Richard Hambleton has been called the godfather of street art, though that title is hotly debated. Hambleton began producing what he called ‘public art’ in New York City in the 1970s. He’s known for the black silhouette figures he first painted on the buildings of New York’s Lower East Side, which he called Shadowmen
ARTPIE - Richard Hambleton’s Shadowmen
We all used to think that only Banksy represented Street Art here in the UK but the history books will tell it differently (I hope). Now don’t get me wrong as I am a Banksy fan and of street art so called in general but the history will show from the early days of the Mexican Muralists (Rivera, Siqueros, Orozco et al) to the Basquiat’s and stellar Keith Haring taking the USA street levels of high art to the likes of Banksy with his more accessible street art all across the south of England and based in Bristol or so we think. The European tradition follows folk like Blek Le Rat and others but American Richard Hambleton seems to escape scrutiny and due recognition somehow . . . . . . .
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