Street Poster Art

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"Street Poster Art"

Street Art Formats

Types of Street Art Graffiti • Stencils • Sticker art Wheatpasting • Poster Art

Street Artists

List of Street Artists List of Graffiti Artists List of Stencil Artists List of Sticker Artists List of Wheatpaste Artists List of Poster Artists Graffiti artists Category

Graffiti Culture

Activism Culture Jamming Direct Action Graffiti Terminology Graffiti Uses Guerrilla art Hip hop culture Installation Art Murals Propaganda Screenprinting Spray paint art Stencil

Artist Idologies

Art Intervention Anarchy Anti-Consumerism Community ownership Contemporary Art Property is Theft! Punk ideology Reclaim the Streets Situationism Subversion Subvertising

Street Art Related

Built environment MTA Private Property Public Art Public Space Psychogeography Rapid transit Street Party Urban Planning Vandalism

Street art by country

Australia • Spain • Germany United States • Italy

A variety of street posters on an abandoned billboard in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California.

Street poster art is a kind of urban art that explores attributes (like languages and/or techniques) of the traditional poster art or even of the common poster format. It can be still understood as an art piece that is pasted on the streets. Sometimes not comprehended as a form of contemporary art, street posters culture are growing up fast and nowadays we can see works in places like Barcelona, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Madrid and New York.

Street posters pasted on a bridge's column in Nakameguro, Tokyo. Photo by Martine Cotton.

[edit] Proposals and influences

As occurs with other kind of artworks, proposals of a street poster art piece vary according the artist goals. A street poster can be just an artistic piece, explores the propaganda properties, be political or carry messages/images of protests.

[edit] Notable street poster artists around the world

• [1] (autruche / São Paulo, Brazil)
• 20mg (Knoxville / Los Angeles, USA)
• 86 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Asbestos
• Birita (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Poster Child (Toronto, Canada)
• Bl4ckh4m (Pittsburg,USA)
• Buffmonster (Los Angeles, USA)
• Culundria (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
• Enntia (UK)
• Faile (New York, USA)
• Fisko (Nuernberg, Germany)
• Flying Fortress (Germany)
• Mackplakt(Antwerp, Belgium)
• Mad One (Phoenix, USA)
• prvrt (New York, USA.)
• Roket (Almada, Portugal)
• Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles, USA)
• Skullphone (Los Angeles, USA)
• Swoon
• Trol (Almada, Portugal)
• silis (switzerland)

[edit] External links

• Godisart.com - a repository of info on street art and graffiti
• Absolut Propaganda
• Obey Giant
• Poster Child
• Street Art Workers
• Streetmemes.com
• Tokyo Street Art
• Urbanize.org
• Visual Resistance
• Wooster Collective
• Memo Pisa el Lodo
• Trade Street Art with other artists from around the world.

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