The impermanence of street art

Street art has been an accepted and respected form of art for many years. It’s a way of creating identity for urban areas, but also a way for the artists to convey ideas, criticise society or protest governments. Street art is by nature not everlasting — from the very moment the art work is born, there is a chance it will be repainted. And that’s the beauty of it — only the spectator that is there within the right time frame, can share in the experience of seeing it. An experience that afterwards, will never me shared by someone else again. With this, street art is much closer to our own experience of the impermanence of life than a 16th century Mona Lisa and that’s why we love it. Like us, the art work will eventually die. There are no realistic ways of conserving street art. Taking out the piece of wall and placing it in a secure place, will eliminate the ‘street’ and turn the work into merely ‘art’. The other way is photography, but a photo of an artwork can never have the same impact on the spectator than the work itself. <a href="https://medium.com/whichway/the-art-of-impermanence-92362bf9e220">Click Here</a>