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Street art
街头艺术
Street art can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs, and even trash cans from Tokyo to Paris, from Moscow, to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, or stickers. Today the street art movement has become part of a global visual culture. Even art museums and galleries are collecting the works of street artists.
从东京到巴黎，从莫斯科到纽约，可以在建筑物、人行道、路标甚至垃圾桶上找到街道艺术。这种特殊的艺术可以采取绘画、雕塑或贴纸的形式。今天，街头艺术运动已经成为全球视觉文化的一部分，甚至艺术博物馆和画廊也在收集街头艺术家的作品。
It is not easy to provide an exact history of the street art movement. Some experts say the movement began in New York City in the 1960s when young adults used paint in special cans to spray their "tag" on walls and train cars around the city as a way to identify themselves and their artwork. This colorful style of writing is also called graffiti. It is visually exciting and energetic. Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups.
很难给出街头艺术运动的确切发展历程。一些专家说，这一运动始于20世纪60年代的纽约市。当时，年轻人用特制罐子里的颜料将代表自己的“标记”喷在墙上和火车车厢上，以此来界定自己和他们的艺术品。这种多姿多彩的书写风格也被称为涂鸦，它在视觉上令人兴奋，感到充满活力。一些涂鸦画是标记城市帮派或非法犯罪集团领地的标志。
However, graffiti soon developed as an artistic movement expressing the street culture of young people living in big cities, who rejected the accepted rules of culture and power and resorted to graffiti to represent social and political rebellion.
然而，涂鸦很快发展成为一种艺术运动，表达生活在大城市中年轻人的街头文化，他们拒绝接受文化和权力规则，诉诸涂鸦来代表社会和政治叛乱。
During the 1980s, two New York painters, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, started creating their paintings on the streets. And they soon became very famous and began showing their work in art galleries and museums. This is when street art started to become part of the popular culture. Ever since then street art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world.
20世纪80年代，两位纽约画家，基思·哈林和让·米歇尔·巴斯奎特开始在街头创作他们的绘画作品。不久，他们就成名了，开始在美术馆和博物馆展出他们的作品。此时，街头艺术开始成为流行文化的一部分。从那以后，街头艺术在世界各地以多种方式发展。
