If these's a duller street artist ( in the looooooosest sense of the word) I don't know who it is. He does parodies of parodies of parodies, work that out if you can. In conclusion, the result of too much opportunity to make money, from too little skill or inspiration, please go away.
so, let me see if I understand this
ReplyDeletethe boy is saying "I need your love more than New York needs it, because I'm tired and need to sit down"??????
surely, if I say "I Love New York" I am including the people that live there, not just the architecture, or the food, or the nightlife, or any of those other things that rely on the existence of people, no?
and couldn't the kid being doing something more inspiring with the "love", rather than look like he's sitiing on it to watch tv?
this isn't a terrible sentiment to put out in the world, that a child needs love, it's just not a very good way to say it. a few minutes thought goes a long way in this world. the art in our streets would be a lot better if people thought a little bit more about how to present their message when they have one.
I hope I get that teaching job at street art college, I love critiquing work!!! At least this piece has room for improvement. LET could make this a whole lot better with a little more thought. I'm giving it a C, and hoping to he'll make it again with improvements.
oh, and just an observation here, not a dis, but working under the name LET makes it very easy for people to write TOI in front of your name...
Anyone still trying to emulate this tired out has-been formula gonna need as much love as they can get.
ReplyDeleteIs it meant to be saying that he needs the heart as a spacehopper?? Extreme cringe factor comes as standard on this one.
ReplyDeleteIndeed one of the many pointless crumb chasing clones snuffling far back along the trail left in the wake of the Banksy bucks.
ReplyDeleteOther pointless stencil shunters:
Cartrain
Tek13
T.wat
Grafter
The Art Tart
Levi C
Fark
Hutch
Eyesaw
Hush
Copyright
Fake
Mimi The Clown
Tin Kicker
Ame72
And on ad infinitum. A good guide though if you're a pointless street artist is that you've painted at Upfest as that's the seal of approval for banality.
its easy to knock but its only fair to give some credit where its due.
ReplyDeleteTheArtTart is taking the piss out of street/stencil artists - in case you didnt notice!
She is great.
The Art Tart is dope. Though Eelus is shit. Luckily he is giving up stencils, though if he gave his eyes to sightsavers, they would refuse them!
ReplyDeleteI'm aware the art tart is meant to be a parody but it results in more shit art (based on shit art) being produced and sold around all the shitty street art events and shows making her act completely pointless.
ReplyDeleteThe Art Tart is a parody eh? I seem to remember reading her press release which said something about her 'bursting onto the scene at the Cans festival' (like another 1000 or so similair pieces of dross I read selling similair opportunist drivel)
ReplyDelete...didn't sound like much of a 'parody' to me then when she was trying to sell her 5th rate attempt at personality cult stancils on Brick Lane....its all too easy for these bandwagon jumpers to front on street art then shout 'parody' when it all comes on top for their saviour and in turn their whole shitty movement....epic fail for the Art Tart and all of the above especially that Eyesaw who has taken his miserable brand of dross to the next level and started painting a wierd 'street art' 'pieces' with Dank and others alongside existing work by actual graffiti writers, please stay away.
haha I'm with the bloke above on all points.
ReplyDeleteShe's just a bad panto injoke whoring herself for a few measly pennies. She'd be better off dressing up like a hipster and painting herself silver and plonk herself on Brick Lane.
And those mismatched faux graf pieces eyesaw does are so lame letter wise I see why he resorts to using stencils even to the point he uses them to do his "dubs".
OK! I was wrong, Art Tart is shit too, but dope floppy tits!
ReplyDeleteJeez I wish she'd put them away as they're like airbags that have been deployed to try and absorb the damage of the obvious car wreck that this failed caricature is.
ReplyDeletethe Art Tart is a beautiful person . id rather a piece of art tart art than another dose of the venomous bile from anonymous know nothing numpties.
ReplyDeleteshe is a parody , the art tart is a character, it is pantomime, fucking lighten up and enjoy yourselves. hell street art in general aint meant to be taken seriously . the only people who think it should be are those who capitalise and profit off the back of it . fuck that and fuck this.
i love this blog lets not let it become solely the haunt of personal attacks and spiteful comments.
"the only people who think it should be are those who capitalise and profit off the back of it".
ReplyDeleteLike she attempts to do but fails miserably at it?
I wouldn't have a problem with her if she wasn't trying to extract some cash out of her stunts like all the other chancers in this scene.
too late - didn't you see their nastyness about Rough? tsk tsk
ReplyDeleteI'm all for debate rather than insults
where can I see some Art Tart and some Eyesaw online?
I want to judge for myself
judge? that's an idea.. (cue wavey fade into dream sequence...)
forget being a teacher at street art college, I want to be the street art Simon Cowell. the stage set would look like Brick Lane, and the contestants would come on, pitch their idea, then make their piece, in front of a live studio audience. damn, the advertisers will bite each others cocks off to have an ad slot in the middle of "Stars In Their Own Eyes"!!! I'll be rich damn you all RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then I can buy up every shitty screen print I see on this site and burn it!!!!! WOOOHAHAHAHA!!! WOOOOOOO-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAARRRR!!!!!
okay I've just been on The Art Tarts website, and believe 100 percent that her persona as the Art Tart is a parody, but her street art/stencils are depicting that parody they are not a parody of street art, but an attempt to capitalise from it, either in cash or promotion.
ReplyDeleteI've looked at what I would imagine are her pre street art drawings and paintings and she shows definite skill originality and humour, though they're not to my taste I can see many people liking them, especially taking into account her whole 'Vaudeville' persona.
I can also imagine her being a very nice, fun person, and am aware of the work of the Natural Theatre Company which I hold in esteem.
The problem is this, the moment she decided to become a 'street artist' she went outside her sphere of cultural awareness and into an ill informed gold rush, its' 'bubble'kept afloat by the history of decades of real urban graffiti and protest culture, and a misplaced idea by collectors that we were at the beginning of some sort of democratic golden age of stencils, which obviously is about as far from the truth as you can get.
It was taken on by a new generation of stencillists and graffitists who saw the streets of the world rather as a forum for protest or competition and style as their route to riches and self promotion.
Now that the bubble is bursting it is becoming increasingly obvious that it's a massive smoke and mirrors hoax, most of the 'artists' talentless chancers, trustafarian tourists and frustrated graphic designers, any imagery or message, merely a prop to aid posturing, most often stolen from a real subculture and quite often paid for in blood by the originators...
The Art Tart has, despite her obviously full life and talent outside this sphere, tainted herself with all the shit people now associate with it.
Before today when I googled her name and saw her site I thought she was solely a creation of the Street art universe....now I see that she is not I would advise her, if I were her manager or friend to drop the whole stencil/street art thing and go back to doing what she was clearly doing well enough before, actually using pencils brushes as a real artist and put the whole sorry episode behind her....she clearly has immeasurably more talent and personality than most of those who had an epiphany at the Cans festival, its just that getting on the bandwagon has made people aim eggs and rotten tomatoes at her too....
its not fair to tarr the whole scene with the brush so rightly justified for use against the fame hungry , cash hungry, two bit band wagon jumpers . yes , they shout about themselves, yes , they jump up in our faces at every opportunity, yes , they sell overpriced shit to the uneducated collector/investors.
ReplyDeleteBUT ... i say fuck them , look for the ones who have to be dragged into the limelight, look for the ones who say nothing and who work only for themselves and for the enjoyment of others.
fuck all the 'beautiful crime' c-list celebrity fame hungry whores and fuck all the Laz highbrow high priced art hedge fund fillers.
I'm one of the most venomous people on here, but I must admit I don't really have a problem with the Art Tart, as I saw her in person once and she at least made me laugh with her over the top slutty antics, which is more enjoyment than I can say I've ever got from the work of all the other people on that list put together. She's an actress, playing an Ali-G type pisstake...and so selling crappy stencil canvases to mugs is all part of the joke in my opinion.
ReplyDelete"selling crappy stencil canvases to mugs is all part of the joke in my opinion".
ReplyDeleteWell she was Nick Walker's assistant.
After looking at her website, I can see The Art Tart is quite clearly a performance piece, and not someone who considers herself a "street artist". that is obvious from the fact she only has one outfit!
ReplyDeleteshe is simply using the stencil art form to stay current, thus making her performance work topical.
the actual stencil pieces look very similar to Nick Walker, and I like how she presents a photo of herself next to the photoshopped image, then the stencil of same image, thus revealing the truth behind the curtain, that it is really not hard to make a stencil, and showing that people are mugs for paying thousands of pounds for stencil artworks.
she quite simply does the job that this site attempts to do, and should garner our support. she's making a lot of highly respected artists look like idiots, and doing it with her tongue planted firmly in her cheek (and a bunch of flowers planted up her arse by the looks of things too!)
I'd love to slip the art tart my length up her rusty bum hole from behind whilst punching her in the kidneys.
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