Common characteristics of public art are public accessibility, public realm placement, community involvement, public process (including public funding); these works can be permanent or temporary. According to the curator and art/architecture historian, Mary Jane Jacob, public art brings art closer to life.

Street art, guerrilla art, and graffiti. Graffiti is characteristically made up of written words that are meant to represent a group or community in a covert way and in plain sight. The telltale sign of street art is that it usually includes images, illustrations, or symbols that are meant to convey a message.

Public art has diverse meanings but one relation always exists: public art occupies public space and therefore- public art is intended to be physically and freely accessible to the public. Public art is often site specific or audience specific and relates to the context in which it is sited.

Street art is usually painted with permission or commissioned. Graffiti (left) is word-based, whereas Street Art (right) is image-based. “Graffiti art”, if one had to, would be the name Stavsky gives to the two form’s artistic overlap. Graffiti Art is elaborate and figurative graffiti combined with images.

Well-worked graffiti art is typically creative, colorful and bold, and thus it changes the character of the particular area where it appears. In many cases, this change is positive, since the art turns drab and monotone buildings and bare walls into interesting and eye-catching exhibitions of the imagination.

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Top 10 Cities for Street Art Around the World

• New York City. From Basquiat to Poster Boy, New York has produced decades of influential graffiti artists.
• Buenos Aires. In BA, street artists can legally tag any building so long as its owners consent.
• Los Angeles.
• Melbourne.
• Sao Paolo.
• London.
• Santiago.
• Berlin.

So we have picked ten hotspots to go search for graffiti art.

• Stockholm Metro Station, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Bristol, UK.
• Berlin, Germany.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Paris, France.
• Los Angeles, USA.
• Bogota, Colombia.

Banksy

Because paint, spray paint, brushes, etc are not illegal – the crime often committed when deploying graffiti is vandalism. It is a form of theft. There is nothing inherently illegal about drawing a picture of a cat

Banksy is a famous – but anonymous – British graffiti artist. He keeps his identity a secret. He produces pieces of work which pop up in public places, such as on the walls of buildings. A lot of his art is done in a particular style which people can easily recognise.

Let’s not forget the slang term for graffiti artists: “tagger.” Taggers are people that enjoy spraypainting a certain design, name, or symbol on any suitable surface on many an occasion.

BANKSY

John Fekner

Darryl “Cornbread” McCray

1960s

The purpose of graffiti can be to tell a story; it can be to tell you about a specific moment in time where everything either went bad or good; it can be to tell you about people, politics, culture, art, places and society in general; it can be to express yourself anonymously, it can also be just another act of …

Beyond artistic talent, a graffiti artist, like all artists, must have a number of abilities and qualities to succeed in such a creative field, which include passion for art and for the graffiti art world specifically, the courage to take risks and grow in the field, an entrepreneurial attitude, focus, willingness to …

The link between hip hop and graffiti evolved as a competition, much like the dance moves of the hip hop culture. Graffiti began to show up on subways in New York and other cities as a form of expression of the culture who listened to rap music. Graffiti quickly spread and was picked up by others.