ABOVE is an international street artist who has decided to keep his identity unknown. He is american and he communicates with his audience through his website where he explains why he does every one of his pieces but does not want people to know who he is, because he believes that people shouldn't associate him with a person but with his art. He is a well known and recognized artist for his multi-layered, bold colored, social and political stencil, his iconic arrows and his big bolded lettered messages. No matter what media he choses most of his work have a strong influence and message in international political and social problems happening around the world.
One work that gives a REALLY strong message is his mural in Johannesburg, South Africa. This was a huge risk because he did it right outside of Jewel City where inside there are the biggest diamond traders in the world and their state traders association, it is also the biggest exporter in the southern hemisphere exporting over 7 billion worth of diamonds every year. He did this in protest of the well known blood diamonds. It was really controversial and really opened a lot of people eyes, getting recognition from several different newspapers and blogs. This is just one of the hundreds of ways he goes against political and social issues around the world.
He is also well known for his famous arrows which try to give out the message of always looking at life in a positive outcome and try to make everything look up. He has puts hundre
ds of arrows all around the world trying to spread this message, one of the places with the most arrows is Miami, FL where he started putting them eiens legally to get the cops tricked and then finish with hundreds illegally. This is just some of the many risks that this artist takes spread his message around the world.
Works Cited
ABOVE. "ARROWS." Above.com. ABOVE, n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. <http://goabove.com/arrows_arrows_and_more_arrows.html>.
ABOVE. "ARROWS." Above.com. ABOVE, n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. <http://goabove.com/arrows_arrows_and_more_arrows.html>.
ABOVE. "Playing With Workds." Above.com. ABOVE, n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. <http://goabove.com/playingwithwords.html>.
Medina, Sarah. "ABOVE's Anti-Diamond Mural: Street Artist Tricks Diamond Exporter, Paints Controversial Message (PHOTOS)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 13 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/above-anti-diamond-mural_n_1424092.html>.
Medina, Sarah. "ABOVE's Anti-Diamond Mural: Street Artist Tricks Diamond Exporter, Paints Controversial Message (PHOTOS)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 13 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Nov. 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/above-anti-diamond-mural_n_1424092.html>.
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