I didn’t know what this theme was about when I first read it, but it seemed quite interesting just because the fact of thinking in art embodied right on the streets. Sidewalk art, also known as street painting is the act of creating pictures on public places such as sidewalks, streets and also town squares. This kind of art is new to most of the countries, but it has been an old tradition in Europe, and it was originated in Italy during the 16th century
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It’s important to mention how these sidewalk artists started in the Italy; they were called “Madonnari” because of their practice painting images of Madonna. They were vagabond but very creative artists who lived day by day with the coins they earned with their street art. Often they traveled around near towns to join festivities and paint mostly religious pictures in public places using chalk, brick, charcoal or any material they could find.
These artists were taken seriously until the first International Street Painting Competition was created in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy in 1972. The festival resulted successful and got national recognition as an art form.
Nowadays this kind of art is very tourist mostly in Italy, where it began to spring up, but also in the whole Europe and recently in America.
Bibliography
La Femme Pastel. 2009. August 2011 <http://www.lafemmepastel.com/about/history-of-street-painting>.
Via Colori. 2008. August 2011 <http://www.viacolori.com/history.asp>.
Hi there!
ResponderEliminarWell, what I want to tell you is that I find kind of interesting your topic, and I like it! I am learning that in my art in focus class! So I know relevant things about this! Do you know that if you are in the street people get confuse, because they don´t identify if is real or not. Also artist have to be very careful about the different points of view to make that illusion of 3D.
Continue doing well in your blog!
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