I assume I'm not the only one who went into this thread because it had the word 'argument' in it?

I think it comes from neo-post-modernism, with a bit of pre-expressionism in it as well. I've also heard people say that the impressionists, such as Monet, had a lot of influence who, as is well known, drew influence from the cave drawings of Australia.


*puffs on pipe*

The idea for stencills is ages old though. Sure, impressionists might have been influenced by aboriginal drawings, but people in Europe and elsewhere around the world were already using stenciling to decorate their houses and to put patterns onto fabric.

By modern, I'm assuming you mean spray-paint stenciling (graffiti etc.)? If that's the case then its largely influenced by gang-culture, spraying graffiti to mark territory, which then gradually turned into a more developed art-form, taking already established techniques like stenciliing, but modernising and speed them up by using spray cans.

They were? I mean, of course they were *puffs on pipe*


Now I'm off to give a lecture on the origins of etcho-sketch. It was inspired by Van Gogh donchaknow ;)