Street Art In America

Street art is an untraditional form of art that has recently risen in popularity since it is not like other art forms like painting or sculpture that is normally inside of a gallery setting. Being in a gallery has a different kind of tone while being in the galleries constraints, but outside in the streets, the constraints are taken off. The artist has the ability to do anything they want from political satire to a little monster trying to open a clearly closed door. Creating art for the untraditional allows people to explore who they are than who they were taught to be. The traditional street art is created on the streets for everyone to see and normally created by someone who does not want to be seen. They want their art to do all their talking …show more content…
A day in American history that might be ripped out of the history books so that it can be forgotten about, or kept in them so we do not end up with these same back choices later in the nation's future. A political unrest is happening to this country, and the street artist have already started creating art to fight back the newly elected fascist president, and it does not seem like they are going to stop anytime soon. A time like this called for street art more than ever because it allows a voice to the voiceless, which has happened in our country too many times to count. In the 1970’s and 80’s, it was felt by so many people in the subculture and outside of it because of the voice the formal voiceless people have gotten, which was recorded in Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon book titled “The History of American Graffiti”.Those two decades were the significant point in the history of street art, which allowed it to turn into what we know as street art today. It allows them to get their message out there instead of it being forgotten about or in their own …show more content…
The next boom did not start until the 1980’s which happened around the same time as the Graffiti Boom, which DONDI was associated with. Richard Hambleton, who is called the Godfather of street art, created one of the first ever street art pieces in the common era of street art. His pieces are called Image Mass Murder. These pieces of public art were created like a realistic crime scene after the police have come there to investigate what had happened. These works used volunteer “Homicide victims” to be chalked out on the ground or a wall, and Richard splashed red paint on top of the chalk outlines to simulate realistic crime