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Within Vinony's link graph, street art is referenced by 1,443 other articles, and connects out to visual arts, The New York Times and Rococo.
It sits within the topics Culture jamming techniques, Interlanguage link template existing link and Public art.
Its subject is documented across 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Years active
- 1980s–present
- Major figures
- Banksy John Fekner Keith Haring
- Influences
- Graffiti
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- art movement
- Subclass of
- urban art
- Image
- Showers of Hope.jpg
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- social media followers
- 113776
- practiced by
- street artist
- Commons category
- Street art
- topic's main category
- Category:Street art
- Commons gallery
- Street art
- hashtag
- streetart
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Encyclopedic overview
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.
Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graffiti into a more commercial form of art, as one of the main differences now lies with the messaging. Street art is often meant to provoke thought rather than rejection among the general audience through making its purpose more evident than that of graffiti. The issue of permission has also come to the heart of street art, as graffiti is usually done illegally, whereas street art can nowadays be the product of an agreement or even sometimes a commission. However, it remains different from traditional art exposed in public spaces by its explicit use of said space in the conception phase.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “street art” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.