It impacts my life in a massive way, you hear music everywhere, stores, cars, buses, on the streets. How does music impact your life ? Why is music important to you and your art? And the reason I covered the cello with tags, it's to give the impression the guy is using another creative style to create a new meaning or feeling. I really like the visual aspect of the "Cello Player", its a really unpractical big instrument but that"s one of my favorites if used correctly. There is something really powerful with both instruments and the music movements. Try to vary with everything from pop, to hip-hop and punk/rock. The obvious reasons are of course how music inspires my art, I always litsten to music when I paint. Can you tell MoW, what is the music behind the artworks ? How did music inspired them? Hi Martin, today MoW selected 2 of your artworks that are inspired by music. He use grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives.Since his artistic debut in 2004, he has had several solo shows and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and in international metropoles like Tokyo, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. His abstract graffiti and stencils are a mix of urban scenes showing the development of a walls lifetime. Inspired by artist like Jose Parlá and Cy Twombly. His artistic expression started more political, but has developed into a more subtle expression blending graffiti, stencil art and decay together. This interest for decay has helped develop his style, motives and composition and he enjoys creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, motives and human intervention. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. After following graffiti and its development, he started his own stencil production 10 years ago in the winter of 2004. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo, he discovered stencils and the urban art scene. 1984) is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment, then vandalises it to reveal his vibrant transformations.Martin Whatson (b. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. Martin Whatson (b.1984) is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. You can see Whatson's work finishing the piece on each sides of the road. From there walk across the parking lot to Henrik Bulls vei. To get to the art simply take the bus or train to Jessheim station. In Jessheim Whatson and Eric Ness Christiansen have done a huge piece together. Whatson has also done a piece at Bekkestua elementary school. The town center is only a short walk from the train station. You will find one of his pieces in this project at lille smuget in Asker. Martin Whatson has painted several walls around the Oslo region in correlation with a project called SPRAY. Discover amazing street art around in Greater Oslo done by Martin Whatson.
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