Urban Signs and Symbols

This picture was taken just outside the college and i think really shows the background of bristle when ever a blank canvas is put up its only a matter of time till Urban artwork is painted on it

Literal: Graffiti on a wooden fence
Abstract: i think this brings so much colour to what would be a very boring dull street
Cultural: this picture is taken just outside my college in Bristol and Graffiti is very much the cultural of bristol so this fits right in






I Just had to add this one mainly because it is genus its a tranfer stuck over the top ov a ticket machine with only the hole for the ticket showing but it is made to look like a human head spits the ticket out, i think this is to show that the old and wise and eating our money with things like parking tickets and what not.

Literal: Ticket bos with a image of a mnas head wraped around it
Abstract: i think this is to show the sort of people that are controlling how much we have to spend on things like tickets and how they are just spitting " costs " out of there mouths all the time
Cultural: the world to today is only interested in things that catch there eyes which most things today just a way of trying to sell you something i think this is brillant in showing that we are all a slave to someone we dont k

i dont know where this was takening but the story i see in this picture is showing how dull the world is againest all these colours without them this picture wouldnt be a massiveness of grey and depression

Couldn't do a section on urban art and not add a banksy picture, Banksy is a very famous unknown artist from this Bristol area and almost very one of his pieces have a big story behind them usually political.
In this piece i believe that the meaning is that everything is just sweep under the carpet as such but this shows her sweeping it under a wall i think the wall symbolist the county and how we hide behind it

Literal: A image of a lady swiping things " under the carpet "
Abstract:this is showing that everything we do gets swep under the backgroud and that we dont see whats right in front of us sometimes because were to busy hiding things
Cultural: this i believe is very much against cultural its a image to show freedom of speech but in art form and i think it does it really well you can make your own meaning for any of banksys art work 

Basically picked this photo because i think its very smart using normal day things like a drain and changing it to look like something else like here a rabbit's mouth eating a carrot

Literal: a Drainage system with a rabbit drawn over it
Abstract: are we just flushing away stuff that could still be used or eaten?
Cultural: i dont believe there is any cultural side to this picture other then someones wanted to express there art somewhere other then on a blank page