I spotted this on C/ de Sant Pere Més Baix today. I’ve never seen street art involving a stencil on foil before. The image is a Roy Lichtenstein reference. I’ve been trying to Google the artist’s tag to see if anyone is known for that style of work, but no luck yet.
Lately I’ve been thinking that someone should create an online directory of street artists. In the past it may have been that only people in the know could appreciate a piece of street art. But I think with the global celebrity status of some of these artists, it’s gotten mainstream (gasp!) enough to warrant some sort of categorization, or archival system. But perhaps that would run contrary to everything that street art stands for, and its ephemeral, unpreservable nature. It also brings up the whole debate about making street art for art or message sake versus creating it for artist cred and fame (see: Exit Through the Gift Shop). If street art is now being displayed in galleries and being auctioned off for thousands of dollars, should it not also be archived, if only online? Sometime in the distant future, can we imagine a museum of street art (MOSA)?
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