Art de Street

This tag was found on the side of a train car sitting on the tracks on 8th street. The letteres have a very animated and playful quaility to them. This is in part due to the rounded edges and fatness of the letters, the color scheme, the three dimensional effect, and the ornamental details (such ast the orange spots on two of the letters and the small character to the right). Tyler made a good point about the overlapping letterforms. This makes the the viewer see the entire work as a unit. I particularly like how the artist applied a heavy black stroke around the word, contrasting greatly with the warm colors inside, and creating a definite division from the art to the rest of the train car. This contains the piece and makes it "pop" extremely well.