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Sticker Art

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Rear panel to Paris , with stickers of Koleo, Phot, Akzo, Zadeam, 1984 crew, etc. ...
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Glass covered with stickers in Amsterdam: Oral, TLP (The London Police), Typo, etc..

The sticker art is a form of street art which is to publish a picture or a message to the help of stickers in English), displayed in public spaces. These stickers can be the support of graffiti , a logo or design. The sticker art is considered a category of art postgraffiti.

This art form allows taggers to put their tags or graffiti anywhere instantly, with a much lower risk of arrest and less damage on the surface covered with other forms of street art ; and ink painting in particular.

Summary

/ / History

The first to use the stickers as a means of expression and communication are political activists, especially of the extreme left. Faster and easier to paste a poster, it serves primarily to invade different media.

It was during the 2000s that artists have seized upon this support.

Since the late 2000s , it is the clubs supporters of football clubs who are waging a war of fame via the stickers affixed to the streets of the city where they encourage the team, but also those they visit to during sports movements.

Sticker art in Sao Paulo , Brazil.

Types of stickers

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RDEO1 and Gkay, Paris, Boulevard du Montparnasse, within a bin, on stickers "Hello my name is."

Different types of stickers are used in sticker art. The most sophisticated are the product of a graph and printed on a base of vinyl with companies that produce advertising stickers. When stickers are made by taggers, they are more frequently single paper. Most of them use stickers cheap or even free, recovered from postal facilities Media

The media are many, the issue being whether they are both as smooth as possible, to obtain the best possible grip, and most "public" as possible in order not to be removed by an owner or services cleaning. However, some owners of mopeds for example, tolerate that their property is covered with stickers. The sticker calls the sticker. Therefore, gutters , back of signs, posts of all kinds are gradually covered with stickers in major European cities. According to the policies implemented by cleaning the various municipalities, the media in which artists stick differ from one city to another. In some cities, traffic lights are for example regularly scratched or not.

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Chest moped. Various artists, including JR with an extract of the series Face2Face.

Artists

The relationship between graffiti and sticker-art are narrow. Some practice two to pass from one to another (Zadyme, 9.10do in Paris for example), but it is the common dimension of the intervention and the signature in the urban areas between them.

Like the taggers, some sticker-artists are engaged in a competition, usually more than good-reports that may exist in graffiti. This is to occupy the best spot to be as high on a gutter, to vary its stickers, travel the most, etc..

The sticker also takes art to graffiti crews in the organization of certain artists.

Paris

    • 5t1k: RDEO1, Gkay, Zadeam, Yace, Mily, Think, Yael, Obskur, Vis (Montpellier), Elf, Zick, Sixela, Sela.
    • S/75: Akzo, Phot, Flytox, Deac, JB, Dubwise, GLC, York, Ren1, Koleo, The Eye, etc..
    • out crew: 3615, R2Rien, Oliva, Leo and Pipo
    • Provincial: I love TP, Salcon
    • Abroad: Freaq (NL)

Street Marketing

Do not confuse sticker art and street marketing , one of the forms is to use the methods and means of street art. While the first part of an artistic and free, the second has a commercial intent. The development of the first causes the emergence of the second.

Legal Provisions

Asking stickers on the highway is considered to display wild . This activity is illegal.

References

  1. The most frequently used for artistic purposes are those of the USPS (United States) and Deutsche Post (with a header of its subsidiary DHL , Germany).
  2. See also

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