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A Brief History of the Traditional Street Painting Art Form:
“Street painting is truly an art form that is able to reach people and has done so for centuries going back to its roots in Sixteenth Century Europe, especially in Italy, in which the Madonnari (street painting artists) would travel from town to town following the plentiful Holy Days (holidays) to draw images of the Madonna and religious subjects as their means of expressing their art and earning their living.
The Second World War seriously affected the livelihoods and numbers of the Madonnari, and the art form nearly died out, although there were some itinerant Madonnari seen performing their art in Europe in the late 1960’s by American artists. In 1972 street painting art was revived in the founding of the Incontro Nazionale dei Madonnari in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. The first street painting festival in North America was the I Madonnari Festival of Santa Barbara in 1987 and continues to this day with as many as 400 artists and young people working on street paintings each Memorial Day weekend at the end of May. Today there are many dedicated street painting festivals in North America and in Europe bringing thousands of street painting artists and fans worldwide together to celebrate the art form and provide local support in their communities for arts education and activities.
Some of the best known and respected festivals in the USA are the Italian Street Painting Festival by Youth in Arts in San Rafael, CA, The Annual Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in Lake Worth, FL, and the I Madonnari Festival in Santa Barbara, CA. Newer festivals with a strong future ahead of them are the Festival Bella Via in Monterrey, Mexico, and a growing number of street painting festivals in Canada, the Netherlands, France, Belgium as well as exhibitions in Japan and Hong Kong.” – Anthony Cappetto
A recent development in the street painting art form in the twenty first century is the use of user generated video, blogging, and podcasting of street painting artists at all levels of ability and their fans worldwide. This new technological advance offers opportunity for all street painting, artists, festivals, and fans to allow a window not only to their latest image or festival appearance but a chance to let others know why they street paint and to encourage others – especially the younger generation of street painters to become known and grow in experience. Reaching the public in this way allows the performance aspects of street painting to be shared with many who do not readily have the opportunity to see street painting in person.
About Street Painting Artist Rod Tryon:
Rod Tryon has been street painting for more than 20 years, often the featured artist for numerous street painting festivals and special events worldwide.
Street Painting Highlights include: Team member of two separate group projects re-creating the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo in California (2003) and in Mexico (2007).
Team member of a group street painting project creating a featured piece for the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival in Hong Kong in 2005.
Featured artist at Artisphere International Arts Festival 2008 in Greenville, SC, where Rod created a 3-D ‘Koi Pond’ for the public’s enjoyment.
Recent corporate 3-D street painting projects for the launch of AT&T’s BlackBerry Red Pearl in San Francisco, Hardee’s ‘ThickBurger’ at the Opening Day Rally for the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Louis, and a trade show piece for GE Healthcare in Atlanta, GA in 2007.
Rod's favorite street paintings are 3-D images.
"Creating a piece that looks like it is coming up out of the street, or an image appearing to disappear into a hole in the asphalt, is a special treat to both the artist and onlookers." He's often asked if it's difficult to deal with the fact that his artwork is so temporary. He answers that by saying "Street Painting is very much like performance art. The finished product is important, but the journey of the creation is a large part of the joy of the art form. Street painters look at their works as special gifts to those lucky enough to see the artwork being created."
When he’s not at a street painting festival; Rod works as a freelance artist focusing on pastels on paper and canvas, acrylic paintings, graphic design, pastel illustration and computer illustration. Originally from Pennsylvania, Rod received a BFA /Advertising degree from Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA. He then moved to Santa Cruz, CA where he became the graphic artist for the Northwest Division of Kinko’s Copies and later to Santa Barbara, CA after being promoted to national art director for Kinko’s corporate offices in Ventura, CA. He now lives in Cutchogue, Long Island, NY.
Some of Rod's street painting work may be viewed on the web site: artforafterhours.com; popular videos can be seen on streetpainting.tv and YouTube. Rod Tryon is exclusively represented for street painting art by Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours (www.artforafterhours.com) in New York City.
Live 3-D Street Painting: Artist Rod Tryon
For: AT&T/BlackBerry
Courtesy of Art for After Hours
Live 3-D Street Painting: Artist Rod Tryon
For: Artisphere International Arts Festival
Pictured: Wendy Stum/Streetpainting.tv
Photo: Anthony Cappetto/Streetpainting.tv
Courtesy of Art for After Hours
Live 2-D Street Painting: Artist Anthony Cappetto (team member)
For: Festival Bella Via/ Monterrey, Mexico
Photo: Wendy Stum/Streetpainting.tv
Courtesy of Art for After Hours
Live 2-D Street Painting: Artist Anthony Cappetto (team member)
For: Festival Bella Via/ Monterrey, Mexico
Photo: Wendy Stum/Streetpainting.tv
Courtesy of Art for After Hours
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3-D Street Painting Art Exhibition held in Second Life in July 2008
Monday 30th June saw the launch of a novel experiment in Ten Cubed, the contemporary art gallery in Second Life run by the Haydn Shaughnessy gallery. For the month of July the gallery showcased street painting from artist Rod Tryon of the United States in conjunction with other contemporary art from established gallery artists.
"We see street painting has a tremendous following with events like the one upcoming in Palo Alto attracting as many as 150,000 people. So although we are a conventional gallery we can't ignore what attracts and engages people. We're really happy to cooperate with Anthony Cappetto and streetpainting.tv to put street art on the gallery and let people judge its merits alongside some great contemporary art." - Haydn Shaughnessy
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Augmented Reality Demonstration at (CTIA), Las Vegas, Nevada
Street painting artist Anthony Cappetto of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., will be using spray colors instead of chalk to create fun street art at a virtual demonstration on the campus of Georgia Tech courtesy of the Augmented Environments Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Anthony will be one of a group performing graffiti in the virtual space.
The graffiti content will be super-imposed onto the actual campus buildings using augmented reality (AR) technologies. The participants at CTIA will see a video of a person outdoors and separately, a video of that person's augmented view of the campus.
Anthony will be creating graffiti from:
12:00pm-2pm PST (3pm-5pm EST)
3:45pm-4:15pm PST (6:45pm-7:15pm EST)
The demo is scheduled for the times between 10:00am - 5pm PST (1:00pm - 8:00pm EST)
About Street Painting Artist Anthony Cappetto:
Anthony Cappetto has been active in street painting since 2001, as a participant and as a strong supporter of street painters and street painting festivals along with Wendy Stum have been a part bringing the art form of street painting to an international level from the US, Italy, Mexico, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai). Anthony has participated in public street painting festivals in California, Italy and Mexico. [above, Anthony Cappetto street painting for public art exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in Feburary, 2009].
Please feel free to visit www.artforafterhours.com/1002_ACstreetpainting.html to see Anthony's street painting art page. You can also read posted interviews with street painting artists and festival directors from the USA and internationally on the ISPG blog 'Blog Now on streetpainting.tv'.
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