評論
打印
Street art
街頭藝術
Street art can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs, and even trash cans from Tokyo to Paris, from Moscow, to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, or stickers. Today the street art movement has become part of a global visual culture. Even art museums and galleries are collecting the works of street artists.
從東京到巴黎，從莫斯科到紐約，可以在建筑物、人行道、路標甚至垃圾桶上找到街道藝術。這種特殊的藝術可以采取繪畫、雕塑或貼紙的形式。今天，街頭藝術運動已經成為全球視覺文化的一部分，甚至藝術博物館和畫廊也在收集街頭藝術家的作品。
It is not easy to provide an exact history of the street art movement. Some experts say the movement began in New York City in the 1960s when young adults used paint in special cans to spray their "tag" on walls and train cars around the city as a way to identify themselves and their artwork. This colorful style of writing is also called graffiti. It is visually exciting and energetic. Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups.
很難給出街頭藝術運動的確切發展歷程。一些專家說，這一運動始于20世紀60年代的紐約市。當時，年輕人用特制罐子里的顏料將代表自己的“標記”噴在墻上和火車車廂上，以此來界定自己和他們的藝術品。這種多姿多彩的書寫風格也被稱為涂鴉，它在視覺上令人興奮，感到充滿活力。一些涂鴉畫是標記城市幫派或非法犯罪集團領地的標志。
However, graffiti soon developed as an artistic movement expressing the street culture of young people living in big cities, who rejected the accepted rules of culture and power and resorted to graffiti to represent social and political rebellion.
然而，涂鴉很快發展成為一種藝術運動，表達生活在大城市中年輕人的街頭文化，他們拒絕接受文化和權力規則，訴諸涂鴉來代表社會和政治叛亂。
During the 1980s, two New York painters, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, started creating their paintings on the streets. And they soon became very famous and began showing their work in art galleries and museums. This is when street art started to become part of the popular culture. Ever since then street art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world.
20世紀80年代，兩位紐約畫家，基思·哈林和讓·米歇爾·巴斯奎特開始在街頭創作他們的繪畫作品。不久，他們就成名了，開始在美術館和博物館展出他們的作品。此時，街頭藝術開始成為流行文化的一部分。從那以后，街頭藝術在世界各地以多種方式發展。
