martes, 28 de octubre de 2014

Street Art

Sometimes though as vandalism, Sometimes as Art, Graffiti always is amazing and outright way to express a message to everybody. Graffiti doesn't discriminate genders, skins or religions, is a message given to everyone who look the site its done. Anyway, i think graffiti not only can send a public message, but also can talk about the citizens and how is the culture of people on the city the painting is.
For example, graffitis have not been conceived the same way between Barranquilla and Bogota. In our city we can see a lot of draws not finished and carnival graffitis everywhere. Thats because government just support graffiti on culture representations with folklore meanings, but in bogota, a few campaigns support graffiti's artist giving them different spaces to express their messages with freedom. 
We can see a lot of differences between Argentinan and colombian culture in their street art. Actually in Argentina people have adopt graffiti as a way to decorate streets and make the city an art gallery, but Bogota see on graffitis a way to express disagreement with standard ideology and political nonconformity for example.
My point is, in conclusion, graffiti isn't just a way to express a thinking of the artist, or send a message. Graffiti express too the way of living of the city, the culture and ideology of people.

2 comentarios:

  1. Hi Amy! I agree with you in so far as the graffitis do become part of the culture of a city or even a country. This is because, they express lifestyles, thoughts and objections from citizens and they are ways of communication. Although most of them do not use words, they convey a message.

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  2. Hi Amy, you are true when you say that the street art express how a culture is. And the comparation with Colombia and Argentina is successful, because we see that colombian culture turn around about political conflict in return the argentinan culture are more interestec in artistic and cultural things.

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