Artist Post #3

Invader is a French street artist who pastes characters inspired by the game Space Invader on buildings. He uses tiles to form small mosaics, which look like 3D pixels on a bitmap. He will paste them in cities all over the world and then he will call it an "invasion" and place where to find each work in books or maps. Because the Space Invader game was done at such a low resolution, the images it produced had large visible pixels, like those of the small video game landscapes we created one of our first classes. Like I said earlier, these characters can be easily reproduced with square tiles which represent pixels. Placement of these space invaders is not trivial. Each one is placed meticulously, whether it be conceptual or purely for aesthetics. Sometimes Invader enjoys hiding the works and sometimes he enjoys placing them where many people will view them. In one city in southern France, Montpellier, he placed his space invaders so that when they were viewed on a map they created one giant space invader. Invader has another project that he also works on called "Rubikcubism" where he created works from Rubik's Cubes. Though I couldn't find much on how exactly he produces these rubikcubism works, from pictures I have seen, like the one below, of the process, it appears as though he is working from an image created on the computer, which I assume to be done in photoshop. I assume it to be done in photoshop since photoshop breaks everything down into pixels, which is what the squares on a Rubik's Cube ultimately are.

rubikcubism

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space invader

Though his work is not complex, I do still think it is genuinely good art, and it is certainly original. The striking bright, and mainly primary colors really evoke a feeling of excitement. His choice of color also could be because it allows his work to stand out on the neutral colored background of a city. I feel as though his concept of an invasion is very relevant to the art he practices because street art is in a way an "invasion," since you are pasting work on something that isn't yours. Since art is becoming so much more accessible, in part because of digital art programs like photoshop and illustrator, I feel as though there will be an invasion of art greater than we have ever had before.

cool website with a bunch of his work!
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