What is Street Art?

Urban spaces where street art is conventionally displayed can be regarded as 

"cultural fields and texts [...] that affect the community" (Visconti et al 512).

In order to convey political or social messages effectively, street art works through three different phenomena related to the field of visual culture...

1) Appropriation

2) Interpellation

3) Democratization

Street art is a powerful tool in visual culture that encourages or effects political discourse 

through critical, innovate content and creative public display of graffiti and public art.