| Street art is a highly conceptual and highly political means of voicing opinions that are often not heard or given a means of speaking. Street artists create work that is highly conceptual, multimedia, multidisciplinary, and highly politicized.; Relationships between advertising and street art are multi layered, regarding media, aesthetic, and propaganda proliferation. Street artists have garnered attention from galleries and museums by working outside of those institutions while criticizing those institutions. Street artists are likely to produce work through commerce, for sale, or as design while questioning capitalism's effect on society.; These trends may seem contradictory, but street artists are a phenomenon that lends insight to the blurring of the boundaries of advertising and art, public and private space, capitalism, and governance. This discussion occurs visually and literally on the spaces of our cities. Street art is a means of democratic participation in public space. |
