The term includes any art developed in public places (generally in the street), and mainly done in an illegal way. The term refers to “graffiti” and some other artistic expression forms in the street.
includes any art developed in public places (generally in the street), and mainly done in an illegal way. The term refers to “graffiti” and some other artistic expression forms in the street.
Important cities of street art are London, Barcelona, Berlin, São Paulo and Toronto.
The motivations and objectives of street artists are as varied as the artists themselves. Street art pretends to surprise the spectators by integrating its elements in quite busy public places. It usually has a powerful message that criticizes the society with irony and invites to social fight, political criticism or, simply, to reflection.
Street art can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations.
Traditional graffiti is made by free-hand aerosol paints. But there are many other ways to do it.
Mosaic tiling: it’s an art that is based on an assembly of small pieces of coloured glass, stone, or other materials. This art is used to create pictures or images.
Murals: A piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling, or another surface. It’s a very large image, such as a painted photograph.
Stencil art: is made with stencils, shapes that are usually made of paper or cardboard; you draw the image and then you cut it out. After that you use spray paint or roll-on paint for create the drawing that you want on the surface.
Sticker art: an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. This are consideredpostmodern art.
The stickers usually show opinions.
Street installation: it’s a ‘street art’ movement. We can find them in conventional places, and including 3-D objects in urban environments.
Wheatpaste: is an adhesive liquid
made from vegetable starch and water, and it’s used to stick paper posters to walls and other surfaces.
Artwork painted on a small portion of plywood or similar inexpensive material and attached to street sign posts with bolts. Often the bolts are bent at the back to prevent removal.
Yarn bombing: it’s a type of street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or croched cloth. This pieces of cloth are put over other objects so as to decorate them.
LED Art: It’s an art form based on light-emitting diodes. You can purchase them in a cheap way.
Al these are the most outstanding techniques which are considered STREET ART. Any technique can be more or less complicated but what all of them have in common is that they are developed in public places and mostly done in an illegal way.