▪ Public art is often site-specific, meaning it is created in

response to the place and community in which it

resides.
▪ Public art is art created with the intention that it will be
viewed by the general public, in the public place.
▪ Art done for municipal buildings or city parks, for
example.
▪ Site Specificity refers to the belief that public art is
produced expressly for the spot where it is displayed
and that the creator does not intend for it to move
somewhere else.
▪ These artworks could be constructed as either
permanent or transitory works of art.Works that are
only intended to last a set amount of time.
▪ For the purpose of making money or profit.
▪ To gain publicity or to showcase their art to a larger audience.
▪ To inform the broader public - this could be about art in general or a specific
cause.
▪ The artwork provides a utilitarian purpose in terms of usefulness.
▪ The government.
▪ The artist.
▪ A private funder.
▪ Public art is typically funded through the government, but increasingly through
public-private partnerships as well. Percent for Art is an ordinance or policy
specifying that a percentage of a city’s capital improvement project funds (CIP) are
set aside for the commission, purchase, fabrication, and installation of public
artwork. Percent for Art ordinances typically designate around 1 percent of the
total construction or renovation budget. Percent for Art projects are typically
incorporated on a city-owned site such as civic center, library, plaza, or park.
▪ Private developers are increasingly incorporating and funding public art in private
development projects. These public art projects may be funded through grants or
loans to a program. Americans for the Arts does not fund public art.
▪ It is occasionally financed using funds provided by taxpayers.
▪ It's sometimes against the law.
▪ It's possible that not everyone will comprehend it.
▪ The art will not appeal to everyone. It occupies space.
▪ Tilted Arc is a work by Richard Serra.
▪ This 1981 wall sparked debate almost as soon
as it was completed.
▪ This sculpture was only up for a brief time
before being compelled to be pulled down.
▪ The artist was given the option of moving the
sculpture, but declined, claiming that it was
highly particular and attracted vandalism,
rodents, and terrorists.
 ▪ Anish Kapoor, Anish Kapoor,
Anish Kapoor, Anish Kap The
skyline, as well as the millions
of people that view it each year,
are warped by sculpture. The
stainless steel sculpture was
intended to be the focal point of
the Lurie Garden, which is
located in the park's southeast
corner.

Located in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois Cloud

Gate, 2004
Winding Out, 2014
Robert Winkler

▪ This public art sculpture was part of the

Bull City Sculpture Show.
▪ Located at 101 West Parrish Street at the
corner of Orange Street and Mangum
Street
▪ Robert Winkler, Over and Up, 2010
▪ Temporarily on display at Western
Carolina University
▪ Not sit specific All three dimensions
LxWxH all 7.9 feet
▪ Raphael, School of Athens, 1510
▪ Murals can be 1512
collaborative or created by one
artist.
▪ Murals are typically large.
▪ Painting created for the
Vatican.
▪ This painting is a fresco, or a
painting embedded in plaster.

Diego Rivera, “From the Conquest to 1930,” History of
Mexico murals, 1929–30, fresco, Palacio Nacional,
Mexico City
▪ Diego Rivera, Mural In National Palace
▪ This mural tells the story of Mexico’s
history
▪ Using the people as a reference you can
tell the immense size of this painting
▪ The History of Mexico, as a series of murals
that span three large walls within a grand
stairwell of the National Palace in Mexico
City. In Rivera’s words, the mural represents
“the entire history of Mexico from the
Conquest through the Mexican Revolution .
. . down to the ugly present.”
▪ Murals often depict the area which they are
painted.
▪ They also typically depict the lives of
people or things happening in those areas.
1) Forest City Mural created in 2000 2) Mural of life in Cleveland County 2005

3) American Legion Mural 2008 4) Rutherford Hospital Mural 2005

Political figures would have been depicted
in ancient graffiti.It would have taken place
in city centres or public forums.

The first representation of Jesus is

supposed to be this early graffiti.

Graffiti of gladiators from Pompeii at the Naples

National Archaeological Museum
▪ Designed for Barack Obama's 2008
presidential campaign.
▪ Changed to the HOPE 2007 saw fqom picture
Obama's campaign by Shepherd Fairey.
▪ The Associated Press has filed a lawsuit
against an artist for using their photos.
▪ Shepherd Fairey is one of a plethora of street
artists that have made the transition from street
art to fine art.
▪ Graffiti artists have traditionally remained
nameless to the general population.
▪ Tags, or brief territorial markers of artists
or even gangs, are frequently used.It's
sometimes linked to gangs.
▪ Different fonts are created by artists for
spray painting, writing messages, and
symbols.
▪ Messages can be poetic or humorous at
times.
▪ SAMO, a.k.a. Jean Michel Basquiat, created
this graffiti. Henry Flynt took the photos.
Artworks are deemed impermanent and
are frequently replaced by new artists' Graffiti by SAMO aka Jean Michel Basquiat
work or painted over by authorities.
▪ Graffiti that is not commissioned is illegal
and considered vandalism.
▪ Images rendered in the form of computer icons
are used by the artist.
▪ Because of their virtual style and placement in a
non-virtual context, Pixel Phil's images clash
with the environment.

Pixel Pour (By Kelly Goeller)

▪ All City Canvas
Distrito Federal
Centro, 06010
Ciudad de México,
D.F., Mexico
▪ AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO. Jose Guadalupe Posada was a famous political
printmaker born in Aguascalientes city
▪ All City Canvas Distrito Federal Centro, 06010 Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico
▪ Murales de Diego Rivera en la Secretaria de Educacion Publica Republica de
Argentina, 28 Centro, 06010 Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico
 ▪ “Raices”
Plaza Manuel Tolsa
Square of the Three Cultures
Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas
Tlatelolco, 06900
Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico

Raices is a depiction of a giant root that extends to 14 historical sites throughout Mexico City designed to
provoke reflection of the nation's past. Collectively weighing about 28 metric tons, and measuring 1.2
kilometers in length, the roots are manufactured with an interior of steel and covered in polyurethane and
fiberglass
▪ “The Angel of Independence” Paseo de la Reforma y Eje 2 PTE Juárez Cuauhtémoc
Ciudad de México, D.F. Mexico
 Pablo Picasso: Guernica
▪ Guernica, oil on canvas
by Pablo Picasso, 1937;
in the Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid.
▪ 3.49 × 7.77 m.

In 1937, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso created Guernica, a massive black-and-white oil painting.

When it was first presented in the Spanish Republic Pauilion at the World's Fair in Paris, the
complicated painting garnered mixed reviews, but it went on to become a symbol as it toured
across the world in subsequent years, sparking debates about its significance and true location.
▪ Cheong Lai tong
▪ The National Museum, Kuala Lumpur
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsJVj9ucwE