Futura: I blame him for everything

Futura has a lot to answer for. Thanks to his work on the Unkle Psyence Fiction album in 1997, the New York grafitti artist can consider himself responsible for reawakening my dormant interest in art and for chanelling it in the direction of the street.

Through his Pointman creations and epic alien-looking spacescape creations, Futura as good as put a spraycan in my hand. Since that time I have painted many a picture, nothing remotely like Futura, but I would say it had all stemmed from that moment. Call it an epiphany if you like.

Of course Futura was around a long time before those Pointman paintings - he was one of the founding New York subway artists in the seventies and eighties along with the likes of Dondi and Seen, but even then his work was standing away from the crowd. While his peers were busy scrawling bubble letters across carriages, Futura was producing his spraycan cloudscapes with sharp-edged patterns. An altogether more artistic production.

These days Futura's work commands fortunes at the finest galleries and as well as his art he has a clothing line and other projects on the go.

This video gives us an insight into the artist and what he is all about.

Via Slamxhype

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