Urban art is
art that characterizes the development of the city, where it gave birth to the
development of systems in which the structure of society and culture in
contrast to the structure and culture of rural communities. Today art is no
longer a traditional background but rather to better respond to new traditions,
especially in urban areas that are demographically populated by members of the
public are very heterogeneous.
Urban art
born out of a desire to respond to the creativity of the people who live in
urban areas with all the Problem. Then comes the effort of a group of people to
show off and bring art amongst the people by way of freedom of expression in
public spaces. The expression shown is an expression that trying to portray the
problems that often occur and dominate the urban society covers the social,
economic, political and cultural. Through the medium of art and motivated by
growth and capitalization of the town itself. Contemporary art is no longer a
digaleri ditampilakan representation, but a medium of expression that fight in
public facilities with other media such as TV ads, billboard advertising,
promotional posters, and other baligo. All forms of expression are dominated
almost every public facility.
Urban art
managed to cut the ties within the public as a work of art appreciators.
Replace the function of art was sublime, classic, pure, high as well as
traditional. Art is positioned as a conservative and is loaded with a value of
exaltation. Urban art succeeded in undermining those values in a way bring it into the public through the
media close to the daily life of the city. When attract local element in urban
art, painting in the truck and rickshaw are examples of urban art.
The purpose
of urban art are rooted in differences in political attitudes,
anti-establishment, vandalism and resistance to the dominant system in the
community. Concrete forms of urban art can vary throughout the artwork brings
the spirit of urban dynamics. In the city we could see all the expressions of
the urban spirit in many forms. Like the music community street punk gigs were
often held under an overpass Pasupati, artists regularly hold art traditions of
martial arts in the park Cikapayang or mural paintings also ditiang-pole
Pasupati flyover.
In the end succeeded dikomodifikasi urban art by
his own community. These forms of art, especially art and graffiti murals are
now mainly in the city of Bandung gradually managed to become something that
has economic value. Many of the murals and graffiti artists who express their
ideas with the owners or clothing distro in Bandung. The owners of this distro
is to facilitate the artists menyediakanspace / land for expression. In
addition to providing aesthetic value to the store, they also provide the
distribution of the artist wishes to create. For example,, 
poster art
mural art
grafitti
