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Street Art has been a major part of the Bay Area's culture since the early 1980s. As the years went on street art became more and more prevalent in the Bay Area. [1] While in some areas of San Francisco this art is done with the permission of the wall owners the majority is done illegally.
Street Artists selling their handmade work along east Market Street. The Street Artists Program of San Francisco is a municipal arts program in which independent street artists and craftspeople sell their art and craft items in designated public spaces in the city of San Francisco, California.
This movement is generally considered to have emerged in the early 1990s around a core group of artists who attended (or were associated with) San Francisco Art Institute. The term "Mission School", however, was not coined until 2002, in a San Francisco Bay Guardian article by Glen Helfand. [3]
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is an artists' collective in San Francisco's Mission District.CAMP is a community, a public space, and an organizing force that uses public art (murals, street art, performance art, dance, poster projects, literary events) as a vehicle for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice messaging and storytelling.
The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .
These posters supported a communist agenda that told people how to think, giving Novy the idea to create street art to encourage viewers to think differently. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] At the same time he found these communist posters, Novy also learned more about Chinese scrolls , specifically the hidden messages and iconography within the image of the koi ...
San Francisco's Mission District, center of the Mission School movement, has densely packed street art along Mission Street, and along both Clarion and Balmy Alleys. [74] Streets of Hayes Valley, SoMa, Bayview-Hunters Point and the Tenderloin have also become known for street art. [75]