Whats the name of the mural artist who uses enlarged magazine ads and then uses graffiti style to enhance it?

Question

I think this artist is still around. He started out as a graffiti tagger, then he began paining over magazine ads. Now he enlarges the faces in the ads really large and graffiti's over them like murals.

Answer 1

That sounds like Basquiat to me. Here's what I found:

"He was, all at once it seemed, the ultimate party animal, a wannabe streetkid and grafittist hiding his black Brooklyn middle class roots, an advocate and interpreter of the marginal and dispossessed at the court of the mainstream, an angry black aspirant to the all-white art canon, a precocious talent, a creature of cynical marketing and a fraud, a proto-muIticulturalist, an American original."

And, tragically, he died of a heroin overdose in 1988 - he was only 27 :(

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Andy Warhol, man:)
Go look him up. He's prolly one of the most influencial artists of last century.

Answer 3

um this is neither basquiat nor warhol.