Open Directory - Arts: Visual Arts: Public Art: Street Art

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Sites included here will offer information on Street Art and can include individual artists, articles, forums, commissions and organizations, image galleries and other noncommercial sites. If the primary focus of the site is to sell work online, by mail, email, or telephone ordering please suggest, please suggest the site to the most appropriate category in Shopping/Visual_Arts. Sites must be available in English.

Street Art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature (as opposed to, for instance, government or community art initiatives). The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, though it is often used to distinguish modern public-space artwork from traditional graffiti and the overtones of gang territoriality and vandalism associated with it.

Whereas traditional graffiti artists have primarily used free-hand aerosol paints to produce their works, "street art" encompasses many other media and techniques such as wheatpasting, stickers, stencil graffiti, mosaic tiling, video projection and 3D sculpture. For these reasons street art is sometimes considered "post-graffiti". The term is also occasionally used to refer to guerrilla art. Street art can be found around the world and street artists often travel to other countries foreign to them so they can spread their designs. [From Wikipedia]

Guerrilla Art

Sites included here will offer information on Guerilla Art and can include individual artists, articles, forums, commissions and organizations, image galleries and other noncommercial sites. If the primary focus of the site is to sell work online, by mail, email, or telephone ordering please suggest, please suggest the site to the most appropriate category in Shopping/Visual_Arts. Sites must be available in English.

Guerrilla Art, a form of street art evolved from the graffiti art culture in the United States. A form of Public Art, it is not “moveable” but more “environmental” in that the surface used to create the art work is an integral part of the artwork. Street artists encompass many media and techniques such as wheatpasting, stickers, stencil graffiti and mosaic tiling. The most important development in the movement and the reason for its 'guerrilla' tag is the adoption of guerrilla marketing techniques over traditional artistic methods. Many guerrilla artists hijack major branding for their own publicity and identity, often at odds with the brand itself.