Dissertation

Kobra

1) intriduce the street artist:

        -His studies: he did join a break dance group very famous in Sao Paulo , where he discover the hip-hop univers, after that he does some banking studies and he found a little job. He do research on art in parallel.

        -His type of work: his artistic work is a mixture of tags, realism and paintings, he work on 3D painting and graphism for a great realist job. He use the tag tendance, american graffitis of mexicans muralists and geometric graphics. As a result , they first work is accurate and ultra-realistic reproductions of old photgraphs in black and white,where he add sparkling colors on walls of more than 1000 square meters.

        -Messages: in they work, he  represents historical figures to revive the memories of the city where he create they works, for example he use the wall of times square in new york to celebrate a historical event, and here it’s the victory of united states over japan and it became the symbol of victory and love with the photograph of an American marine kissing his companion. Other portraits of historical figures like nelson Mandela or David Bowie were made, to symbolise peace in the world. He denounce also inequalities in Brazil and the word.

        -Critics: Some one thinks “graphic portrait-decomposition” process is tired. Too much of everything, too much sophistication, too much “flashy” colour. Abundance of “effects” affects the message. Colours and shapes are very simple to be original. But he dosen’t had a lot of critics.

He had a real difficult fresh start after he stop working.

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