Futura 2000 is one of the leading graffiti and commercial artists still living. He came to fame for his colorful, vibrant graffiti on New York City subway cars in the 1980s. In The Red Egg (2008), the electric color palate of yellows, reds and oranges, as well as the doubly improvised and controlled form of the painting brings live, street energy inside the painterly field. What amounted to a citywide crusade against graffiti in New York - due to the city's desire to manufacture a pristine, controlled image - became a fetishization of street hipness by the art world. Take note of the successful careers of Futura 2000, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Harring, Lady Pink and other graffiti artists.
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