{"id":1630,"date":"2011-07-20T06:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T22:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:21:31","slug":"meeting-of-styles-changsha-graffiti-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2011\/07\/20\/meeting-of-styles-changsha-graffiti-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting of Styles: Changsha Graffiti Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_overlook001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_overlook001.jpg\" alt=\"Overlooking the main location in Changsha, China for the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering\" title=\"Overlooking the main location in Changsha, China for the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1636\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>I am back in New York for the next month starting my <a title=\"MFA Art Practice\" href=\"http:\/\/artpractice.sva.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MFA Art Practice<\/a> program at the School of Visual Arts, so excuse my delays in posting new material. After shooting <a title=\"The New Yorker Han Han\/\u97e9\u5bd2 Profile: China\u2019s Bad Boy Blogger\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2011\/07\/02\/the-new-yorker-han-han-profile-chinas-bad-boy-blogger\/\">Han Han<\/a> for the New Yorker I was able to escape to Changsha to witness the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering. Over a hundred graffiti artists from all over China congregated in the city that once witnessed\u00a0Mao Zedong&#8217;s conversion to communism. Street art in China is still in a very nascent stage, so I was greatly impressed by the wide variety of styles on display smack in the middle of Changsha&#8217;s waterfront. Quite frankly I was a bit surprised the local powers that be even approved a graffiti event of this scale in the first place. The artwork ran for hundreds of meters, stretching out from either side of the Xiangjiang River No.1 Bridge &#8211; a major transportation artery in Hunan&#8217;s capital. The video below walks you through the core of the murals created during the Meeting of Styles. I met a ton of really interesting graffiti artists while in Changsha who I will be following up with individually across China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits001.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti artists participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Graffiti artists participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1634\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits002.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1641\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110522_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_horz_portraits003.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti artists participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Graffiti artists participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art001.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1637\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art003.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1637\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art004.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1637\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110523_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_art002.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"Fresh work from the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1637\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits003.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligntriplel size-full wp-image-1633\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits001.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligntriplec size-full wp-image-1631\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110521_meetingofstyles_graffiti_china_changsha_vert_portraits002.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" title=\"A graffiti artist participating in the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering in Changsha, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligntripler size-full wp-image-1632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26625926?portrait=0&amp;color=ff0000\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back in New York for the next month starting my MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts, so excuse my delays in posting new material. After shooting Han Han for the New Yorker I was able to escape to Changsha to witness the Meeting of Styles graffiti gathering. 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