Street art is contemporary art made as outdoor paintings, drawings or three-dimensional works on walls, sidewalks or street surfaces in the public thoroughfares of urban environments. According to the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus such works are sometimes intended to draw attention to urban issues. The thesaurus files street art under urban art within its art genres and records street works as a variant name. In this atlas the form covers stencils, murals and other works made for city walls and streets, whether or not the maker is named.
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Source Flower Thrower (Wikipedia)
Practitioners
Source Dmitri Vrubel (Wikipedia)
Source Mear One (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form
Source Art Buff (Wikipedia)
Source Flower Thrower (Wikipedia)
Source Girl with Balloon (Wikipedia)
Source Kissing Coppers (Wikipedia)
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1. Getty Research Institute, Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus record for street art
Getty Research Institute, Art and Architecture ThesaurusAAT record, scope note
Contemporary outdoor paintings, drawings, or three-dimensional works on walls, sidewalks, or street surfaces
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Contemporary outdoor paintings, drawings, or three-dimensional works on walls, sidewalks, or street surfaces in public thoroughfares of urban environments, sometimes intended to draw attention to urban issues.
View the Source Mear One (Wikipedia)
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known for his often-political and sometimes conspiracy theory-inspired street graffiti art
Dmitri Vrubel (Wikipedia)
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Vrubel's most famous work is the graffiti piece, painted on the Berlin Wall
Flower Thrower (Wikipedia)
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stencil mural in Beit Sahour in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy
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stencil mural in Beit Sahour in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy
View the SourceKissing Coppers (Wikipedia)
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Kissing Coppers is a Banksy stencil that pictures two British policemen kissing.
Girl with Balloon (Wikipedia)
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Girl with Balloon (also, Balloon Girl or Girl and Balloon) is a series of stencil murals around London by the graffiti artist Banksy, started in 2002.
Art Buff (Wikipedia)
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Art Buff is a graffiti artwork by Banksy which was created in Folkestone in 2014, Banksy announcing it as "part of the Folkestone triennial.
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