Street art

People have their own different interpretations of the word “Art”. More interpretations most likely cause increasing disagreements. Art is a way of expressing your creative ability and imagination commonly through emotions by showing the audience rather than telling them. Art is also a universal language that is used through many platforms and one that is globally understood (citation). However, people will interpret the meaning of art differently to the way others do. The same applies to…

world of Street Art It's 11 o'clock on Gratz Street, North Philadelphia. A hooded figure darts across the street, and runs up to an abandoned row-home, pulling out a can of spray paint. He nervously looks both ways, eyes scanning the street corners, before spraying the paint across the barren concrete wall. His message: one of defiance, against the status quo, against everything he believes has held him back in life. Standing back, he enjoys a brief moment of satisfaction. He checks the streets…

the well renowned English street artist, released a documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop. This film features the story of Theirry Guetta, a French immigrant who has an obsession with capturing every event in his life that ultimately leads him to developing his identity as Mr. Brainwash. His original intent was to create a documentary about street art but we soon find that the documentary begins to focus on Guettas introduction and journey into the street art world. Ultimately we see…

even today, street art is often perceived as vandalism. This misunderstood art form is present in all of our daily lives, acting as an inspiration to countless aspiring artists and brightening up the dismal world we live in today, with ongoing wars and refugees fleeing to safety, in an attempt to escape their nightmare. It is a method of self-expression used by many people. Every individual has their hobbies and interests. To some it is street art. To those who object to street art, it should be…

opinions including racial slurs, and spread negative emotions. Also if a lot of the graffiti in an area is gang related or offensive, then that area is more likely to obtain a larger gang presence which would result in more crime and turf wars. Obscene street art also contributes to spreading an overall feeling of fear and unease among the law abiding citizens in that community. Additionally, the ‘broken windows theory’, which positions that “if a window in a building is broken and is left…

Graffiti is Art What do you consider art? Someone sitting in front of a canvas with a paint brush painting whatever they imagine. Why don’t you consider graffiti as art when it is the same thing, except that the streets are your canvas and a can of spray paint is your paint brush? Graffiti should definitely be art because there are graffiti museums that sell pieces of graffiti for substantial amounts of money. Graffiti artists put just as much time and effort as a regular artist, and it can be…

This media material is actually Graffiti Art that can be found on a building in Mayfair, London, on November 20, 2011, by a famous street artist known as Banksy, true identity yet still unknown. This graffiti piece displays a dark figure of a woman falling alongside a shopping cart with a shadows cast from them. The women appear to be in a fully cloth along with a set of heels and in a skirt, as with the shopping cart it appears to have objects of jewelry and wine/alcohol and other more luxury…

there should not be any problem with having nice paintings or drawing in the walls. I think its okay to have drawings in Los Angeles because a lot of people from all over the world go there and like to look around and explore How Los Angeles really is. Art is a really outstanding when you know that it is something that a artist drew out of there feelings or emotion or simply what they have been growing threw in their life. Yes, it would be much better if there was a place where artist can get…

In this essay, I will examine the role of contemporary art practice in presenting the world in an altered light so that we engage in the represented events and situations in more critical and perhaps experimental ways. In addressing this question, I shall concentrate on politically engaged artistic practice in the form of photography, street art, and installation art. It is the artistic techniques that these artists behold and present to us that makes us react and respond to them and what they…

Whitely states that the artist creating this type of art had to be confident and precise with the lines they were making in order for the art to last around fourteen thousand years. An example of this type of "graphic clarity" art would be similar to the bison painted in the Lascaux cave located in France. The paintings are detailed in a way they seem to teach a lesson, but archeologist do not know the exact story of why the artists illustrated art in this form or the reason why they were…