Street Art
Street art is a style created for city walls, subway trains and other public spaces. Sometimes it is commissioned, yet most often it is an individual statement of defiant free expression. Although mostly an urban style, street art can be found all over the world, including JRâs pasted portraits on the separation wall in Palestine, Invaderâs playful ceramic tile mosaics in Paris and the provocative stencil and spray-paint works by Banksy in London.
The Philadelphia-based Cornbread â aka Darryl McCray â is considered the first modern graffiti artist. He began tagging his name around the city in the 1960s. Graffiti art later flourished in New York City in the 1970s. There, young artists used spray paint and markers to create tags and large-scale graphic works, with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring both developing their distinctive styles through the graffiti scene, which would evolve into street art. Artists such as Tracy 168 and Lady Pink pioneered the Wild Style of complex graffiti writing in the 1980s, pushing the movement forward.
Because of its unsanctioned, improvisational and frequently covert nature, street art involves a range of techniques and aesthetics. Some street artists use quick and effective stenciling, whereas others wheat-paste posters, commandeer video projectors or freehand draw elaborate illustrations and murals. Shepard Fairey made his mark with street art stickers before designing the iconic âHopeâ poster for Barack Obamaâs 2008 presidential campaign.
While the origins of street art are rooted in a strictly noncommercial creative act that confronted political issues, sexuality and more for a general audience of passersby, the art form has moved inside the galleries over the years. Today, just as Basquiat and Haring took their works from Manhattanâs Lower East Side alleyways into Soho galleries, artists including KAWS, Barry McGee and Osgemeos are in demand with collectors of fine art.
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1980s Street Art
Mixed Media
2010s Street Art
Screen
Early 2000s Street Art
Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Screen, Stencil
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Oil
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Latex, Spray Paint, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Paper, Mixed Media, Screen
1990s Street Art
Offset
2010s Street Art
Screen, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
2010s Street Art
Enamel
2010s Street Art
Pigment
Early 2000s Street Art
Screen
2010s Street Art
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Acrylic, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
2010s Street Art
Plexiglass, Mixed Media
2010s Street Art
Paper, Screen, Watercolor
2010s Street Art
Screen
2010s Street Art
Resin, Vinyl
2010s Street Art
Spray Paint, Latex
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Screen, Wood Panel
2010s Street Art
Paper, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Paper, Screen
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Resin, Vinyl
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Inkjet
2010s Street Art
Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Street Art
Paper, Screen
2010s Street Art
Screen
2010s Street Art
Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Stencil
2010s Street Art
Resin
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Latex, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Gold, Gold Leaf
2010s Street Art
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Latex, Spray Paint, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Paper, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Street Art
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 2000s Street Art
Paper, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Paper
2010s Street Art
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
2010s Street Art
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