"The Talent Outside the Gallery" is an inconsistent documentary. The first half of it made me feel deeply about the creativity of street art, and even the idea of doing graffiti on my own sprouted. But when I saw the second half, I felt that I was so drifting with the crowd and vulgar, and I would go for something that had no meaning. Paintings.
Before watching the documentary, I had seen the results of graffiti in the streets and lanes of European and American countries, on the walls of communities, and even on the walls and tables of schools. When I was in elementary school, my window was facing the basketball court, so I accidentally witnessed the whole process of graffiti art. Those people took spray paint and painted on the walls of the basketball court, but at the time I felt that it was brightly colored, and the color blocks had a strong contrast with the color blocks, and there was no different aesthetic experience. Later, as I grew older, I became more tolerant of street art. In my opinion, graffiti has become a new art that expresses ideas or conveys ideas. I sigh with the courage of those street artists who are doing everything they want, because this is the quality I lack.
But the second half of this documentary made me break out of this inherent thinking-a successful businessman for success, completed his own marketing in random doodles, and became a celebrity throughout Los Angeles. , A representative figure of graffiti art. This is a kind of irony and blow to Banks, or to people like me who firmly believe that art is for expression. As Banks said, Terry's success may prove that art is a joke.
At this time, my thinking returned to the past. Maybe graffiti art is really just as I thought when I was a kid, it's just color blocks with distinct colors. People in cities live in a fast-developing society and carry out highly repetitive tasks driven by industrial production. The meaningless life makes them need some violent, anti-orthodox catharsis, and street graffiti, as a creation on urban infrastructure construction, itself carries this "riot" gene. As a result, it has become a popular art form, artificially endowed with a certain meaning, and thus help people achieve the purpose of emotional release.
Finally, when I went back to think about it after watching a whole documentary, I found that "The Talent Outside the Gallery" might be the biggest inspiration for a media student like me is Terry's rational use of propaganda resources. Isn’t being good at marketing a skill, or an artistic means of doing things for others to gain fame?
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