A street artist is someone who creates art in public for the pleasure of passers-by, usually tourists, in order to earn money.
This includes artists who do portraits for people and artists who use pastel crayons to copy famous paintings onto pavements. Pastel is an Art medium in the form of a stick consisting of pure powdered Pigment and a binder Passers-by can show their appreciation by giving coins. usually into a hat or a can. Regardless of the accuracy of the likeness or excellence of the work, portrait artists usually consider payment mandatory - which is why some local governments (in London, for instance) consider it street trading and therefore work requiring a license. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Tricks of the portrait artist include exaggerating about the shortness of the sitting, to praising the supposed beauty of prospective customers' wives or children in order to flatter, to charging apparently well-off clients extra. In their favor, many have excellent ability, and as a whole, they add atmosphere to squares and alleys. Popular areas include parts of the West End in London and Montmartre in Paris. Montmartre is a hill (the butte Montmartre) which is 130 metres high giving its name to the surrounding district in the north of Paris in the 18th Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Many portrait artists are also capable caricaturists.
Some people may use this term more broadly to refer to people involved in busking, such as musicians who sing and/or play instruments, acrobats, jugglers and living statues, or for those performing street theatre. Busking is the practice of performing in Public places for Tips and Gratuities. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking is one of the Performing arts, and is also practiced as a Sport. Juggling is a physical human skill involving the movement of objects usually through the air for entertainment (see Object manipulation) The term living statue refers to a Mime artist who poses like a Statue or Mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like Makeup, sometimes for Street theatre is a form of theatrical Performance and presentation in outdoor Public spaces without a specific paying Audience.
In New York City, street artists have an advocacy group that has won numerous Federal lawsuits on their free speech rights. [1]
 A street painter working outside Centre Pompidou. Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement The painting being copied is Vermeer's Het meisje met de parel. Johannes or Jan Vermeer (baptized in Delft with the name Joannis on October 31 1632, and buried in the same city under the name Jan The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer 's masterworks and as the |
 A street painter in New York City (July, 2000). Street painting is the activity of rendering artistic designs on pavement such as streets sidewalks and town squares with impermanent materials The City of New York |
 Group of street performers on parade in Bologna (Italy). Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest |