Digital sculpting and street art: points of contact

Abstract

The interaction of two artistic forms – street art and digital sculpting – has not yet become widespread, but such trends are beginning to take shape. This article explores whether there are any points of contact between them and how this contact is manifested. Street art and digital sculpting are considered as relatively new artistic forms, which nevertheless have many points of contact with the history of art and with each other. The works of foreign and Russian street art ists (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, Monk HF, Andrey Olenev) and digital sculptors (Gal Youssef, Jean-Michel Bihorel, Nacho Riesco Gostans, Eric Baziletti-Kargall) were chosen as art objects demonstrating the similarity of the two artistic forms. Studies into the artistic experiences of the iconic representatives of these art movements have revealed that attention to the rich pal ette of pop culture images, appeals to the inner feelings and personal experiences of the artist, re flections on current social events, and the use of remixing, reconstruction, and reusing individual materials or artifacts to create new meanings, both unite street art and digital sculpting, and con tribute to the mutual enrichment of the considered artistic traditions.