POSTGRAFFISM

The development of graffiti and street art has taken a turn to a new art form and branch of it that includes influences of skateboard imagery, comics and typography. Most of the young artists creating this work are disciples of Ron English. So, in some ways English inspired this brand new art movement known as Postgraffism
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KAWZ Balloon for Macy's Parade

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— KAWS Keeps Rising: Brooklyn-based street artist-turned-gallery star Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, will join Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami in the exclusive hundred-feet-high club for artists whose work has floated in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In November his figure "Companion" — a grayscale giant with cartoonish gloved hands covering its face — will become the latest (and perhaps the saddest) artist-designed balloon to float in the popular parade. "I kept imagining myself in front of that many people," KAWS said. "He’s shy, a bit out of place, not proudly posing like a Superman character." 

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in macy's thanksgiving day parade 

KAWS/Macy's, Inc.A rendering of the character Companion, by the artist KAWS, as a balloon for the next Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.