A Guide to Manchester

Commissioned Mural

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A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.Commissioned mural is described as street art because a lot of effort and time has been put into this work and it’s not classed as graffiti because graffiti wouldn't take as much time as street art.Commissioned mural is legal but it's only legal if you have permission. It is strictly illegal if someone has no permission and starts grafting around the street

Political

This is a political poster as it shows a police are seen as puppets because they’re being told what to do in other words they are controlled. This is a poster therefore it is illegal and it is classed as graffiti rather than street art because if for example a government sees this the artists will be fined as they don’t have permission.

Large Format Picture

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Large 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". These pictures are legal as the person who has produced it need permission, it needs time and effort into making/ putting the work up in the walls. This is described as street art as it takes time and it’s mainly done to promote a business.

Sticker

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Sticker art is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. In those stickers it can promote anything for example it may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issues, it may also be a simple sticker that someone wants to put on a wall. Sticker art is a popular piece of method to show someone's work. Its quick and

affordable. However, it is illegal as it not done by asking permissions. This sticker was found near the Hilton Street.

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Mosaic work is produced by arranging little bits of material for example invaders work he uses tiles and here is an example of invaders work in Manchester. All of the works that invaders produce are illegal, as he never does it with permission. This work of Invader was found on Catlow lane. Some of the Mosaic can be legal.

Wheat paste Poster

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These posters are similar to stickers as they are both easy to apply and we can remove it easily. Some posters are illegal as they might have some strong message that might disturb people's attention however, there are some posters found around Manchester which are paid to be there and some are to tribute people for example this one above was to tribute David Bowie. These posters are made by wheat paste so therefore they will eventually be removed.

Installations

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Installations art is an artistic way of producing / expressing a 2D or 3D works that often are designed to add some art in an open space. This is classed as street art and its legal as time wise it will take ages to put the work together.

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A tag is the most basic writing of an artist's name; it is simply a handstyle. A graffiti writer's tag is his or her personalized signature. It is illegal as people aren't allowed to tag everywhere and they do not have permissions. It is definitely considered as graffiti as it’s not art and many people consider tagging as a crime and it should be stopped.

Some pictures From Northern Quarter Manchester

Our Stickers Stickers are easy to apply, and it was easy to remove it as well. It is illegal so therefore the stickers we used were fairly easy to remove. It is also seen as littering and for our stickers we added a holographic background so it was bright and colourful and we wrote mine and Iqraa’s names in Japanese writing so it was different than a normal sticker, to fill in the middle we added an alien's face as we believe in aliens. These are some of places we stuck our stickers.