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Urban art combines street art, guerrilla art, and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or present urban lifestyle. Because the urban arts are characterized by existing in the public space, they are often viewed as vandalism and destruction of private property.
The street is not a blank canvas for the street artist. It has a character, a use, a history, a texture, a shape. Street art, as well as broader urban art, transforms the street or opens the dialogue. Justin Armstrong states graffiti is identified as an aesthetic occupation of spaces, whereas urban street art repurposes them. [45]
Taking scrap metal from urban areas, TEJN welds and shapes the iron into figurative sculptures [7] which he "returns to the street" as site-specific art [8] [9] secured with chain or an old bike lock. [10] The genre was introduced when he started placing welded iron sculptures, chained and locked, throughout Copenhagen and Berlin. [11]
Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil Black Rectangle Natural Light, Whitney Museum 2013 The term "site-specific art" was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin [7] [8] but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites. [9]
In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even ...
Street installations are a form of street art and installation art. While conventional street art is done on walls and surfaces street installations use three-dimensional objects set in an urban environment. Like graffiti, it is generally non-permission based and the installation is effectively abandoned by the artist upon completion. Street ...
The Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in 2009, looking eastward along Lake Avenue near the City Hall Annex. In 1987, Wenner and Manfred Stader introduced street painting to Old Mission Santa Barbara, California. One of the largest events in the United States is the Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival, held in Lake Worth Beach, Florida ...
See No Evil 2011, was a week-long graffiti art event, [4] that claimed to be the largest street art event of its kind in the UK, reaffirmed Bristol's high position in the UK's urban art movement, [5] and supports the claim, that Bristol may be the current international center of this urban art movement. [6]