Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Graffiti Art on the Sidelines of Urban Text: New Wall - Urban 上海 / Shanghai

It is not just the proportions of the picture space that might have graced by its mixture of colours and lines museum walls that draw attention, but also the shades of green, brown and black that lend to this involuntary urban frame for, save for its emplacement in Shanghai, anonymous graffiti art that create an effect of a splash of lights washing across the image surface, as if soaring buildings were pulling out of the space around them the roots of everyday imagination cropping up on the vertical sidelines of otherwise mundane walkways.

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