{"id":101978,"date":"2019-06-18T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revolution.watch\/?p=101978"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T01:01:50","slug":"five-minutes-with-alec-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionwatch.com\/five-minutes-with-alec-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minutes with Alec Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"
Revolution USA spoke to graffiti artist and TAG Heuer brand ambassador Alec Monopoly at the opening of TAG Heuer\u2019s new boutique at Aventura Mall.<\/p>\n
When did you discover that you wanted to be an artist? What kind of art did you do back then? From where do you draw your inspiration as it relates to culture, current events or anything else? When you work, what do you prefer: silence or music? What was your first watch? <\/div><\/div><\/div> \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":101983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5,103,202],"tags":[1573,539,32],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>You know, I feel as if I was born an artist. My mother is an artist and growing up she taught me how to draw and paint. She was very supportive of me creating artwork.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I would do drawings. I was in art school. That was probably the only classes where I would concentrate when I was in high school and middle school. I was always drawn to Pop Art, the bright colors, Andy Warhol, Basquiat and Lichtenstein. I was attracted to this kind of art. Bright and happy.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n<\/strong>I think it was in high school where we did a study on a David sculpture. When I was done, I saw that it looked just like the original, like hyper realistic. I remember feeling, wow, like I had a superpower or something. [laughs]<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>From traveling, experiencing life and street art. I do a lot of graffiti. I\u2019m also inspired by the past, when reading about art history and reading about Picasso and Basquiat funneling it through my vision and pushing that forward.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I like to listen to music. It\u2019s a little give and take and it depends on which mood I\u2019m in. It\u2019s never the same music. Sometimes I listen to Bob Marley chill music and other times I listen to techno or hip hop as well. When I work really fast, I listen to minimal beats, techno \u2013 stuff like that.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n<\/strong>I do get stuck on pieces and I get frustrated. Then I put them in the closet and don\u2019t look at them for a couple of months. Just sleeping on it isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>My first dream watch was actually a TAG Heuer. I always wanted a TAG. It was a smaller watch and I sometimes like smaller dials today as well. Now I\u2019m wearing the latest Carrera I did with TAG Heuer with a self-portrait in a graffiti cartoonesque way with my graffiti tags and my memes. Both of my models have now sold out. We\u2019re offering the last 15 here tonight in Miami.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n<\/strong>I have to say American Muscle. I have a Bronco that was one of my first cars that is being rebuilt right now and I can\u2019t wait for it to get done.<\/p>\n