The first artist of the week I will be reviewing will be an artist by the name of David Choe. David Choe is a contemporary American street Artist who was born, raised and works out of Los Angeles. Choe is known for his street art and illustrations. His style is unique when compared to other street artists as it mixes the style of street art and fine art. His work is often described as cartoonish and frenetic graffiti style.
The second artist of the week will be reviewing Keith Haring. Keith Haring is another contemporary American Artist from Pennsylvania. Skating has a signature style which is made up of different shapes, with bright and vibrant colors with black outlines for greater contrast. His art takes much inspiration from the pop art movement of the 1950s and 60s. This is another artist who specialized in fine arts however learned how to paint when he started young creating street art.
These two artists’ styles are very similar even though they both have their own genre and style of art. Both artists like to take inspiration from both street and fine arts. where these two artists differ is in the color and detail of their work. Haring’s style is more vibrant and less detailed as it gives more of a cartoonish pop art style, whereas Choe’s art style is more detailed with greater contrast.
The strengths of gallery art is that the artwork can be presented in a clean and nice manner that is very visually appealing to the viewer, however the weakness with gallery art is how they can only be found in galleries and museums which maybe expensive for some.
The strengths of street art is that it is open to the public eye and is very easy to come by, this means more people will be exposed to the world of art, however the weakness of street art lies within the perception of the viewer. some viewers may consider street art to be trashy or not as nice as fine arts.
Personally if i was to become an artist, I would love to create street art. I have many friends who are aspiring artists and many of them do both street and fine arts, however i have a greater connection to street art when compared to the fine arts.
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