I was looking at the labels on some old jungle 12" and thinking that the graffiti style lettering on a lot of the logo-sides was essentially generic -- it looked like graffiti but not any particular kind, from any particular era or region. Maybe some street artists would disagree, but I am wondering why the common aesthetic of graffiti doesn't look more postmodern?
The rigid mathematical forms and parallel lines in this roof garden seem to contrast pretty sharply with the organic shapes and curved lines in this wall piece.
I thought I would be a smart ass and combine these two visual flavors. Then I realized no one would notice tags that looked like the cover of a Photek album.
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So, after digging around for some samples of urban art that looked like the cover of something released Suburban Bass (as opposed something released on Science), it became pretty clear that contemporary architecture and contemporary street art have evolved in different directions. While the new Mac store (1) looks like the roof garden pictured above, postmodern graffiti seems to have evolved into a politicized "street art".
I finally have a decent argument for the next time one of those snobs from CBT tries to tell me how the architects are really the people shaping society. They're selecting an aesthetic to attach to the customer(2), but graffiti artists will still be drawing on buildings.
Some links used in this sketch:
Wooster Collective
Archinect
Fat Cap
1. Probably the most ubiquitous piece of postmodern architecture -- which maybe just makes it comodified but that's another topic.
2. Interstingly there is no way to tell if this is a private residence, a hotel or the the VIP room for the Brain Bar. They all look like rectangles to me.
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