Street art in the streets of our cities
Painter street art should feel the line between bullying and self-expression, art and vandalism, as well as to understand what could lead to penetration of his works at the exhibition gallery or on the pages of magazines, and that - to a fine or prison sentence. Street art is often disagrees with the way of life, racial and class inequality, rising unemployment. Street art can carry a political message, instantly responding to the current events of the country and the world. The most famous street artist Banksy modernity says that street art - one of the few means of expression that you can afford, even if you do not have anything.
Street art for the gray and monotonous urban fringe becomes a real salvation. Abandoned building, faceless gray fences, destroyed buildings - suitable facilities for the paintings in the style of street art. Colorful fantasy graffiti, bright colors, a positive story should improve mood thousands of spectators passing by.
Street art - multi-genre art, it determines the design of modern life, which is in most cases not made by professionals and anonymous self-taught. Artists street art raid facilities of urban space at night and create their works under the cover of darkness, they determine whether their protest scene mode or entertainment.
The history of street art began with the fact that back in the 60s of the last century on the streets of Philadelphia buildings began to appear intricate inscription, later known as "tags". Tags do not have nothing to do with art, they had to write as much as possible and in the most unusual places. By the end of the decade tags have appeared in New York, they filled every possible surface of the walls of buildings, subway cars, billboards. Street gangs using tags labeled with their territory of influence.
In 1973, there was the most common direction of street art - graffiti, providing more opportunities to express themselves, rather than tags. The scale of street art through graffiti greatly increased, writers artistic sketches adorn the walls and all kinds of slogans, but soon their activities were equated to vandalism and is prohibited. Street art at some time left the street and was on the verge of extinction.
In the 1990s in the street art became more symbols, images, paintings. At the same time he gained fame Shepard Fairey, who did not paint and graffiti tags, and putting up posters with the image of the iconic fighter of the 1970s - Andre the Giant with the signature «Obey» - «Obey." By 2000, Shepard was plastered over a million portraits of Andre all over the world, for that Fairey was recognized as the most active artists of street art around the world.
In France in the 1990s, the most prominent representative of street art has become an artist Space Invander (Invader). He created a mosaic composition in the form of figures of aliens from Space Invaders arcade video games and posted them in public places all over the world.
At the same time, his stencils, stencil, or, in street art Banksy became famous, he made millions on the street art. The cost of the works of Banksy increased from 50-150 pounds to 80 000-150 000 pounds for ten years. His reproductions of the originals sold at exhibitions in galleries all over the world. In 2009, the year of Banksy with Steve Lazarides opened firm, engaged in examining the authenticity of the works of the English stars of street art.
Street art combines different techniques, flow, forms, it is difficult to classify or tied to any previous tradition. Despite the differences of social, political and artistic views, all the artists of street art combined city walls and sidewalks as objects of future work, gratuitous creativity and refusal to cooperate with law enforcement. Street art, no matter what genre chose stritrayter, trying to undermine the existing order and social space. No wonder the famous documentary about street art, shot by George. Rice in 2007, called "The Bomb!".
