The Art behind Street Art

Pop Art began in Britain in the early 1950's. The Independent Group, which was created in London in 1952, originally called the movement Propaganda Art. The artist Eduardo Paolozzi gave a lecture of images he had found whilst in Paris through an epidiascope. The images were of mass produced graphics that represented popular American culture.

The term "pointillism" was first used by art critics in the late 1880's to mock the work of the impressionist artists. Georges Seurat originally developed the style of painting using small dabs of oil paint, but this style was inspired by the science of colour theory developed by Herman Helmholtz and Michel-Eugène Chevruel. 

Street artist James Cochran developed the style of pointillism from working on Aboriginal projects in Australia. Developing this technique to make it more his own he thought "People have done dots before, so why don't I try drips." He called this style aerosol pointillism.  (read more here)

Miles 'Mac' MacGregor incorporates repeating ripples or contour lines into his work large scale street portraits. Alan Turing, the mathematician and the 'father of the modern computer', wrote a paper about how certain chemical reactions produce patterns that occur naturally in nature.