What Factors in the Present Situation of Hong Kong Explain the Sudden Surge of Interest in Tsang’s Works?

“In contrast to government-commissioned public art, street art is illicit and subversive in nature. Therefore, most street artists, including Banksy, use pseudonyms to avoid legal prosecution for vandalism.”(Chung 27) Banksy’s street art does not focus on competing with rival artists, but focuses on engaging with a broader audience in a deeper level. He provokes his audience by deeply expressing out various social practices that helps viewers to reflect and confront certain aspects together as a community. (27) The underlying message of Banksy’s art can lead towards an active involvement of street art within the community.

The importance of Public Art in communities stems from a place of creativity, voice and rebellion. All art is a form of communication whether it is street art or museum art. Artists make art to express and address their political views, mark the anniversary of something, tell a story, etc. Public art creates a sense of community in cities and towns because it reflects what the places believe in. Whether it is street art or museum art, most all humans admire what artists express because it is easily accessible and almost always demonstrates a story. Street artists such as “Blek Le Rat” and “Banksy” have used their talent to create urban art that reflects societal, political, and economic views along with a pinch of dark humour. These reflections

We seem to come into contact with a form art every day. It is all around us and sometimes we don’t even notice. One of those art forms is street art, better known by the name graffiti. Graffiti can be recognized for having a bad connotation associated with it, for example some people view it as offensive, vulgar, a nuisance or a form of vandalism. For some people graffiti is a way of life, a culture per se. There are many ways that culture can be defined for example culture can contain the use of symbols, it can be learned and shared, it has values and purpose. Graffiti as a culture contains all of these things and in this paper I will be looking at some comparisons and contrasts of graffiti culture in America from when it started and its evolution to mainstream artistic culture.

Within the field of the visual arts, I investigated how the techniques and implications of the artworks of Ai Weiwei and Banksy are comparable. In order to answer this question, I observed and analyzed artworks from both artists, noting the pieces’ effects on the viewer (me), similar visual qualities, and common themes. This process included visiting museums, looking at artwork online, and reading about the contexts of the pieces. I found that Banksy and Ai Weiwei both employ the technique of symbolism in their artworks in order to raise awareness regarding contemporary

As a research topic, Graffiti has increasingly become a subject of analysis since the 1970s, as the outpouring of street art in New York City in that decade drew academic attention to the links between street art and marginalized groups. However, this research tended to define graffiti narrowly as being the use of spray paint or aerosol cans, and to associate it exclusively with small subsections

Banksy is a famous- yet anonymous- is an example of a street artist who uses stencils to portray his urban art across the streets of London. His style of work is usually dominated with black and white and sometimes complimented with a splash of colour. This allows the viewer to understand the concept of his work much better as they realise the main focus of the piece. His art works usually involve a political message and is sometimes reinforced humorously. For instance, the image on the left raises awareness of the increasing interest and obsession and technology in younger generations. It suggests a scary future- if not already a reality- that the source of happiness will come from the ‘no. of likes’ we receive on our social media pages.

Art became an integral and most crucial thing in lives of most people. It helps people to represent their feelings through their art works, whereas other people are using art in order to get profit. People are learning arts in schools and universities and using it in their lives for different proposes. However, art seems to be good for all people, there is only one type of it which is usually not welcomed in countries - ‘Street art’. According to Johan Slogan, ‘Nowadays art’ (2010, 13-14), street art known to us as a “graffiti” is a way of representing feelings by people from lower class who were discriminated or have their own opinions for situation in the world. Street art has been declared as vandalism prohibited in most developed

Everything that exists in this world has its own identity whether some say it is rational or irrational, normal or abnormal. Identities are often encountered by questioning the origin of where it is from by those have greater political power. They have become the examiner who is capable to re-construct the object into a place from out of place (Ahmed. 2000, p.8) . How is this artistically affecting ‘other’ artists and their work in the past and current art world? Where does the social subjectivity (Jones, 2012, p.33) available to these ‘other’ artists? It is not excessively shocking that most of the artistic movements and sensations were raised by white male artists. This can assert that male artists are considered to be in greater political

The widespread dissemination of colorful graffiti paintings on the walls of our major cities has made it impossible to ignore this form of "public art." As contact with this form of expression increases, one starts to recognize styles, recurrent themes, patterns and stylistic influences. To the masses graffiti seems to represent "vandalism," an ugly and threatening attempt to undermined social value and prestige. For graffiti writers, graffiti is a secret expression, an urban form of mystic calligraphy, a voice against the" man."

Within the impoverished urban streets arose a youth culture captivated by infamy and self-pride. A youth culture virtually undistinguishable from members of modern society with a passion, setting them apart from the community. The members of this underground subculture could be your next-door neighbor, your son or daughter, or the contractor repairing your roof, yet you would have no idea that they strive to “bomb” objects and surfaces found in everyday life. It is the subtle differences that distinguish a graffiti artist from the average member of society, such as their, mindset, desires, speech and active lifestyle.

The English street artist Banksy has produced various works of art in a revolutionary style. Street art is a very unique form of art that is produced in public areas on buildings, bridges, concrete, poles, and many other locations. This form of art is usually done illegally, which adds to the immense controversy that already surrounds it. With that being said, it speaks volumes about artists such as Banksy, who risk criminal charges of vandalism in order to empower others through his art. One of his popular pieces, “Looters”, historically commemorated the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, boldly criticizing government, media, racism and other significant issues. Many citizens were left with questions and the image poetically raised awareness to aspects of post-Katrina recovery that are still being discussed till this day. For the short time it existed as an untampered image on Elysian Fields Avenue, it managed to create a lasting impression that will exist decades after its removal.

Relational Aesthetics, with particular reference to A Better Tomorrow—A Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Relating to Hong Kong

Art comes in different types of styles and forms. However, its evaluation has become problematic since the turn of the twentieth century with a new controversial art form of graffiti becoming popular by many artists. On two sides of the spectrum, works of art that are produced by graffiti artists demonstrate a broad spectrum of personal and cultural expressions through past experiences of economics and social policies set by the state. Throughout this paper, I will look at three areas of whether increases graffiti is related to the city policies. First is the social relation of inequality and power within the urban cities as a whole. Second is the current policies implemented in St. Catharines, Ontario and whether they are decreases the amount of graffiti seen on the street or not. Finally, is the approach I would like personal take within the city of St. Catharines and the policies that I would implement to decrease case of graffiti on private business property.

To this extent, the law was silent on when and how this would be realized, and has been the epicenter for Hong Kong’s cry for independence, and the various protests from civil rights groups and students’ bodies. Various instruments have been used to spearhead an end to these serious controversies, which continue to ripple the society apart in this day and era of great civilization and human rights activism. In this book, we will give a brief highlight of numerous items that are central in the roadmap to Hong Kong independence, noting how far the region has come, and what is the legal standing of China, the influence of Beijing, and other world leaders.

The uniqueness of Hong Kong in terms of geographical, social and political structure is fascinating to study. Ceded to the greatest imperial power of the 19th century, Britain, the transition of a mostly uninhabited barren island to a financial powerhouse with over 7 million inhabitants provides interesting insight into a city built on entrepot trade, laissez-fair capitalism and modern economic social programs that keep society functioning at a high level. This was not always the case, for much of its colonial history; Hong Kong was a haven for smuggling, economic piracy and exploitation for the impoverished Chinese immigrants who settled there.