Wednesday 18 November 2009

Review of film 'Beautiful Losers'


The film, 'Beautiful Losers' follows several different artists through out there careers. The film shows many pieces of work by the different artists. There is a range of different pieces, and some of the artists, such as Steven 'Espo' Powers, do graffiti art ('Espo' being Steven Powers tag). In the film, the majority of the artists didn't mention their education. This could mean that a lot of them maybe didn't get any qualifications when they left education, so decided to do this art as their career.
Most of the artists did graffiti and skateboard art, and also punk rock and hip hop art.
The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include Thomas Campbell, Cheryl Dunn,Shepard Fairey,Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge,Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Steven 'Espo' Powers, Aaron Rose, Ed Templeton and Deanna Templeton.
Some of the artists mention how they are hired to create advertisments for popular products (such as Pepsi), designing some of the products themselves, working in films and creating their artwork in popular places where people will see and recognise their work.
The artists also talk a lot about different street cultures, especially punk rock, which is where the skateboard art came from.


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