“Although my work doesn’t pay off, but it has a direct bearing on art and politics, this is what I would like to draw the attention of society to, ” says Shepard Fairy, one of the most famous street artists in the world. This principle - the principle of the importance of personal expression and sharpening the attention of society on any problem - is one of the key components of all modern art, and street art is no exception.
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On the one hand, the art of street art, in its essence, is designed to withstand an aggressive urban environment, on the other hand, without the aggression of a modern city, street art itself would not have arisen.
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Street art grew out of street tags, which, in turn, in the late 60s of the last century in Philadelphia (USA) transformed into graffiti. By the beginning of the 80s, when there was competition between graffiti artists, graffiti from poorly read font tags increasingly began to turn 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! ".
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Now, in an era of continuous eclecticism and post-post-modernism, the boundaries of the concept of street art are blurred, as are the borders of other forms of art.
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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 a new meaning and codes.
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Street artists include street musicians, mimes, breakdance dancers, flash mobers and actionists. That is, all those who go out to create. And it doesn’t matter if the creative person does this constantly or does one thing that is important for himself and, as he believes, for those around him.
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Street art is an aggressive art that actively draws all participants in the life of the city into dialogue. Even if, for some reason that he knows, a street arter places exclusively “cute cats” in an urban environment, in any case, he imposes them completely shamelessly, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.
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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 it must carry a concept. Street art is a conceptual art.
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Street art artists choose the means of expression based on the concept. And these means of expression can be different: stickers, stickers, posters, spray cans, crayons, stencils, plastic, electrical tape, laser projections and LED installations - all of which you can quickly create an art object and have time to carry out your legs. The fact is that in many countries of the world, street art still continues to be considered vandalism, and not a transformation of the boring gray urban environment.
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However, when the authorities of some countries realized that street art can bring profit to cities, because it attracts tourists who are willing to pay even for excursions to the addresses of the most popular compositions, they began to think about revising their attitude to this type of public art activity.
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At the same time, for street arters themselves, the idea of receiving money from creativity is considered almost seditious, since this subculture is extremely narrow. The news of a commercialized fellow immediately flies around the continents and the artist can be ostracized. Another thing is if there is a sponsor to create any laborious work.
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All the work of street art in all countries of the world is created as an alternative to commercial art and commercial filling of the urban space. Roughly speaking, as an alternative to outdoor advertising. At the same time, advertisers are increasingly starting to use the techniques developed by street arters, since they often work much better.
