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The Beat of Urban Art
Justin Bua
The Art of Justin Bua
Collins Design
March 2007
On Sale: March 13, 2007
160 pages
ISBN: 0061153834
EAN: 9780061153839
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Justin Bua creates cool art. His wiggly–armed D.J. intently
scratches vinyl on a turntable, head and shoulder wedging
in place a set of headphones that he is too cool to wear,
while surrounded by the tools of his trade. In another
painting, two bald, shirtless basketball players on a city
playground rise into the air as the backboard and pole
snake ever upward towards surrounding tenement buildings.
In the background, a third player stands by in awe, mouth
agape, Afro Pick at attention in his hair, while their
earthbound buddies are a study in attitude. In "1981," a
breakdancer spins on his shoulders, Adidas–clad feet in the
air–a collection of characters from the uptown 'hood
circling him to marvel at his amazing moves. These are just
a few of the pieces included in The Beat of Urban Art,
which showcases a motley cast of jazz musicians, homeboys,
street hustlers, and neighborhood toughs–from the heavy–
lidded "Piano Man" in his cubist yellow jacket to the slyly
romantic "El Guitarrista," strumming his acoustic guitar
and peering lazily out of his bedroom eyes; from the
exuberant nighttime craps players of "Green Street" to the
joyously sneaky grafitti artist entering the subway yard
through a hole in the fence in "The Artist."
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