Looking at Daze's art piece named Life in the Fast Lane, it seems as if his artwork spoke his life. Being born in New York, Daze grew up exposed to the New York fast life. Everything moved at incredible speeds and this art piece captured this with a contrast of a slowed-down night.
Daze began his art career spray painting graffiti on trains and buildings. Then he moved from the streets to a blank canvas. Even with this transition, Daze still embodied spray paint in his artwork with a few other elements like oil paints. Daze's connection to spray paint is shown through many of his other paintings. Some people usually associate graffiti in negative connotations, but Daze exposed spray paint as a true art and something that is used as music to some people--a way of expression.
In the painting, the art shows a contrast between fast life New York and a slowed down New York life. The painting is divided up into two squares. The bigger square shows fast New York life. The taxi is fading into the night as if it is going at a fast speed and the bus is doing the same thing. The color scheme that he uses is very black, gray, and white with graffiti in the mix. This displays a some kind of hostile tone. Then the middle shows a slowed down pace. People are walking, cars are parked, and the night sky looks calm.
Overall, Daze uses many different elements in this specific artwork to portray his life in New York. With these different elements, I believe that he accurately portrayed this.
Daze began his art career spray painting graffiti on trains and buildings. Then he moved from the streets to a blank canvas. Even with this transition, Daze still embodied spray paint in his artwork with a few other elements like oil paints. Daze's connection to spray paint is shown through many of his other paintings. Some people usually associate graffiti in negative connotations, but Daze exposed spray paint as a true art and something that is used as music to some people--a way of expression.
In the painting, the art shows a contrast between fast life New York and a slowed down New York life. The painting is divided up into two squares. The bigger square shows fast New York life. The taxi is fading into the night as if it is going at a fast speed and the bus is doing the same thing. The color scheme that he uses is very black, gray, and white with graffiti in the mix. This displays a some kind of hostile tone. Then the middle shows a slowed down pace. People are walking, cars are parked, and the night sky looks calm.
Overall, Daze uses many different elements in this specific artwork to portray his life in New York. With these different elements, I believe that he accurately portrayed this.