Urban art as a Landscape Phenomenon in today’s Society

Today in literature of Urban Art in our country, the definition of it, is either based on the mission ofart work to improve the quality of urban landscape or on a variety of art works in the city; however theinteresting point here is that the Urban Art is not clearly determined in the previous studies. How can itaffect the quality of urban landscape? And whether all works of art in the city are caused such qualities?With the distribution of artworks all over the cities and failure to reach their maximum determined targets,it seems that Urban Art has been backed away from its original essence and subdued by some stylesattenuating its values as much as decorations and ornaments of city. Therefore, it has not only lost itsmeaningful presence in the city, but also [the present application of it] has led to some sort of confusion.To achieve the desired goals, this paper suggests considering urban art as a landscape phenomenon,because it depends on two components, citizen (human) as the target audience that urban art works arecreated for him, and social space as an environment to form perceptions and social interactions, not just asimple context of the works. Finally it concludes, in modern times, the most appropriate platform for urbanart is not every urban space and public space, but it is a social space establishing the social connections asthe highest goal of civic life to be able to invite the target audiences to understand art works and achieveurban qualities in this calling.

Keywords:

Urban art , Landscape phenomenon , Citizens , Social space