I am no artist.  It was a very pleasant surprise that we would all be working on one big piece as a group.  The only piece of art we had to do was draw an initial design and pick one to put on the wall.  Even though I thought my drawing looked fantastic, we choose a design I really did like.  Lessons I learned from spray painting: it's much harder than it looked.  The two hardest things for me to do was to spray the paint without it dripping, and spray a sharp, clean line.  Somehow the guy teaching us (who was really good) seemed to make it look easy.  It's kind of amazing how talented some of the street artists.  A lot of people may not consider their work true art because its on the street and not in a museum, but being in the skate park and seeing al the talent around me, I don't see how anyone could not consider it art.