Hypnotic Eye - Riveted
Digital
Graffiti: Defining the Undefinable?
George Glasser
Academics attempt to define art into categories and then into subcategories, etc. However, the appreciation of art is a totally subjective experience - either you like it or you don't.
As for myself, Peter Max is my favorite artist. I saw an exhibition of his work in the late 1960s at the San Francisco Museum of Art. It wasn't the paintings that caught my imagination, but bits and pieces of his experiments with color and design - the unpolished, spontaneous work. It was evident that he was enjoying himself.
Starting out, I am sure that he had only a basic concept and was experimenting. However, the rough 'bits and pieces', for me, turned-out to be an inspiration that has remained fixed in my mind for over forty years.
The main thing that has always strikes a chord with me about Graffiti is, not so much the quality of art, but the surfaces on which they are painted - the textures such as bricks, wood grain and shabby walls. For me, that what makes them most exciting and interesting.
This section of G-Tigerclaw.com is experiments with graffiti styles and textures - I intend to be adding to the Graffiti Gallery as I come-up with interesting new ideas.
The following pieces are my experiments in creating a web-based digital graffiti style.
Also see: Art Deco Girls
Digital Graffiti
Looking out on the world
Anna's Dream
Flying Holiday
Midnight Drive
Our Lady of
the City Streets
Alethea's Holiday
Postcard
Factory in
Paradise
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Our Lady of
the City Streets - Rivet Background
Flower Graffiti
Alethea's Holiday
Postcard - II
Alethea's Holiday
Postcard - III
A Little After
Midnight - Midnight Angle
De Capo - Love
Somewhere in my mind
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George C. Glasser
Create Your Badge
"The Other Side To This Life" is available as a free eBook download - click on image below.
Glasser presents a harsh and uncompromising view of the Vietnam era military and San Francisco street life during the mid 1960s. At the onset of the first chapter, the reader becomes ‘the traveler’ on a series of surreal adventures spanning the socially volatile years between 1965 – 1969. Along the way, we encounter strange and nefarious characters, drugs, and the social turmoil at epicenter of the counterculture movement. The central character’s wry, philosophical observations about his adventures/misadventures simply, but eloquently underscore the bizarre ambience of the time.
