At Wicked Broz, we witness artists define the culture they live and breathe every day. So we asked a simple question in our Delhi WhatsApp group: What is street art? We got some wild responses so here’s a curated version of what the community had to say.
The Street Art Community in Delhi Answers
Street art featuring a realistic portrait of Ravi by the Manmauji group in Delhi 2025
Aakshat Sinha, Curator at UrbanFringe Art Gallery and Image Nation Street Art
“I like nature. Buildings, roads, traffic, and other elements like waste, or wires sometimes suppress the beauty of nature and bring chaos in my mind. Whenever I see murals on walls I become naturally calm and happy and distracts me from the chaos and makes me happy.
In a line – Street art is calm within chaos and beauty within distraction.”
Shikha Street Art
“Street art is freedom, when art is going beyond galleries and reclaiming space. Available to everyone to pause, reflect and invoke emotions. Especially in small cities where people have never been to galleries and don’t even understand the concept of it, they are also witnessing art, through street art.
My own parents visited the gallery for the first time this September, I didn’t realize this before but they were well aware because of many beautiful street art in their own city.”
Abhishek Kumar Singh, Curator at Curves and Colors
“Art that performed out of galleries to speak directly to the people, on walls, streets, and unexpected surfaces.”
Ravish Chaudhary, Kratrim Tattoo Studio
“हिंदी में कहूँ तो ये एक ऐसा मंच है जहाँ mostly tickets नहीं लगती किसी का करतब देखने में, या कहूँ के ये एक ऐसा पड़ाव है जहाँ अगर किसी कलाकार ने अपनी कला के ज़रिए बात जाहिर करना सीख लिया तो फिर शायद ही ज़रूरत हो किसी की आलोचना या तारीफ़ों की. Street Artists को हर तरह के दर्शक मिल जाते हैं जो लोग art galleries या museums तक नहीं जा पाते उन्हें भी ना ना प्रकार की कलाओं को देखने का सौभाग्य प्राप्त होता है.”
Tapasya Mittal
“A different, unique and a fascinating way to express, convey & spread your message to among all those people who are not actually aware about the art.✨”
We see so many different perspectives about what is street art. Street art matters to each one of us. Every artist sees the streets differently. And that’s exactly what keeps street art alive — the diversity of voices, styles, and stories.
“Street art encompasses a variety of works such as graffiti art, sticker art, stencil graffiti, street poster art, urban knitting, and wheat pasting, to name a few. It is the association with graffiti, and tagging in particular, that makes it difficult for some people to define street art as a valid art form.” – Eden Art
Street art is a lot of things and yet according to me it is not wall art done commercially inside cafes and offices. I see too many artists finding vocation in wall art (myself included) and yet labeling themselves as street artists when they have probably never painted a wall on the street in their life. Even if they did paint an outdoor wall, it was commercially, painting whatever was decided by the CLIENT. It was not as a message to society, without a voice. That is not street art.
I’d like to end by summarizing my own views on what is street art – “Bhaiyo aur behno, kabhi kabhi apna brush khud ke liye bhi uthao aur bahar jao aur kuch aisa banao, jo kabhi kisi ne dekha na ho. Be original, be free. Brush nai, installation bhi, street play ya music bhi street art kar sakti hai. Naali, ped, terrace, airport, bus stop, road, flyover, dukano ke beech me gaps me…sab cheezein explore karo. Don’t expect payment, don’t need expensive art supplies, reuse old material, logo se inspiration lo aur apna message failao. TV aur Instagram se zyada log street pe dikhte hai so go do shit that people see with their own eyes.”
Read more article around street art, graffiti and the Wicked Broz art community on our blog – The Wicked Broz Magazine
