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A work of graffiti by Ben Decker who seems to be a well known tagger in the 18th of Paris.



Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 04:53:47 AM EST


Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 04:59:07 AM EST
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I've often said that there's a huge amount of talent on the streets.  It's always quite exciting (I think) when you catch the work of a good artist and see their trademark style in different places.

Ben Deker is much more than a tagger!  Tags are the artist 'names', usually done with thick black markers and repeated everywhere, like a dog weeing on lamposts to mark its territory.  Tags imo spoil the urban landscape and give graffiti a bad name.  Bottom LH corner of this photo shows the tag of the artist who put this piece on the wall, like a signature. Fine in that context, but scribbled all over the place smacks of immaturity.  Well, that's my tuppence worth!!

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 06:22:02 AM EST
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I believe (not 100% sure) that the graffiti artists in France refer to themselves as "taggers."

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 06:34:05 AM EST
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Ah fair enough then. Although I think they are selling themselves short!
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 08:42:42 AM EST
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French wikipedia has a whole serie:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti

by Laurent GUERBY on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 02:16:21 PM EST
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Thanks for the reference.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 03:00:07 PM EST
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Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 08:28:47 AM EST
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Somewhere between St. Cyr and Vaires (e.g. along the RER C route until Invalides, or in the stations of RER B, or going out from Gare l'Est), but I can't remember where, I saw a stunningly good graffity, showing four to six dark faces with defiant looks, each seemingly a portrait. Has anyone seen that graffiti?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:00:30 AM EST
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Thinking of it... it may also have been on the concrete support wall along which St. Cyr station's access road runs, making it less likely that any Parisien saw it.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:04:21 AM EST
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I found this graffiti in an abandoned railway line on the northern end of the 18th arrondissment (near avenue St. Ouen) which might have been part of a line that circled Paris. I'll check with my wife when she gets home.
I don't know the art you're speaking of but I may have to go searching for it.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:06:26 AM EST
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Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 08:25:56 AM EST
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