The topic we are going to talk about today is Street Art as an important vehicle in promoting

environmental awareness.

CHARACTERISTICS AND OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ART

Environmental art encompasses a historical perspective of nature together with a more modern one
linked to ethics and ecological activism. This new artistic approach emerged at the end of the 1960s and,
unlike the classics, it is not limited to the representation of a landscape or to including the environment
in its creations, but goes beyond this: it converts the environment into the work itself in order to raise
awareness of the damage that man does to the planet and call for action.

Air and ocean pollution, global warming, deforestation or the consequences of mass consumption on the
environment are some of the threats that contemporary environmental art denounces through
photography, painting, theatre, dance and sculpture, among other aspects.

The main objectives of environmental art are:

To raise awareness of the dangers lurking on the planet and promote its conservation.

To strengthen communication and citizen participation in the defence of nature.

To encourage political commitment against global warming and its effects.

Ecological art, eco-art or sustainable art

Ecological art takes into consideration that every human activity affects the world around it. For this
reason, it analyses the ecological impact of the construction, exhibition and long-term effects of the
work. Environmental issues are most apparent in the discourse of this type of art - it involves an entire
eco-friendly methodology.

Many projects involve local restoration, or emerge directly from a service function to ecosystems or
communities. This art practice seeks to stimulate care and respect for nature, fostering dialogue and
encouraging long-term structural change.