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Street art influence in politics refers to the intersection of public visual expressions and political discourse.Street art, including graffiti, murals, stencil art, and other forms of unsanctioned public art, has been an instrumental tool in political expression and activism, embodying resistance, social commentary, and a challenge to power structures worldwide.
Protest art helps arouse base emotions in their audiences, and in return may increase the climate of tension and create new opportunities to dissent. Since art, unlike other forms of dissent, takes few financial resources, less financially able groups and parties can rely more on performance art and street art as an affordable tactic. [1]
Yav Art Group is a Russian street art collective known for its works on the topics of politics, censorship, and social injustice. The group has been active in Saint Petersburg since 2014. [1] The group's members are known for their actions in the genre of street art and installations. The frontwoman of the group is the artist and activist ...
Banksy, active since the 1990s, is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director whose real identity is unknown. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.
Tangerine, a 22-year-old student artist, was the first Hong Kong artist using graffiti art to promote the awareness of Ai Weiwei among the island's population, by spray-painting Ai's image, with the slogan: "Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei", onto street pavement and building wall using a stencil, resulting in Hong Kong police serious crime squad conducting a criminal damage investigation against her ...
The artwork was unveiled in May 2016. [8] Make Everything Great Again appeared on the wall after Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump exchanged statements of mutual admiration, with the President of Russia describing Donald Trump as "a very colorful person, talented without any doubt," [1] [9] [10] with Donald Trump replying that it was "a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly ...
Better Out Than In was a residency undertaken by the pseudonymous graffiti artist and political activist Banksy in New York City during October 2013. Banksy unveiled at least one work of art daily, documenting it on both a dedicated website and an Instagram account.
Sampsa's work has been published in a scholarly work, Le street art au tournant by Prof. Christophe Genin, which argues that street art is now "at a crossroads between illegality and the collective imagination." [31] Sampsa's work has become associated with political causes not directly affiliated with the artist.