Description of techniques

Urban art has a very long multiple and complex history. This is explained in particular by the non-differentiation of the practices composing the urban arts, grouped under the term street art. If the graffiti has always blended with humanity, the appropriation by the street artist of a public place with an aesthetic vocation "was born from the conjunction of aesthetic movements and a socio-cultural and economic context unique to 1970s New York».

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The first tags, signed Cornbread and Cool Earl, appeared in Philadelphia at the end of the 1960s. “It was also at this time that in several countries on both sides of the Atlantic, due to the availability of aerosol paints. “Enamelled” (originally intended for painting cars), part of the graffiti has gained an aesthetic vocation

Street art artists have in common an activity (legal or not) of urban intervention. The main distinction with the art of graffiti, next to hip hop in the United States, is that street artists do not systematically use the letter (as in the early days of graffiti art, the writing American) and the aerosol tool, dear to graffiti artists. Most artists want above all to express themselves and that their works be seen by the crowd of public space users who end up memorizing their visual signatures, allowing them to access a form of individual celebrity to which they aspire. more often.

Tools and techniques: Street art often combines different techniques: graffiti uses the spray can, the stencil usually requires the use of paints, most often aerosol. the poster can be the backing of stencils.

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