Some of Medellin street art is distinct from what is created by the hip-hop , and rap movement, focusing on political messages and stories of struggle that speak directly to the viewer. we can find graffiti on the walls when we walk on the street in anyway

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Music and Urban art

Friday was a night of urban style at the Art, Beats + Lyrics tour's stop at St. Louis' Moto Museum. The event drew a crowd of more than 200 people checking out art, music, and dance inspired by past and present themes in urban culture. There were live performances from bands and DJs, artists from across the country had work on display, and break dancers from around the city laying it down on the dance floor.

URBAN ART IN AFRICA

Banksy has been globe trotting for years, you can find his graffiti all over the world, America, Europe, The Middle East, but it seems he’s even been working in Africa. The latest location to appear on the Banksy map, Mali, is further-flung than usual. Drawings and photos of the anonymous street artist’s work are revealed in the exhibition “Bristol Museum vs. Banksy,” and among them are a number of pictures of Banksy murals in the West African country. Images include two figures hunting a large animal, possibly a bison, with bow and arrow; a woman hanging laundry on a line while a zebra stands by; a child staring out at the viewer from inside a a small metal washing tub; and a young girl with a yellow bird.

URBAN ART IN AUSTRALIA

Urban art project is creating some thunder down under. The Australian art collective has just transformed an unsightly parking garage in Brisbane into “Landlines,” an artwork by Jennifer Marchant constructed of 549 aluminum panels.

The project began when hometown architects Nettleton Tribe, enlisted to add 13 floors of office space to the 30 year old, nine-story garage, brought in UAP and Marchant to create visual character at the street level. They delivered by wrapping the structure in 4-by-11 foot aluminum panels that naturally ventilate the sub-tropical garage, reducing the buildings carbon emissions to the tune of over $900,000 in savings for the client over the use of a mechanical ventilation system.

URBAN ART IN ASIA

Hip Hop Stützpunk has dome many good things for the people of Shanghai. They sponsor many side events and workshop programs to support real sustainability and have formed non-profit partnerships with two dance schools, several music clubs, a Shanghai graffiti school and an artist and magazine collective that sponsors Asia’s largest graffiti contest.

The locals are delighted with the new adornments on the walls of their once drab and uninteresting streets.

“I would say the young people really appreciate this new art form and even the older people in China are much more open than in our country,” Walta told the press.

URBAN ART IN EUROPE

Polo Jeans Co. is proud to present ART STARS, a showcase of work from 51 of Europe’s most recognized up and coming contemporary artists. Inspired by the iconic American Star Spangled Banner and synonymous with the Polo Jeans Co. brand, the artists will create 3D pieces on stars made from the finest American denim. These will be displayed in select Polo Jeans Co. stores in key cities across Europe, before coming together in a public exhibition in London in late 2010.”

Sounds very interesting and looks fantastic, even if the intention is to create a creative character for a relative new brand…

At the moment, some of the finished Art Stars are exhibited in one of Berlin’s biggest shopping centers, the KaDeWe as well as in the Blue Marlin in Roma and the Felloni Studio in Ferrara. Maybe I will visit the KaDeWe this week to take some shots.

URBAN ART IN CANADA

Graffiti Tags

Living in small-town Canada rarely affords citizens the opportunity to experience urban art. Unless, of course, they live in one of the many communities served by the Canadian Railroad. The railroad is accessible to 75% of the population of Canada and the United States, which means that the bulk of North Americans, both urban and rural, experience urban art in the form of train graffiti on almost a daily basis.

Most train graffiti in Canada takes the form of tags. Graffiti tags are the signatures of graffiti artists and artist collectives. These stylized signatures range from simple initials drawn with permanent markers to the elaborate spray-painted hip-hop tags.

The colorful hip-hop style of tagging originated in the New York City subway system, and can now be found on freight trains, trestles, tunnel walls and buildings all over the world.

URBAN ART IN USA

Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork,stencil graffiti, sticker art , and street poster art , video projection,art intervention , guerrilla art,flash mobbing and street installations . Typically, the term street art or the more specific post-graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.

URBAN ART IN USA

Although its modern incarnation originated in United States threee decades ago, graffiti art can be found in the urban areas of almost every country. By now, the drawings and messages sprayed on walls, murals, and other spaces have been widely covered by both citizen and traditional media. They are also slowly gaining recognition as a controversial art, along with the rise of other urban expressions like stencils, posters, stickers, and mixed techniques.

URBAN ART IN MEDELLIN

graffiti art can be found in the urban areas of almost every country. By now, the drawings and messages sprayed on walls, murals, and other spaces have been widely covered by both citizen and traditional media. They are also slowly gaining recognition as a controversial art, along with the rise of other urban expressions like stencils, posters, stickers, and mixed techniques. In public spaces, street art (or urban art) represents the voice of the community, marginal groups, and young people that strive to be heard, often defying the notion of private property. Medellin is not an exception for this.
Street art in Medellin needs to be reformed, because it has always been torn apart by terrorism, corruption, a faulty educational system, and overall party. With all of those issues, it is difficult to move forward in any direction.

Common graffiti is known for being a ‘code’: only members of the neighborhoods can understand the intricate traces and calligraphy, the “wild style”, or the code numbers used to represent names and places. However, along with these obscure messages, explicit messages can also be found on the streets, using clear and spaced letters, leaning towards protest. On his blog Globalizado [es], Peruvian blogger Juan Arellano shares photos of the graffiti he found in Pasto, Colombia.

URBAN ART

Urban art is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life. The term urban means "from the city". Sometimes Urban art is called "street art".
Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.