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Description of Peanuts:
Traditional writing would present protagonists as autonomous and developed characters ready to be described. With the birth of the anti-hero, the character's reality started to be described in fieri, while running events would model his persona. This is developed by the means of an internal monologue, which likens Dan Colen to Leopold Bloom and his peripatetic voyage throughout the streets of Dublin. These paths are operated via an immediate transcription, unable to carry a rational order. By a banal and personal action such as eating peanuts, the voyage of the artist becomes a tumultuous and vivid description of the society surrounding him. This direct discursive language is the basis of graffiti's technique, which is an art form that can't be unhitched from the illegal and counterculture obligations: once graffiti is staged, it succumbs to the state of order and graceful communal acceptance and becomes relegated to the glittering ghetto that shaped its reason to fight against it. The artist does not look for any legitimation, the tumultuous forces into his consciousness would not permit that. He leaves footmarks of his passage while leaving another peanut shell to the ground.
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Description of Dan Colen:
American artist Dan Colen is part of the art scene that has recently developed around New York’s Lower East Side. Informally known as the “Bowery School,” artists such as Colen, Nate Lowman, Aaron Young , Ryan McGinley , Gardar Eide Einarsson , Banks Violette , Dash Snow (who died in 2009), Agathe Snow , Hanna Liden , Lizzie Bougatsos and Adam McEwen share an engagement with the city they live in and with “sub-urban” culture in general. Their narratives revolve around the social fabric that determines contemporary life—with their savvy, sincerity and social alertness they are the “street kids” artists.
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