Pop culture – Street Art: Murals

Street Art is an artistic movement that stems from the graffiti art scene of New York in the seventies and eighties of the 20th century. Artists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf in the USA or Blek Le Rat, Harald Naegeli and Hugo Kaagman in Europe were the forerunners of the explosion of street art that occurred after the year 2000. The media and the public called this movement Street Art, and the streets of London, Paris, New York, Madrid or Berlin received street interventions in the form of sculptures, stickers, painted fronts of the buildings or “decorated” mailboxes. Artists like Banksy, Shepard Fairey or Space Invader are top world street artists today, whereas in Croatia we have to mention the most important ones such as Slaven Kosanović LUNAR, Boris Bare, Marina Mesar OKO, Tea Jurišić, Chez186 & Sarme and Grupa ZID.Krešimir Golubić, publicist