Street poster art

Street poster art is a kind of graffiti made up of graphics on newspaper-thin paper. It explores attributes (like languages and/or techniques) of the traditional poster. It can be understood as an art piece that is pasted on the streets, but by some, it is not comprehended as a form of contemporary art.

To display these posters, the adhesive "Wheatpaste" is most often used (making the posters hard to tear). Generally posters are found in sub-urban or urban areas and are pasted on smooth surfaces.

Street poster culture is growing quickly. Street posters have been seen in Barcelona, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Sydney and Melbourne.

Graffiti artists have termed Poster art, stickers, and stencils as "Post Modern Graffiti," because graffiti is more of a part of Hip Hop culture than "Post Modern Graffiti."

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