Does this explain why Street Artists do what they do? Does this explain why we almost all understand when we see "real" Art? And does this explain why Artists sometimes work for "free" monetarily (i.e. the "Starving Artist" stereotype), when the "real" remuneration for a "real" Artist is in this connection with their Audience?
Here are a few examples of anonymous Street Art that touched me: (please see http://www.streetartutopia.com/ for hundreds of examples from across the world).
(1) A little girl, being pulled by her busy mother who is ignoring the sad, begging man with a sign reading: "J'AI FAIM" (I'm hungry), kindly offers to him her precious sucker to assuage his pain.
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| Street Art in Bordeaux, France |
From: http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=8445
Photo by: http://bit.ly/pUgmGu
(2) An enormous but tender picture of a submerged girl in a rainstorm reading one of many pages of a love letter, and thereby transforming a tremendous eyesore and dull, urban blight into a bright and colorful canvas expressing an eternal message of love and hope.
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| Street Art by ARYZ - Galeria Urban Forms in Lodz, Poland |
From: http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=8564
http://www.galeriaurbanforms.org is a listing on an interactive map of Lodz, Poland showing where to find as many as 20 large, street-art canvases like this one.
I believe Street Art - like any "real" Art - can transform ugly, shameful urban pain into priceless beauty and meaningful value. Thank you to all those anonymous "real" Artists whose work adds beauty and meaning to all of our lives. May you always follow your internal DreamMaker in the service of health and wholeness, while become a aid and messenger to the DreamMaker for all mankind.
____ (Traduction anglais-français ci-dessous par Google Translate)
