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All You Need to Know About the Street Art

Street art is an artistic expression with independent visual art created in public locations for public visibility. Take the quiz to test your knowledge about street art.
Sameer Shinde
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Street art is an artwork that is created on surfaces in public places like building exteriors, highway overpasses, and sidewalks.
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Street art is an independent visual art created in public locations. Street artists primarily use spray paint to produce their work.
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Sketching refers to a rough type of drawing that an artist might make in preparation for either a painting or a more formal drawing.
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Graffito is the singular form of Italian graffiti, meaning "little scratch".
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If a tag is used in street art, it is more like a signature at the bottom of the art.
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Kurar is a French street artist, Chazz Miller is an American street art muralist and Jeremy Novy is a California based street artist.
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Rei Blinky is considered the pioneer of the street art resurgence in the city.
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"Exit Through the Gift Shop" is a film directed by Banksy that was the biggest innovation in the art world.
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The ancient Romans carved graffiti on walls and monuments, examples of which also survive in Egypt.
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TAKI 183 was a graffiti tagger active during the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City.
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The Mild Mild West represents a fluffy teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police.
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Some of the earliest expressions of street art were on the sides of train cars and walls. This was the work of gangs in the 1920s and 1930s New York.
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