1984 Hambleton West Germany Magazine Ad

By: Richar Hambleton

Year: 1984

Condition: 4

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Medium: Advertisement

Frame: Black Metal w/ Float

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Richard Art Hambleton (June 23, 1952 – October 29, 2017) was a Canadian^[1] artist known for his work as a street artist.^{[2][3] [4]} He was a surviving member of a group that emerged from the New York City art scene during the booming art market of the 1980s which also included Keith Haringand Jean-Michel Basquiat.^[5][6] While often associated with graffiti art, Hambleton considered himself a conceptual artist who made both public artand gallery works

It was in New York that Hambleton gained notoriety for his "Shadowman" paintings of the early 1980s. Each painting resembles a life-sized silhouetted image of some mysterious person, a "splashy shadow figure."^[16] These "shadow paintings" were splashed and brushed with black paint on hundreds of buildings and other structures across New York City.^[17] Locations were believed to be calculated for maximum impact upon unsuspecting pedestrians. Very often, a "Shadowman" could be found in a dark alley or lurking just around a street corner. ^[18] Hambleton later expanded the scope of his project and painted these "shadowmen" in other cities, including Paris, London and Rome,^[19] and in 1984 he painted 17 life-size figures on the East side of the Berlin Wall, returning a year later to paint more figures on the West side of the wall.^[20][21] In 1983, during Malcolm McLaren's fashion design partnership with Vivienne Westwood, they collaborated with Hambleton to create a "Shadowman" jersey skirt.