Of course, street art is cloaked in many questionable and disputable issues, including property damage concerns, differences in perception by different social strata, and so on and so far; but let us try to abstract away from all those conventions for a minute and try to evaluate the artistic or aesthetic value of the street art. Isn’t it beauty, skills, talent, and important messages we can see in most of the street art works? Furthermore, street artists usually choose places for their works carefully, drawing their pictures on really shabby buildings and walls, which otherwise would simply continue to spoil the city landscape with desolation, dullness, and dereliction. In such places, street art works like a ray of light, which brightens up the surroundings, creates the atmosphere of hope, and inspires people.

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