Urban Art

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Urban art (from Latin urbanus, itself from urbs (“city”)) is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done byartists who live in or have a passion for city life. In that way urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arisingin urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban live style.
Because the urban arts are characterized by existing in the public space,they are often viewed as vandalism and destruction of private property. Even though sometimes this form of art leads to vandalism the creators do not see themselvesas vandals.
Although urban art started at the neighbourhood level, where a lot of people of different cultures live together, it is an international art form withan unlimited number of uses nowadays. A lot urban artists are travelling from city to city and have social contacts all over the world.
The notion of 'Urban Art'developed from street art which is primarily concerned with graffiti culture. Urban art represents a broader cross section of artists that as well as coveringtraditional street artists working in formal gallery spaces also covers artists using more traditional media but with a subject matter that deals with contemporaryurban culture and political issues. The most noted gallery in the UK that deals with Urban art is Lazarides Gallery. In Paris, Le Mur is a public museum of urbanart.


Notable Urban Artists

Shepard Fairey
Above
Akay
Jef Aerosol
Banksy[1]
Adam Neate[2]
Invader
L'Atlas
Mark Jenkins
Dubelyoo
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada