Lee Quiñones, born 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised in New York, is one of the most important graffiti artists. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ponce ( IPA) officially the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce, is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Southern Coastal Plain region New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property Some of his paintings belong in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney" harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art
By 1976, graffiti artists like Quinones began painting entire murals using advanced techniques. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating A mural is a Painting on a wall ceiling or other large permanent surface Some of the most memorable of Quinones' work were political in nature, calling for an end to the arms race, for example. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions The term arms race, in its original usage describes a competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy His work is featured in the book Subway Art (New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1984).
He plays Raymond 'Zoro' in Charlie Ahearn's movie Wild Style and appears in Blondie's promo video for the song "Rapture". For Charlie Ahearn director of Wild Style, please see Charlie Ahearn (director Charles Ahearn (dates of birth and death unknown was Wild Style was the first hip hop Motion picture. Released independently in 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 60 million records " Rapture " is a single by Blondie. It was released in January 1981 during the height of the band's success and became one of the first substantial hit singles He plays himself in Adam Bhala Lough's Bomb the System (2002). Bomb the System is a drama Film written and directed by Adam Bhala Lough, which was released to film festivals in 2002 (see 2002
Biography
Lee Quiñones has been at the forefront of American avant-garde and is universally regarded as a leading figure in the development and transition of Post-Graffiti within the contemporary art world. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Street art is any Art developed in Public spaces — that is "in the Streets quot — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature as Today, while displayed for an art-world audience, his work has landed in both public and private collections around the globe.
Along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lee Quiñones was one of the key innovators during the early days of New York’s street-art movement. Keith Haring ( May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City Jean-Michel Basquiat ( December 22 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American Artist. In keeping with his tradition of innovation, Quiñones was also one of the first street artists to transition away from creating murals on trains and begin creating canvas-based paintings. The 1979 exhibition of his canvases at Claudio Bruni’s Galleria Medusa in Rome introduced street art to the rest of the world. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 “These are people who see the graffiti experience as a vocation of adolescence, the rites of passage without a sense of direction,” says Lee. “I’m not surviving by offending it or defending it, but I saw it early on as a catalyst to develop as a painter and explore the other horizons outside of a forty foot subway car. My sense of art was to create art without a reference point to art history, because this was art history in the making. A true art movement never goes by the script, instead it flips the script, faithfully reinventing itself. ”
Lee was a major contributor to the first ever whole train mural, along with DOC, MONO and SLAVE. 10 subway cars were painted with a range of colourful murals and set a new benchmark for the scale of graffiti works.
While much of his current oeuvre continues to embody the energy and movement that typified his early work, it is formally much more complex. Quiñones’ art has essentially been a search for a greater metaphor than for mere topicality. His trains of the past, along with the murals and canvases of today have consistently distilled his introspective journey into self-awareness within broader, universal themes. His personal experience, the consciousness of who he is and what he feels, is but a jumping point to an epic accessible language and spatially allegorical narratives.
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