I think his art in itself is pretty boring and is only made interesting by the medium, and it's not like his approach to the medium is that unique either.
That's fair. I'd say the only thing I find impressive about his work is the scale of some of it (assuming its actually being done surreptitiously). Besides that, the motifs are mostly unremarkable as far as wheatpasting/tagging goes. On the whole, he strikes me as the vanguard of turning street art into a sign of gentrification. When he first started getting recognized internationally he seemed like some kind of subversive spiderman figure but nowadays there's nothing gentrifying hipsters like more than a mural.
That said, tagging and wheatpasting is rad as hell and you all should try it if it's not too much of a risk. You don't need to be very artistically inclined to slap some glue and newsprint on a wall.
I think his art in itself is pretty boring and is only made interesting by the medium, and it's not like his approach to the medium is that unique either.
That's fair. I'd say the only thing I find impressive about his work is the scale of some of it (assuming its actually being done surreptitiously). Besides that, the motifs are mostly unremarkable as far as wheatpasting/tagging goes. On the whole, he strikes me as the vanguard of turning street art into a sign of gentrification. When he first started getting recognized internationally he seemed like some kind of subversive spiderman figure but nowadays there's nothing gentrifying hipsters like more than a mural.
That said, tagging and wheatpasting is rad as hell and you all should try it if it's not too much of a risk. You don't need to be very artistically inclined to slap some glue and newsprint on a wall.