art in english

WORK OF STREET ART BY NICK WALKER

This work of art was made by Nick Walker, a famous street artist born in 1969 in Bristol in England, in this work of art we can see his famous gentleman which is his trademark that we can see in many of his work. This gentleman appears on many of Walker’s work of art and became an icon of street art, most of the time the gentleman isn’t show and there is just his word “Vandal” and something that he lost in the hurry like a hat, or umbrella. This work is made with red spray cans and stencils because Nick Walker was considered as the master of stencil and a member of the stencil graffiti movement create by Robert Del Naja. Although Nick Walker is an English he made exhibition and work of art in different places like in Paris where he made different work of art but unfortunately the most of his work has been remove because on the contrary of England, there is no legal wall in Paris so it shows how ephemeral street art can be. His work of art shows a gentleman which is the symbol of England and virtue, who are painting on a wall the word “Vandal”. Nick Walker says in an interview that he chooses a gentleman because nobody except a gentleman to do an illegal work. To me the fact that this man is spray painting the word “Vandal” is really sarcastic and ironic because some people consider street art as vandalism so the fact that someone who is vandalizing a wall is writing the word “Vandal” in red, in order to caught the attention of the viewer, is funny and this is why I like this work of street art.

Thelma GABRIEL