Talk about Thierry. This guy is actually a total freak in my opinion. He is keen to use the camera to record everything in his life, not missing a single second - including eating and going to the toilet. Whenever his friends see him, they will inevitably meet his camera lens at the same time, or the two are actually one at all - so that the people around him have cultivated enough to selectively ignore the existence of this machine. Boundary. Come to think of it, if his family and friends have the opportunity to be on TV in the future, they will definitely be able to cope with it, as if they were born to live in front of the camera.
However, Thierry's documentary addiction seems to only go so far as to record. Although there are thousands of videotapes stacked in his grocery room, he has never re-read the content he shot, even the videotape. The labels are all messed up, not to mention any filtering and editing of the tapes. It is as if people with OCD will constantly search the Internet for valuable resources to download, but have no time to watch and appreciate the content they download. Thierry's videotapes, while growing in volume, have never really been realised again - unless someone has the patience to examine them one by one and post-process them.
However, it is such a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder who got acquainted with street graffiti by chance, and gradually developed from a recorder and follower to an imitator and creator, and finally turned into an artist engaged in street graffiti. , and even set up an art exhibition following the example of his idol Banksy, and achieved great success, becoming MBW (Mr. Brainwash), a rising art star in Los Angeles.
Of course, there is a lot of luck and coincidence in this successful process. Especially Thierry's DEBUT in Los Angeles, it's doubtful he would have been a hit without the help of Banksy's art team. After all, Thierry is a monk in artistic creation. Although he has artistic inspiration, he lacks basic skills training. His works are easy to be imitated, so that the vitality of his works has to be worrying.
However, if we consider this issue from the nature of art, it seems that there is no need to worry too much. Because isn't art itself the catharsis of the artist's own emotions? To a large extent, basic skills are just auxiliary means, and the enthusiasm of the artist is the soul of the work. If it's more than fanaticism, who can surpass Thierry's paranoia?
For Thierry's success, Shepard Fairey, a colleague and predecessor, is obviously not convinced at heart. Maybe he's a little jealous, maybe he's a little disdainful. But his disapproval made me, a bystander, feel quite pondering - Garaffiti, as a kind of street art, is itself a marginalized area by the art world. Orthodox, and began to point fingers to the juniors who were half-way monks. Is this the so-called law of historical development?
Of course, as a layman of art appreciation, I have no qualifications or level to evaluate Thierry's works. It should be said that among all the street artists in the whole documentary, the only thing that really shocked me seems to be Banksy's work. In my opinion, Banksy's work is not only creative, but also an excellent integration of his ideas into the artistic creation of street graffiti. It can be said that his creation has greatly improved the status of street graffiti. Moreover, Banksy's works are not entirely his own work alone, and many of them are produced and presented collectively by the studio with human and financial resources. It can be said that Banksy's works have broken away from people's traditional positioning of "rough" street graffiti, and have reached a level of sophistication that can be listed in art galleries, even if Banksy is still willing to put them on the street for passers-by to appreciate for free.
However, not all graffiti has to meet Banksy's standards. In other words, the charm of street graffiti is that it is a low-cost and casual creation. It is the kind of work that is full of life when you are walking on the street and you may accidentally look up when you look up. It is an art that exists in everyday life, and conveys the splendor of ordinary life - Life is BEAUTIFUL!
Therefore, I still like Thierry very much. Although he is a little neurotic and obsessive, it is his desperate personality that makes me rediscover the hidden beauty in my life.
In fact, many things in life do not need to ask about the meaning, just enjoy it!
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