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Street Art is everywhere. Misunderstood and considered illegal for a long time, Urban Art, known as Pressionism, is today deemed an art within itself. From Basquiat to Bando, not forgetting Rammellzee, or even Toxic, this work presents the very first initiators of this graffiti movement as well as the great American and French masters.

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Marc Restellini is an art historian and director of French museums. He studied History of Art at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and perfected the system of travelling exhibitions. After several years as the Artistic Director of the Musee du Luxembourg, Restellini created the Pinacotheque de Paris, a place of culture, discussion, and exhibitions French architect Alain-Dominique Gallizia is a patron of the urban arts and a curator-collector working towards the recognition of graffiti as an art. The Gallizia Fund exhibition, containing over 500 works on canvas, has strongly contributed to the recognition of this aerosol art . Margo Thompson teaches 20th-century art history at the University of Vermont, with an emphasis on critical theory, race, gender, and sexuality. Her interests in African-American art history, contemporary art, and public art intersect in her research on graffiti art in New York in the 1980s.

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