Street art in manchester

TaggingTagging is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted on a wall or other surface, often within public view. Tagging is known mostly from street artist writing their name showing their piece of work or even marking their territory.

Tagging can be used with different media but the most common ones are spray paints and markers.

In most countries marking or painting property without the property owner's permission is considered vandalism, which is a punishable crime therefore tagging is illegal and labelled graffiti.

Commissioned Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall. Mostly painted by oil painting. A lot of time and effort has been put into this work thats why it is described as street art.

Commissioned mural is only legal if you ask permission. It is strictly illegal if someone has no permission to start graffiting around the area.

Large format postersLarge format is larger than the medium format. Large format cameras use sheet film sized 4X5 or larger with the most common film sizes being 4X5 and 8X10. It takes a lot of time and effort into painting these sort of images on huge walls .These pictures are legal as the person who has produced it needed to ask permission. This sort of street art is mostly used for business promotion purposes.

MosaicA mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is often used in decorative art or as interior decoration. Mosaic has been around for many years. Space invader are surrounded around the world on little corners. Every tile mosaic space invaders created was done illegally, he never ask for permission

Installation Installation art is an artistic way of creating or expressing a 3D or 2D art. This sort of street art is often found in open spaces. This is classed as street art and its legal as it is very time consuming to put it all together.

PoliticalPolitical street art is usually based on political problems with the government or society. The example of Obama has been spray painted onto a wall in a propaganda manner. The Trump make America hate again street art is a illegal sticker stating as soon as Trump becomes president everyone in America will be full of hatred. Political street art is sometimes offensive to people.

StickersSticker art is one of the easiest street art to do illegally and legally. Sticker art is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed anywhere and everywhere.

Wheat paste postersWheatpaste is a gel or liquid adhesive made from wheat flour or starch and water.crafts such as book binding ,collage, papier-mâché, and adhering paper posters and notices to walls. They’re similar to stickers and they can be removed easily. Some posters can have disturbing messages . Some posters around manchester have been paid for to be put on there.