Street Art

This article should be merged with Graffiti

Street Art or Post-Graffiti is a new form of graffiti art that has its biggest boom since the late 1990s. After Cost and Revs, who came from the 1980s graffiti movement, Shepard Fairey is with his "Obey the giant" campaign one of the biggest influences ever. He made something that seemed to be an advertising campaign, because of the graphic and imagery he used, but was a campaign for himself. Street Artists use media such as sticker, poster, stencil but also paint and put up installations in the urban space. What they all have in common is that the work is put up illegaly. The aims are various. Some follow the aim of a graffiti writer to get up with a name or, in Street Art more likely with an image, others have a political aim. Many just want their art to be seen by the public. It is a worldwide movement. Similar movments are cultural jamming and graffiti.

The term Post-Graffiti comes from the french artist stak, who came like many other activists, originally from the Graffiti movement.

In Berlin you will find an initiative with tons of painted signs, also for the term "STREETart". "Street art" shows a google.COM in the top ten 6 results with not related content. The term "streetart" takes also off the question, filenames with "-" "_" or spaces.

Street Art

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