wetbutter101
21 posts
Dec 12, 2007
11:16 AM
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does anybody know any legit websites that encompass the history of spray paint art? Im writing a paper about it but seem short for resources haha
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SpaceKid
566 posts
Dec 12, 2007
5:59 PM
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This is the only good info I found... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray_paint_art
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BuddingArtiste
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1672 posts
Dec 15, 2007
4:51 AM
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I wrote a paper on Spray Paint Art a couple of years ago, and managed to dig up quite a bit of information on the history and origins of spray paint art.
Ill see if i can dig it up and send it to you.Nick
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goldpaint5
994 posts
Dec 15, 2007
9:07 AM
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idono...ive never been able to find anything
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just because your NOT paranoid does NOT meen there NOT after you x.x
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wetbutter101
23 posts
Dec 17, 2007
12:51 PM
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Thanks everyone for your help i really appreciate it!
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veggihead
180 posts
Dec 18, 2007
4:58 PM
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who says we cant make our own up. we should have people post what they know about it and idk put it all together for future spraypainters to read about on this website. just a suggestion.
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Cosmic Creations
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677 posts
Dec 19, 2007
5:15 AM
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Here is some history from one of the original painters.
Hope this helps.
http://www.cangogh.net/history.html
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Greg, cosmicreations.net
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Derek
9 posts
Dec 25, 2007
5:12 AM
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cosmic you should not believe all you read on the net I know 3 Other spray can artists that started in the first half of 1980. One of them started January 1980.
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Spectramist
1 post
Aug 01, 2008
8:47 PM
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I am making a documentary on the history of Spray Art.
I met Rubem "Sadot" Fernandez in 1982. He let me watch him for 5 hours straight for three days. I watched him get arrested on the second night and helped his female companion load his stuff into the car. The third night I got to go to his apartment on calle Yucatan and he mezmerized me with his poetry and mysticism until daybreak.
I met Hugo Montero around 10 years later in The French Quarter and he filled me in on much of the history and myths. Still trying to nail down just exactly when that was, with the friends I was visiting at the time.
The cangogh.net sight is the most comprehensive on the history of the origins, but by the late '80s there were alot of people working in spray art.
"El Guero" & "El Moreno" were the next to paint after Sadot with the "Cosmic" style. Two brother of "El Guero" took the art form to Miami via NYC.
Also "El Gordo" (Victor Hernandez) appeared at this time and was the one to show Hugo Montero what he did. They met going to the same school sort of.
Luis "El Mexican" took it to the West Coast he is one of the two Luises. The other was known as "El Luigi"
I will be going to Mexico City next week to interview at least three prominent painters as well as Jose Luis Cuevas who was the sponser of AMPA (Asociacion Mexicana de Pintores en Aerosol)the first organized group of Spray Can Artists in Mexico City.
I intend to release various videos in '09 using the footage I collect over the next 6-9 months.
The working title of the longer more complete version is "Aersolgrafia: The Origin of Spray Art" but I have decided I will also make shorts highlighting each artist in half hour biographical segments.
When I get through with the foundational painters, still living, I intend to continue meeting and documenting individuals who are prominent in the Spray Art world.
Any more questions? Be in touch at:
aerosologist@hotmail.comDerek please fill me in if you have the true origin story
Last Edited on 1-Aug-2008 8:52 PM
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RoguePainter
722 posts
Aug 04, 2008
7:27 PM
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This post is great. Im actually planning on writing a book about spray paint art within the next year or so. This stuff will def. help!
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Spectramist
2 posts
Aug 12, 2008
12:37 PM
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Just returned from Mexico City and was able to talk to
El Guero
El Moreno
El Cunado
Ricardo Huet
Jose Luis Cuevas
Turns out many claims by artists are, shall we say, not quite the truth. If someone says they started in a particular year you can as a rule of thumb subtract 2 or 3 years from that figure. Seems like everyone wants to be the first even if they are not the best.
I went to La Zona Rosa, Coyoacan, and La Alameda.
I also found out Sadot was not necessarily suicidal and that perhaps he was murdered by a jealous husband.
The plot thickensAnd to Rogue Painter... Every painter I talked to said that they intended to write the book but had not yet done it. Some have been meaning to for 10 - 20 years. Usually they intended to write this tome so they could place themselves advantageously in the scheme of things, but in the end they may not have written because they really didn't know the whole story or they were worried about being caught in a lie when all was said and done.
Go figure.
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