OS Gemeos painting sells for $143,500

[Oliver Clothesoff]

srsly

[NightmareOnElmStreet]

good for them. no hate over here. well. maybe a little. but it's only jealousassnagger hate.

first seen they're stuffs in coney island. ah-mazing.

[Swindle]

im happy for them they deserve it

[injury]

[crack rock steady]

Link to blog anyone?

[CLICKCLACKONER]

Dope, they totally deserve it. Maybe they can move out the favela (jokes).

 

Art fag dudes: how much for an obey piece?

[SystemFailure]

I don't think he is a faggot for his work. I just think he has always been a faggot because of his name.

 

Sheppard Fairey? We beat people up just because their names deserved it.

[Poesia [ ] T]

Retna Making moves also Graffiti has Grown up

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/graffiti-artist-trades-street-vandalism-for-bombardier-jet-gig.html

 

Los Angeles-based graffiti artist Retna used to get arrested for spray-painting buses, trains and other commercial property.

 

Now, he gets paid to do this.

 

VistaJet, Swiss operator of 31 private aircraft, commissioned Retna to paint the tail of its largest corporate jet, the Bombardier Global Express XRS, this spring.

 

“It’s a $60 million canvas, so we decided to start with just this one,” said Nina Flohr, head of branding and communications at VistaJet.

 

Together with Bombardier Business Aircraft, VistaJet is also sponsoring a traveling exhibition of Retna’s paintings, “The Hallelujah World Tour,” with a $4 million budget.

 

First stop: A 13,000-square-foot warehouse in New York displaying 35 large canvases and one sprawling sculpture of the artist’s name.

 

Hung cheek-by-jowl around the perimeter, the works bristle with mysterious symbols, resembling a cross between Asian calligraphy and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Retna’s imaginary alphabet has roots in Old English, gang graffiti, Arabic and Hebrew.

Furious Mother

 

“Even though I don’t understand them, I’m really intrigued by them,” said Retna, 31, who speaks English and Spanish. “I just really love writing.”

 

Retna, who grew up in downtown Los Angeles, got into graffiti as a 9-year-old Catholic-school student.

 

“I’d see graffiti on a freeway going to school,” he said. “I couldn’t think of anything else. I just wanted to draw, draw and draw.”

 

Over the years, he tagged freeways, public parks and bridges. Along the way, he got arrested for vandalism, he said.

 

His mother, who moved to the U.S. from El Salvador and had to work two jobs (including a night shift as a parking-lot attendant) to put Retna through a private school, was furious.

 

“She was worried that something would happen to me,” said Retna. “I put her through a lot of pain.”

 

He said his pieces include Spanish curses his mother hurled at him as well as names of dead friends.

 

Retna completed the largest piece -- an 8-by-20-foot canvas filled with five rows of squat black and red runes -- in a single day this week.

 

“That speed comes from working on the street,” he said, as he walked around the freezing warehouse while a production crew was busy arranging his paintings and adjusting the lights. “I am talking about hanging on a bridge. We’d have to finish in 45 minutes before the cops got there.”

Middle East

 

Decoding these enigmatic messages could take a lot more time. You’d need a guide to explain how a sparse composition of silver symbols -- vertical lines, zigzags and curved shapes -- translates into “stoned to death.” And that’s the simplest piece in the show.

 

The exhibition’s producers, Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, are still working on the tour’s next destinations.

 

“We want to show it in the Middle East,” said Valmorbida. Egypt would have been a good idea a month ago. Not so much now.”

 

Prices for the paintings range from $25,000 to $180,000. The show runs through Feb. 21 at 560 Washington St. All paintings Sold out

[DSD666]

a homie has a 12 oz magazine with the twins featured. I usually only do throws and hollows because I havent progressed much past that, but these dudes, since I seen that mag in early 2000 or so have been huge inspiration, and deserve it.

edit, I seen that mag in early 2000, but I am not sure what year it actually came out, if I can flick it I will post it.

[viperface]

Getting your art sold is great. $143,500 isn't even that much when you consider how these dudes bust their balls on lifts and ladders, spend 431243liters of paint on giant walls, travel around the world non-stop... there are expenses that a single sold painting will cover for just a while.

 

I really dislike their yellow characters though, and I'm kinda bummed about that because dudes seem to be decent people. And not only that but their work's scale, volume, color schemes in general are really on point. Especially the one with weirdly tinted flags.

 

Then again I think Twister's characters are lame as well when compared to the handstyles/screw icon etc. Kinsey too. Something about repeated street art characters irks me. Like you once drew a good picture and just stuck with it. There's nothing there after you see it once.