Monday, February 27, 2012

JR: Can Art Change the World?

Follow the posted link to watch a compelling lecture by French street artist JR and his campaign to change the world through art.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html

5 comments:

  1. What I feel that makes JR's art unique is that it's simply paper and glue. And it's not the usual graffiti I would think of; it's a photo of a person's face on a wall. JR knows that his art can be vandalized or easily taken down, but what's special is that even after years, some are still up.
    What inspires his art is looking at situations of particular parts of the world. He takes that and creates portraits of regular, daily people. He creates bridges between the people and brings them together, whether they're part of the media, higher or lower class. He shows such unique expressions through the people's faces and it truly inspires me that he basically risks his life doing this. His art is truly unique in it's own way and I respect his output on society and changing the world with art.

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  2. I think his works would reach profund influence. I love his creativity, and I think his works are interesting and valuable. The photographs on the train are very creative, and they do had the audiences' attention. I'm always a positive person and I'm not sure that are can change the wourld. At the same time, I juat not sure there is any single subject or disipline can change the world. But I believe that his work did prove the fact that are can change something in the would, and I think that's a great success. I live his work- simple but valuable!

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  3. First of all, I would like to say that graffiti art is one of my favorite art styles. I love walking through cities and seeing various types of works. Also, the works change rapidly, so you’ll never find it repetitive. The only problem I have about it is the fact that many artist ruin historic building by creating art on them. JR’s Art is special. His technique of posting his work with paper and glue is genius. He has started a new movement. This technique prevents long-term vandalism, while still sending out important messages just like regular graffiti.

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  4. When people torn out the faces, It remains me a news that I saw long time ago: a museum invited lamas to use colored sand to create a huge tangka. They spent a lot time on it. But at the day they finished, after praying, they destroyed the whole things. All arts can not save internally, but all people care is how well can art had influenced people, and people could remember this forever.

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  5. it's hard for me to realize what is going on this world because i can't not feel it so i can't not see what is real,after i saw his art work in the presentation i realize if i see his art work in the street i will definitely will turn around and think about it and when i visualize the problem i see how serious it is
    so i want to say his art work is very success, still how he see the world
    will not simply change the everything but people will eventually influence by his work specially i like his idea to printed people face and particular movement glue at the wall.

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