Change of plans: As many of you were interested in the topic of last week’s post, I will go on and write a little more about street art.
If you have a closer look at the pictures from last week, you can see that all of them were painted on huge walls. This is the case because the scene has clear rules. One of them is: The better the artist the bigger his/her canvas in the public. This shows that a clear hierarchy exists… But who decides? The judges are the viewers themselves – you, me, everybody! Social Media plays an important role here. If an artist gets reposted a lot and gets linked in man posts he/she rises in the “food chain”.
This does not mean that only well-known artists can paint in the public. Everybody can become a street artist but they must start with small scales and work themselves to the top. It is important to keep in mind that noone can just pick a wall and paint there. An artist must get the allowance from the owner of a building. If someone does it without permission, it is an illegal action.
Speaking of illegal: It is often the case that finished and approved works get vandalised by illegal painters or sprayers. Even though it does not look nice, the artists are aware of the fact that their works do not last forever. The exposure to the general public leads to such destructions and changings of the original piece.
Yesterday I revisited the area and found a fitting example for this case:
Bianca's creative corner 