# Street Art — Walls as Canvas

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Category: Art
Slides: 15
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:34.572Z
Tags: art, street

## Summary

Walls as canvas. A pasted-up history of mark-making in public — from the first kid in Philadelphia who wrote his name in marker on a wall, to the global art form of stencils, paste-ups, murals, sculpture, and post-graffiti gallery work that followed. Key sections include: STREET ART.; ORIGINS — Philly, the Bronx, the Subway; The Style Wars; A Pioneers Wall; Into the Gallery; Stencils — the speed of a click; Banksy; The Post-Graffiti Generation; A Global Atlas; Toolkit & Techniques.

## Slide Outline

1. STREET ART.
2. ORIGINS — Philly, the Bronx, the Subway
3. The Style Wars
4. A Pioneers Wall
5. Into the Gallery
6. Stencils — the speed of a click
7. Banksy
8. The Post-Graffiti Generation
9. A Global Atlas
10. Toolkit & Techniques
11. Is it Legal?
12. Critique — Authenticity & the Mural-Industrial Complex
13. Selected Timeline
14. From the Field
15. Watch & Read Next

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