“My works may not pay off, but they are directly related to art and politics, this is what I would like to draw the attention of society,” says one of the most famous street artists in the world, artist Shepard Fairey. This principle - the principle of the importance of personal expression and focusing public attention on any problem - is one of the key components of all contemporary art, and street art is no exception.
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Step 1
On the one hand, the art of street art, at its core, is designed to resist the aggressive urban environment, on the other hand, without the aggression of a modern city, street art itself would not have arisen.
Step 2
Street art grew out of street tags, which, in turn, in the late 60s of the last century in Philadelphia (USA) were transformed into graffiti. By the beginning of the 80s, when competition arose between graffiti artists, graffiti from poorly read font tags began to transform more and more into interesting artistic compositions and catchy slogans: "Boredom is counter-revolutionary", "Run, comrade, the old world is behind you", "Culture is life vice versa”or“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”.
Step 3
Now, in the era of continuous eclecticism and post-post-modernism, the boundaries of the concept of street art are blurred, like the boundaries of other forms of art.
Step 4
Street art is any creative action created in an urban environment, in the space of streets and squares. Street artists can be not only artists who directly transform static space, giving it new meaning and codes.
Step 5
Street artists are also street musicians, mimes, break dancers, flash mobers and actionists. That is, all those who go out into the street to create. And it doesn't matter whether a creative person is constantly engaged in this or does one, but important for himself and, as he believes, for those around the Action.
Step 6
Street art is an aggressive art that actively draws all participants in the city's life into dialogue. Even if, for some reason known to him alone, street art places exclusively "cute cats" in the urban environment, in any case he imposes them completely shamelessly, regardless of anyone's opinion.
Step 7
Anyone can do street art. If only there was a non-standard idea that I would like to tell the world, since street art can be expressed by any means, but must carry the concept. Street art is conceptual art.
Step 8
Street art artists choose their means of expression based on the concept. And these means of expression can be different: stickers, stickers, posters, paint cans, crayons, stencils, plastic, electrical tape, laser projections and LED installations - everything from which you can quickly create an artistic object and have time to get away with your feet. The fact is that in many countries of the world street art still continues to be considered vandalism, and not a transformation of a boring gray urban environment.
Step 9
However, when the authorities of some countries realized that the art of street art can bring profit to cities, as it attracts tourists who are ready to pay even for excursions to the addresses of the most popular compositions, they began to think about reconsidering their attitude towards this type of public artistic activity.
Step 10
At the same time, for the street artists themselves, the idea of getting money from creativity is considered almost seditious, since this subculture is extremely narrow. The news of the commercialized brother immediately spreads across the continents and the artist may be ostracized. It's another matter if a sponsor is found to create some labor-intensive work.
Step 11
All works of street artists in all countries of the world are created as an alternative to commercial art and commercial filling of urban spaces. Roughly speaking, as an alternative to outdoor advertising. At the same time, advertisers are increasingly beginning to use techniques developed by street artists, since they often work much better.
