Some Street Artists travel from city to city to ply their art becoming quite celebrated in the process. Street Art became a popular art form during the s; although, it originated as a modern art form in the s. It is interesting to note that Graffiti has existed since ancient times.
While Street Art appears to have some rebellious undertones, it is not typically regarded as a form of Anti-Art even though it remains outside the context of fine art or conventional art. By presenting work in public settings, artists enjoy considerable exposure to all types of people.
Street artists employ various forms of Street Art. Traditionally, street artists used spray paint to create art such as murals on public walls. This anonymous British street artist, who always wears a mask, created the turning point in the street art history. Banksy is a graffiti artist, painter, activist, filmmaker who is a real game changer. This once seen chaotic act made it to museums. His work is now sold for millions of dollars.
Here are some of his work:. Nothing is nobler than the act of self-expression through any form. To create art work that can make people look, hold on and think to be altered for good.
Our urban experience in the street still has a lot to offer. Over the years, the people did not really need a canvas to express their ideas. The canvas has always been right there. Living for the art of storytelling in different ways, and always seeking to write inspiring stories about good things in the world.
The myriad approaches have come to be housed under the label of "Street Art" sometimes also referred to as "Urban Art" , which has expanded its purview beyond graffiti to include these other techniques and styles. The term "graffiti" comes from the Greek "graphein," meaning "to scratch, draw, or write," and thus a broad definition of the term includes all forms of inscriptions on walls. More specifically, however, the modern, or "hip-hop" graffiti, that has pervaded city spaces since the s and s involves the use of spray paint or paint markers.
Photographer and author Nicolas Ganz notes that graffiti and Street Art practices are characterized by differing "sociological elements," writing that graffiti writers continue to be "governed by the desire to spread one's tag and achieve fame" through both quality and quantity of pieces created, while street artists are governed by "fewer rules and [embrace] a much broader range of styles and techniques.
Stencils also known as stencil graffiti are usually prepared beforehand out of paper or cardboard and then brought to the site of the work's intended installation, attached to the wall with tape, and then spray painted over, resulting in the image or text being left behind once the stencil is removed.
Many street artists favor the use of stencils as opposed to freehand graffiti because they allow for an image or text to be installed very easily in a matter of seconds, minimizing the chance of run-ins with the authorities.
Stencils are also preferable as they are infinitely re-useable and repeatable. Sometimes artists use multiple layers of stencils on the same image to add colors, details, and the illusion of depth.
Brighton-based artist Hutch explains that he prefers to stencil because "it can produce a very clean and graphic style, which is what I like when creating realistic human figures. Also, the effect on the viewer is instant, you don't need to wait for it to sink in. One of the earliest known street artists to use stencils was John Fekner, who started using the technique in to stencil purely textual messages onto walls. Wheat paste also known as flour paste is a gel or liquid adhesive made from combining wheat flour or starch with water.
Many street artists use wheat paste to adhere paper posters to walls. Much like stencils, wheat paste posters are preferable for street artists as it allows them to do most of the preparation at home or in the studio, with only a few moments needed at the site of installation, pasting the poster to the desired surface.
This is crucial for artists installing works in unsanctioned locations, as it lowers the risk of apprehension and arrest. Some street artists create three-dimensional sculptural interventions, which can be installed surreptitiously in public spaces, usually under the cover of darkness.
Unsanctioned Street Art interventions usually aim to shock viewers by presenting a visually realistic, yet simultaneously unbelievable situation.
For instance, in his Third Man Series , artist Dan Witz installs gloves on sewer grates to give the impression that a person is inside the sewer attempting to escape. Works like these often cause passers-by to do a "double-take. Reverse graffiti also known as clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing, clean graffiti, green graffiti, or clean advertising is a method by which artists create images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface.
According to British reverse graffiti artist Moose, "Once you do this, you make people confront whether or not they like people cleaning walls or if they really have a problem with personal expression. There are street artists who experiment with other media, such as Invader Paris , who adheres ceramic tiles to city surfaces, recreating images from the popular Space Invaders video game of Invader says that tile is "a perfect material because it is permanent.
Even after years of being outside the colors don't fade. Many other artists use simple stickers, which they post on surfaces around the city.
Often, these stickers are printed with the artist's tag or a simple graphic. Others invite participation from the audience, like Ji Lee who pastes empty comic speech-bubbles onto advertisements, allowing passers-by to write in their own captions.
Others still use natural materials to beautify urban spaces. For instance, in , Shannon Spanhake planted flowers in various potholes of the streets in Tijuana, Mexico. She says of the project, "Adorning the streets of Tijuana are potholes, open wounds that mark the failure of man's Promethean Project to tame nature, and somehow surviving in the margins are abandoned buildings, entropic monuments celebrating a hyperrealistic vision of a modernist utopia linked to capitalist expansion gone awry.
The possibilities for Street Art media are endless. Street Art continues to be a popular category of art all over the world, with many of its practitioners rising to fame and mainstream success such as Bristol's Banksy, Paris' ZEVS, and L. Street artists who experience commercial success are often criticized by their peers for "selling out" and becoming part of the system that they had formerly rebelled against by creating illegal public works.
Communications professor Tracey Bowen sees the act of creating graffiti as both a "celebration of existence" and "a declaration of resistance. For both Bowen and Hvala these unique positive attributes of graffiti are heavily reliant on its location in urban public spaces. Art critic and curator Johannes Stahl argues that the public context is crucial for Street Art to be political, because "it happens in places that are accessible to all [and] it employs a means of expression that is not controlled by the government.
A tag on canvas will never hold the same power as the exact same tag on the street. This movement from the street to the gallery also indicates a growing acceptance of graffiti and Street Art within the mainstream art world and art history. Some apply the label "post-graffiti" to the work of street artists that also participate in the mainstream art world, although this is somewhat of a misnomer, as many such artists continue to execute illegal public interventions at the same time as they participate in sanctioned exhibitions in galleries and museums.
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