STREET ART Art or Vandalism?
The History of American Graffiti: From Subway to Gallery
IMAGES OF STREET ART: TYPES THAT (PROBABLY) WON’T GET YOU ARRESTED
I Graffiti
TAG Lines; an artist’s signature; simplest and most prevalent type of graffiti.
Tag
THROW-UP Easy and quick design, usually an outline and filled color like bubble letters. Many artists will have a Tag and a Throw-up in order to have a recognizable logo; sometimes these are done quickly and then the artist leaves before noticed (or getting caught.)
Throw-Up
TAG AND THROW-UP
An Example of Tag and Throw-Up "Distillery ( )" by phogel from Germany - distilleryUploaded by Vux. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - wer/File:Distillery_( ).jpg
PIECE Short for masterpiece; a complex painting using many colors, 3D effects, lines, arrows; very labor intensive; takes a long time to do.
Piece
WILDSTYLE Letters and numbers interlocking; very stylized and complicated, almost impossible to read for people who are unfamiliar with it; often 3D elements
WILDSTYLE
Wildstyle in Los Angeles by RIMELos Angeles "Rime msk graffiti lariver-mod" by - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - mod.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Rime_msk_graffiti_lariver-mod.jpg
Wildstyle in San Francisco by APEXSan Francisco San francisco graffiti01" by Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - francisco_graffiti01.jpg
II STENCIL Designs are cut out of a medium such as paper and then the design or image is transferred to a surface using spray paint or rolled paint; stencils are easily duplicated
Stencil
III MURAL A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.
Mural
MURAL
Mural
IV PASTE UP A drawing, stencil, etc., on paper fixed to a wall or other surface using an adhesive mixture such as wheatpaste or wallpaper paste.
PASTE UP
Sticker
PASTE UP
Sticker
V OTHER TYPES Yarn Bombing Reverse Graffiti Legal Walls
YARN BOMBING
Reverse Graffiti
LEGAL WALL Sometimes called, “Permission Walls,” give artists a space to paint and is a way of controlling unwanted graffiti. They help get graffiti lovers off the private properties of fences, walls, etc, making it legal to paint here.
VI 3D STREET ART Street Art (Pavement Art, Street Art, and Sidewalk Art) Creating artistic designs on streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials such as chalk.
3D
3D Street Art Must Be Viewed from the Correct Angle View From Correct AngleView from Wrong Angle Lego Army, Chalk Festival Sarasota 2011, Leon Keer, Street Artist
Examples of 3D Street Art How is it done?
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