Street Art/Graffiti — ART

Parietal paintings come from prehistoric times. Ever since Man has known himself as Man, he has had the need to represent what he sees, of course initially out of a sense of possession – the image brought him closer to the object -, later Man starts to decorate the walls and ceilings for simple delight, the the greatest example of all are the frescoes by Michelangelo’s – Sistine Chapel. In the last century walls and blind walls were an affirmation of a culture account, the marking of territory or just the pleasure of doing something forbidden, the adrenaline of risk, who doesn’t remember the CP carriages in Portugal., and many other examples that when we remember it make us shiver and wonder how they had the courage. Today it is a way of life, recognized and appreciated by everyone, or almost everyone.

Rock art are artistic representations: animals, plants, people and abstract symbols, most of the time difficult to interpret, made on walls and ceilings in prehistoric times; fresco, a technique used by the Greeks and Romans, some to tell ancient chronicles, others as irony and a political weapon, is a pictorial work in mortar or plaster and made where? on walls and ceilings, and on murals (what we call blind walls today) we are talking about the 5th century BC; 20th century (1970s), graffiti from the Italian graffiti, which means writing made with charcoal, which is nothing more nor less than artistic representations: animals, plants, people and abstract symbols, most of the time difficult to interpret (no. I wasn’t mistaken, it really is a copy of rock art), carried out on walls, walls and even on the ground.

From the walls of the Bronx (where graffiti was born in the neighboring city of New York, as a form of protest. The Latino, African-American and Jamaican communities used mural painting as a form of protest and to call the attention of the authorities to the miserable living conditions in residential neighborhoods, the racism they were victims of and still are; having been used by the “gangs” as a marking of territory) quickly invaded the New York subway and from here to the world it was a magical step.

Yes, because there are two types of inscriptions, some with drawings, logos, phrases, others with images, some even reproduce paintings by well-known artists or icons of local cultures. Graffiti, is urban art, and is the whole parietal work with images (drawings), phrases, scribbles, insults, tags (signatures), declarations of love, summarizing writing, it’s called pichação and this is indeed an act of vandalism.