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Article: Spray-paint artists have exploded onto the scene _ but is it art?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 8, 2003
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Byline: Gaile Robinson
Ruben Sadot was killed by a driver one night in 1989 as he walked along a Mexico City freeway. His friends suspect it was a suicide rather than an accident. The man who had started an art movement was gone just as his creation was beginning to flourish.
Sadot was a working artist and poet when, in the early '80s, he began using spray paint instead of the more traditional oil or acrylic. He would spray a few colors on paper, swirl the hues together and then look for an image to appear in the mist. He accentuated what he saw by incising the paint with a sharp object, revealing the white board underneath. He often saw familiar faces ...