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Finally I have created a poster I believe is my best yet. I used a Brooklyn map in the background and over the top my spray paint and paint pen images I made in analogue. I really love this poster. Ive named it. “We Put Brooklyn On The Map!” Putting something on the map is a common rap lyric and Brooklyn is were my artists are from. This was my take on fine are graffiti. 

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This is the next poster Ive made. I still think my poster isn't right there is too much writing.

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This was my next attempt at my poster. In this idea I used a map of brookyn inside a zoomed in graffiti “O”. I reference Brooklyn because it is the birth place of hip-hop as well as my referenced artists. 

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I got a whole bunch of materials to use for my poster. I got spray paint, paint, a bold black paint pen and a3 paper. I attempted my first try at graffiti which I think turned of really nice. 

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This is my first go at the poster. Its basically just a collage. All in all just a test I don't want ti use this as my final poster it just just me dumbing ideas. 

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For my poster Ive decided to create a graffiti art work with my own twist of fine art. Ive been down high street before uni and I took photos of all the graffiti I saw. These tags make up my mood-board.

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I found that these art works are the ones I want to add to my easy to back up my point of influence. I thought I should add important and famous pieces of art in my easy to show how my personas actually portrayed there ideas. 

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Research

https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/hip-hop/hip-hop-a-culture-of-vision-and-voice/

The Fifth Element

Hip Hop’s fifth element of “knowledge” teaches the Hip Hop community about its identity and ways to express that identity. It places great importance on claiming a stake in one’s own education. “Knowing where YOU come from helps to show YOU where YOU are going,” writes legendary MC KRS-One. “Once you know where you come from you then know what to learn.” (By the way, “KRS” stands for “Knowledge Reigns Supreme.”)

Hip Hop believes that people can take control of their lives through self-knowledge and self-expression. Knowledge influences style and technique and connects its artists under a collective Hip Hop umbrella. It engages the world through Hip Hop’s history, values, and ideas, and adds intellectual muscle to support and inform its music and moves and its poetry and art. Most importantly, it allows for a shared experience against an uncertain world.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/1/34/htm

Hip-hop has become an established global phenomenon, influencing many facets of society including art, art education, and visual culture. The possibilities and ramifications of this influence have been noted by many scholars and educators. A number of these authors have discussed connections between hip-hop and visual art while others have explored the use of hip-hop in art education as a tool for critically examining visual culture

Ive found a few more sources. These are for backing up my “Review of Contextual Knowledge.” I found and interesting view on the elements of rap that have finalised my idea that hip-hop creates the knowledge to express yourself. 

Also found another source that I read through which helped me understand scholars views and other ways I can explain my ideas. 

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Basquiat

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/arts/design/basquiat-street-artists-hip-hop.html

In bringing their anti-establishment work from the subways and streets to the canvases of the predominantly white art world, they also helped shape hip-hop culture, collaborating with musicians and filmmakers to transport their visions to the international stage

“There’s been this distinction that’s been made between street art and fine art,” Munsell added, asserting that graffiti influenced the figurative and expressionist painting of artists including Frank Stella and Jenny Holzer in the 1970s and ’80s. “We’re trying to collapse that boundary.

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Further Basquiat Research

https://www.artnews.com/feature/who-was-jean-michel-basquiat-why-was-he-important-1234579679/

In May 2016, one of his “Head” paintings sold for $57.3 million. The following year, Untitled, a Basquiat from 1982, sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s, setting a record for an American artist. The dealer Jeffrey Deitch, who gave the eulogy at Basquiat’s funeral, said after the sale that the artist was now in the “same league” as Pablo Picasso, meaning—maybe—that Basquiat’s prices were buoyed by a similar alchemy: limited supply, raw talent, and a fascinating biography. And his work is getting the major surveys it deserves, too—one focused on hip-hop and his paintings is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Basquiat said anti-materialist Samo was born as “a tool for mocking bogusness” and found it hilarious that the “uptight, middle-class pseudos” in Manhattan had fallen for his ruse. “They’re doing exactly what we thought they’d do,” he said “We tried to make it sound profound and they think it actually is!” 

experience of living through New York City’s economic blight in the 1970s. 

He described a large space lit by a skylight and assistants who restocked his supplies. He blasted hip-hop while he finished one or two paintings a day.

Race explicitly entered his work for the first time, reflecting a growing consciousness of his own position within the New York art world. Created during that period, Irony of Negro Policeman offers a biting critique of those who serve the powers that oppress and exploit them

Spooner draws a direct connection between the music’s volatility and Basquiat’s turbulent canvases filled with gestural brushwork, anguished figures, and crossed-out words. “Basquiat’s art looks the way no wave sounds: an untrained raw expression,” he says.

Basquiat also had roots in the burgeoning New York hip-hop scene, from his early graffiti work with Al Diaz collaborating under the name SAMO (Same Old Shit), to his sleeve design and production for Beat Bop, a 1983 single by Rammellzee and K-Rob. (In 1981, he also appeared as a DJ in Blondie’s Rapture, the first music video with a rap to appear on MTV.)

In the third film, Dr Todd Boyd likens Basquiat’s use of text to the way a DJ scratches a record, using previously recorded material to make a new sound. “When I see Basquiat crossing out text, crossing out words, it, for me, has often implied something like scratching,” he explains, “particularly what this means in terms of early hip-hop, this concept of the remix comes through quite strongly when one looks at how often Basquiat would use this device.”

In the third film, Dr Boyd links the seemingly chaotic, confrontational style of Basquiat’s paintings to the layered, intricate production of hip-hop producers like the Bomb Squad who created Public Enemy’s signature sound. “The music doesn’t necessarily go out to the listener. It expects that the listener, if the listener is going to understand, will come to the music.” In a similar way he notes, “you can’t view Basquiat’s work passively, it requires that you actively engage with the material.”

This was a great source these were some of the really interesting point I found that have really given me understanding into how Basquiat creates and his backstory. 

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Research

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/podcasts/art-hip-hop

Jay-Z’s appreciation for Jean-Michel Basquiat is a great example of this. He has been name-dropping the artist in his raps for years and even brags about his daughter Blue Ivy owning a Basquiat painting. Speaking of Basquiat, he and Artist Keith Haring were both key figures in showing hip hop aesthetics in their work. From Basquiat's entitled History of the Black people, which linked the history of the Egyptians to Africa to Haring's mural Crack Is Wack which was displayed in the streets of Harlem. Both these artists portrayed the social issues faced by Black and LatinX communities in their art.

Art of hip hop is that hip hop is art. That's the art of hip hop. It is art, full stop, and it is wonderful. It's rich. There's so much breadth to the art of hip hop. Is a totaller. It's a perfecter.

This was another good source were I have found some key points in the merge of both hip-hop and fine art. 

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Research (Fab 5 Freddy)

https://www.fab5freddy.com/bio.html

He initially exploded on the scene in the late 70’s as one of the first Graffiti artist to exhibit his paintings internationally

Close friends and contemporaries, Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Jean Michele Basquiat, Lee QuinonesGave 

Key in making the world understand the graffiti art movement and the birth of street art

Take Basquiat’s 1983 piece Untitled (History of the Black People), for example, which critiques the West’s understanding of history and its forgetfulness towards slavery.

Getting these artists into the mainstream was key to the future relationship between hip hop and art, driving the interest of those within the rap community in artwork that really spoke to them on a personal level.

Hip Hop and fine art began to intercept in the 80’s

In the 90’s things began to change

Although hip hop was popular in the 80s, it truly took off in the following decade as mainstream artists like the Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Nas began ruling the airwaves. By the end of the 90s, hip hop was the biggest-selling genre commercially, finally eschewing its perception as an underground genre. This meant many rappers with newfound fame found common ground with those in the fine art industry and had the means to make a splash in this world too.

HIP HOP STARS EMBRACED ART IN THEIR OWN WORK

I discovered Freddy through research on Basquiat. His influence was just as important as Basquiat. Freddy was a key factor in bringing graffiti to fine arts. This is a great opportunity to talk about early influence of graffiti that mixed paths with the sound of hip-hop because they were found found together in DJ backdrops and the streets where hip-hop was invented. 

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New Approach

Title / Rhythms Of Design 

Subtitle / An exploration of how hip-hop’s influence has been translated to create fine art. 

Question / How has the influence of hip-hop music been translated to create art? How did both hip-hop and fine art work together? What are the hidden stories found in the artworks created from this influence?

This is my refinement of my Subtitle and Question. I found that I was going to struggle to much with added punk into the mix. Punk obviously had influence on hip-hip but Ive decided to just focus on what I know which is just hip-hop itself. I think there is more meaning in just the hip-hop scene and I don't want to mix it with punk. Im just going to stick with my passion. I fell pretty good about this change, 

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Research

https://www.artlife.com/the-relationship-between-art-and-hip-hop-culture/

In its infancy, hip hop was largely about marginalised groups using music to deliver messages regarding identity and empowerment, breaking the hegemony that corporations and governments had over public narratives.

Both were (and still are) mediums allowing individuals to communicate sociopolitical messages in a creative way. It is, therefore, no surprise thast these two forms have crossed over a lot through the years.

Whether graffiti covered the DJ booth or featured on buildings nearby, it created a stylized aesthetic that solidified the link between the two in the eyes of many, especially as many rappers were street artists too. This relationship was so strong that graffiti is commonly deemed one of the four elements of hip hop culture alongside deejaying (turntabling), rhyming (MCing) and B-boying (breakdancing).

During the 70’s and 80’s HipHop and fine art started to fine a good mix thanks to New York Graffitii artist and rapper ‘Fab 5 Freddy.’

This is one of the early sources I discovered and after going through this reading and others Ive changed my mind on my to approach this assignment. 

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Abstract (First Attempt)

Hip-hop and fine arts, two categories you would think could never merge. The distance between the two mediums and them working together sounds so vast. How could the gangster rap of the 90’s with names like The Notorious B.I.G., 2PAC, and Mob Deep.’ Gangsters from some of the most dangerous blocks in America mix their world with fine art? The first album I bought was Justin Biebers “My World” back in 2010 and in all honesty I loved the album a-lot which I find very concerning thinking about it now. However my concern isn’t greater than my mothers. Nowadays I’m blasting hardcore hip-hop when doing the smallest of tasks around the house while my mum says to me, “what happened to JB, who the hell are the $uicideboy$ and why is suicide in their name?, they all sound the bloody same.” When my mum nor my dad are playing music I am hypnotising my parents with raps lyricism so that one day they will hear what I hear and understand my love for the genre. It’s taken about 16 years and it’s worked.

I tried to make is personal and funny but I found it hard to write this without my essay yet. 

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This is my presentation were I showcase my visual links and new ides. 

I got a little bit of feedback from David. I was helpful but he kind off told me stuff I already new which is okay. I changed my topic again a bit late so I hadn't made as much progress as I wanted. But I intend to keep going with this topic because I'm passionate about it. 

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Basquiat Research

Ive been researching Basquiat because of his influence in bridging the gap between early hip-hop and art. He took huge influence form hip-hop music and translated it into his own art that became global famous really quick. 

His story and art works will form another avenue of research. 

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND HIP HOP CULTURE

https://www.artlife.com/the-relationship-between-art-and-hip-hopculture

Growing Up With Jean-Michel Basquiat | I Was There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-kYompsyLU