Pop Graffiti

The ever increasing significance and connection that DJ Culture has to Pop Graffiti is both a sign of similar dynamics of artistic voice as well as an urban rooted element. DJ Culture and its vast repertoire of music – which includes all genres of DJ music going from classic house music to tribal to techno to deep house to trance to hip hop to soul house to trip hop to jungle and on and on they go – is also deeply embedded in the emergence of graffiti culture from the beginning of its development up to present day society.

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From the early days at the Factory in New York City with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring with disco dance parties and Studio 54 all the way up to popular DJs like famous and infamous DJ Carl Cox and DJ Junior Vasquez and DJ Paul Oakenfold and DJ A-Trak and on and on – from both ends of the time spectrum we find that these two cultural styles and artforms both significantly represent a very exceptional time and space where people from urban centres (in the beginning and now spreading everywhere) got together and created from the basic desire of an underground and yet wide appeal when they got together to celebrate all kinds of occassions or just the fact of being alive and the ultimate need to be creative, collaborative and cooperative in a free and accepting/open minded atmosphere and environment.

Pop graffiti – whether now as with artists like my (R)evolution of X Pop Graffiti Artwork – in its termed expressions as graffiti photography, graffiti art prints, graffiti art urban, pop art graffiti, or modern graffiti among many names – is key to understand how it has sprung from the roots of a relatively short time span but a long list of events of countless parties to social and economic revolutions to the wide range of just how society and the world as a whole have changed dynamically over the past 30 years or so (give or take a few).

DJ is God X Graffiti

DJ Culture and Pop Graffiti both have a unique ability to comment on the status and condition of where we are as a global mosaic society and now like never before in our present days we can see how the Digital Revolution has influenced both artforms also and how graffiti artists are able to diversify into sub-genres of the main artform as in the case of pop graffitists and DJ musics’ various sub-genres of house music.

We can envision a continuing growth and explosion as these artforms in both music and visual media are presented further and spread throughout the world – especially now via the internet and other mainstream mass media channels – and how exactly we shall determine the continuing transformation of our voices and ways of expressing the basic need of humans to create and be free to speak or play music or draw and paint – however the medium is exactly the message as in Mashall McLuhan from Canada explained in his revolutionary media theory and prophetic book “The Medium is the Message”.

From here we are thrilled to be living in a time and space where there exists these artforms of DJ Culture and Pop Graffiti among many others that can creatively depict our individual and collective voices painted with color and sound alike onto the frames of our hearts and minds and digital memories.

The Pop Graffiti Underground has come to be in the eyes of the media thanks to internet technologies and other various forms. The beginings of pop graffiti – or otherwise often known as graffiti photography, graffiti art prints, graffiti art urban, pop art graffiti, graffiti pop art and modern graffiti – came from the many major cities throughout the world like New York, Paris, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, Tokyo, Sydney, San Francisco, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Rome, Berlin, and the list goes on and on.

Meditation X Model with Triangle Face

The rapid spread of “Pop Graffiti” as a new voice and modus operandi related most popularly alongside the main concept of graffiti itself have given rise to new and interpretive landscapes of expression which now have morphed into another new and exciting artform often and briefly tagged like my (R)evolution of X Pop Graffiti Artwork.

This Pop Graffiti artform began in the underground with major roots of this expressionary message of defiance or of interpretive means whereby individuals often went out into the night in their regions of city neighborhoods and created works of art that spoke of a different viewpoint on political, socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, sexual, musical, spoken word and/or rhyme and other methods of communication and relationship where there otherwise was no way to describe their individual or collective viewpoint.

These new graffiti art paintings and murals arose out of the dark nights and into the light of day that could initially be seen on buildings or on alley way doorways or even billboards alligning the super highways and local streets of major urban centres. Now since probably 30 or so (give or take a few) years later we are still being blessed with these underground voices which can’t be heard by sounds per se but are definitely heard via the vibrant colors and dramatic use of line and movement that are depicted with “tags” and personal or group lettering of artists from the Underground who can generate works of graffiti within hours or sooner.

They have needed to create these graffiti artworks quickly and efficiently since often these acts of art were done in the night (or awkwardly and paranoidal) during the day so as to evade legal authorities of which they blasted the walls and doorways and billboards quickly as possible with markers, spray paint or other ways to emit their signs and symbols. Now we are becoming more creative as well with the technology at our fingertips with the internet and other inventive computer technologies whereby we can manipulate images using the mousepad or even our very fingers – air spray paint brushing that gives way to revolutionary graffiti art paintings and modern graffit art and urban pop art graffiti works of magic.

XXX Alien in a Bottle of Graffiti Style

We from the underground are inspired by the now exploding ways of how to express our voice in the graffiti tradition and technique and Pop Graffiti styles (like my (R)evolution of X Pop Graffiti Artwork) combine the very essence of the night with the Pop Culture mileu  from the likes of stars within the visions: MTV to Vogue to CNN to your Saturday Night Movie and beyond. This Pop Graffiti Underground is just beginning to uplift its’ visibility in the Underground as well as the now quickening mass media. This will continue to occur as we progress into the night and day of new creative graffiti (and Pop Graffiti too) messaging… a means to a vital existence where our dynamic voices of color and artform either merge peacefully as possible or collide incognito with the world.

Pop Graffiti is probably one of the most interesting new art forms that have been described as graffiti photography, graffiti art urban, graffiti pop art, modern graffiti, or graffiti pop art among many other descriptions and names.

My artwork for (R)evolution of X is largely based upon my personal experience in the realm of an underworld DJ Culture in Toronto and Montreal as well where I was involved as a graffiti artist creating new artwork utilizing various methods/techniques and venues – whether it be on the walls of bathrooms or in back alleys all over downtown. I attended many parties in these two cities along with Vancouver and Calgary where graffiti art paintings were sold by me to various local art collectors as well as others from around the world who were visiting whatever city I happened to be in at the time and were also at these parties and events.

I spent some significant life changing time “on the streets” where I heart felt the underground energies that permeate the tone and color (or sometimes lack thereof) of my pop graffiti artwork that are displayed on my main website www.RevolutionofX.com.

I have dedicated my graffiti artform and career to the theory of how the combination of both pop cultural images from TV, the internet, radio, all kinds of magazines and publications, to music videos and anything and everything in between that depict a reprentation of our collective cultural mileu while merging with contemporary graffiti techniques.

I tend to take a picture and deconstruct it to the point where I can almost see another layer of energy field that surrounds the image so I can then go ahead and draw around and on the actual photo.

I often use markers and spray paint to create my graffiti artwork and envision a pop art graffiti style that is urban feeling but can certainly be applied to anywhere media is located – thus this is an international collaboration of voice and stylistic creation.

The visibility of media in all our lives is somewhat the kind of theory of pop graffiti whereby we are unable to separate ourselves (or very hard often to do so easily). Our movies, our TV, our magazines and music videos and pop stars are all dramatically enveloped in a life like graffiti art painting where we hold identity with these images and take them on for our own.

I will elaborate in future posts on how pop graffiti and pop graffiti photography among other tag names of styles of this new artform – pop art graffiti, graffiti art print, graffiti art urban etc. are very important cultural indicators of where we are currently as a mosaic society of all kinds and where we are going.

We have only touched the very surface of this identifiable pop graffiti artform and will continue to create exciting artwork for the enjoyment and self-realization of those who intend to interpret meaning from these deconstructive expressions of thought and intrinsic combinations of pop culture and the graffiti artforms.

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Edward (X=Tag) is a pop graffiti artist who has endeavored to find truth throughout his life and career. Over the past 15 years he has lived across Canada – in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Montreal. His experience as a pop graffiti artist attending key events in the international digital/DJ Culture and electronic music circuit, such as many spectacular Black & Blue Festivals (one of the largest fundraisers for HIV/AIDS in the world) and countless other parties and events, has given him an independent and unique perspective to create original pop graffiti artwork that represent a transformative time and space.

He was born November 10th, 1976 in Provost, Alberta, Canada and was raised in the area. He was very successful in academics, athletics and artistic pursuits throughout his childhood and subsequently won a full scholarship to attend The Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, New Mexico, USA which is an international high school. UWC‐USA was a formative experience for Edward and instilled in him a love for being creative, cooperative and collaborative with people from diverse cultures and walks of life.

Graffiti Purple X Model on Wall

After graduating from UWC‐USA, he attended Trinity College at The University of Toronto as a National Scholar where he established his soul calling and career as a pop graffiti artist and continued to develop his artistic vision and skills. Since his time at Trinity College at U of T he has prepared a full exhibition and complete pop graffiti design installation at Gallery X of Xtra! Magazine, created various other artistic projects and  also has sold many of his pop graffiti artworks to private collectors.

Row of X Models

Edward has created many hundreds of artworks that can be described as “pop‐graffiti” while being a component in the development of DJ culture in Canada’s counterculture art and electronic music festivals. He aspires to achieve a shift in thinking with anyone’s mind who might experience his work and aims to also offer a special and meaningful perspective towards the undercurrents of artistic digital/organic heritage recently popularized in new media artforms. A fresh yet reflective awareness can be seen via his deep influences from idols Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Pablo Picasso and Banksy. Within the multicultural and international mosaic of present day media his work transcends conventional beliefs to challenge the age old question “What is art?”.

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Dancing alien figures freely transfixed upon popular fashion ads also depict not only a pop graffiti style and tone but a kind of pop modern surrealism and abstraction as well that is alluring and mesmerizing in both his use of dramatic line and stylish juxtaposition of form and movement. Reinterpreting messages of “(R)evolution” that are mysteriously embedded in pop images of cultural collective media milieu, he discovers didactic lessons to draw upon. He comments on the dichotomy/dualistic life and the paradoxical realities of humanity while celebrating both extreme elements of light and darkness. Being an artist having lived in both the 20th and 21st Centuries he enjoys commenting on our tumultuous and fascinating period of history throughout his artwork.

All images of Edward’s pop graffiti artwork are displayed in his anthology collection and main website (www.RevolutionofX.com) and can be purchased as exclusive edition digital fine art prints on premium canvas – more information for you regarding placing an order is all there.

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