The changing value: from urban to contemporary art

Abstract

This paper aims, through the analysis of some artists that had their education through street art, to identify how their acceptance took place among a wider audience: more specifically their insertion in the world of contemporary arts. Their non-formal education at the same time that highlights them for their novelty, by the exotism of the diferent, also directs them through guiding modes of valuation, different from those of the artists that came from the formal education. It will be raised the notion of the “valorative sets” that guide the artistic production of artists of different backgrounds, as a model to identify their production and its acceptance, and how apparently the crossing of common points in different valorative sets is what defines the greater or lesser success and adequation between different groups.