Street art

STREET ART Street art is a unique form of modern artistic expression. It has become a part of the urban environment, growing and changing with the city and the people that live there. Street art can comment on a social issue, poke fun at some aspect of society, or simply beautify a run-down area of the city. Even though the modern style of street art and graffiti was developed and perfected in the 1970s, elements of graffiti can be traced all the way back to the early 19th century. Today, street…

Graffiti is Art Why does everyone hate graffiti? The city of Seattle is making a position statement on whether graffiti is art or vandalism. The mayor has invited the public to join in the debate before they make the statement. My opinion is that Graffiti is street art not vandalism because it takes a lot of skill, it's colorful and uplifting and it can lead to other careers and job opportunities for young people. However people who disagree with me would say graffiti is vandalism, because it…

In the essay “The Multifaceted Nature of Street Art” student author Theresa George utilizes approximately seven sources to describe her beliefs about graffiti. George associates first with author Lea Vergine, as George illustrates their shared beliefs about graffiti. George discusses the various terms used by society for graffiti, such as tagging, graffiti, writing, along with Vergine’s personal belief that is “the painting of desire or wild communication” (Silverman). George points to the…

professor herself, Doreen Lee, in her research paper, “Anybody Can Do It: Aesthetic Empowerment, Urban Citizenship, and the Naturalization of Indonesian Graffiti and Street Art”, exposes the supremacy of street art and graffiti to the political movement in Indonesia. Lee’s purpose is to depict the recent spread and creation of the street art through media during the post-New Order Indonesia. She has established a very professional tone in order to appeal and provoke the thoughts of her arguments…

are buildings, people, cars, and all of the other obvious answers. If you look closely, there is art everywhere you look, although to most people, “art” wouldn’t be the correct term to describe what they are seeing. What people see is graffiti and street art, and while most of our society would label it as vandalism and destructive. Being a graffiti artist myself, I believe that graffiti and street art as a whole gets an undeservingly bad reputation. This is because throughout our history there…

The Street Art Movement: Facilitating Humility Since 1970 The exuberant, colorful fruit stands and local, Ecuadorian restaurants lining the streets of Central Quito, Ecuador easily deceive ignorant passersby and tourists. After turning onto Garcia Moreno Street, however, these individuals become struck by the outrageously vivid scene depicted on the side of a building. Walking from the left side of the building to the right, a story unfolds. A disfigured boy looking only 15 years old stares in…

having to do so vocally. Banksy is a person who has a strong opinion on what the government is doing to the citizens of his country. Banksy has such a way with his art, which allows viewers to be so inclined on the topic that he brought to their presence they have no choice but to pay attention to what is being presented to them. His art exposes how the government and society have wrongly done the people in that area. Then on the other hand there are artists like Swoon who bring beauty to the…

Street art has its origins in paintings on cave walls and gang graffiti, but it first became known to the general public in the late 1970s when people began to illegally decorate, or vandalize, subway cars in major cities. Artists used spray cans in a variety of colors to decorate public property; their art was quite controversial because it was often illegal and qualified as vandalism. However, the risk of being caught and arrested did not deter brave souls from practicing street art. One…

of the street art, like the work of Banksy, should and legally can be protected from distraction and alteration. B. The definitions of the critical terms: 1. What is graffiti? 2. What is street art? 3. Define guerrilla art (which is a hybrid of street art and graffiti?) C. My example is Banksy. Why is Banksy’s art is being representative of this kind of art? 1. Where do artworks, like Banksy’s, belong? Are they in the grey area, which is the type of art…

Street Art Versus Museums: The Role of Context in Exhibition The concept of integrating urban life and art has come to play a central role in a movement of artists for whom the city walls act as the canvas to their limitless imaginations. These artists practice street art - the creation of unsanctioned visual art in a public space outside the context of traditional art venues. Since the birth of this art form during the late 1960s in New York, these artists have often been in dissonance with…