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.