urban art
Street art or street art, English translation of the term street art, describes all art as expressed in the street, usually illegally. Encompasses both urban art graffiti as to various other forms of artistic expression in the street. The cities that are key points of street art are Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin, São Paulo and Toronto, among others.
Since the middle of the 90's the term street art or, more specifically, Post-Graffiti is used to describe the work of a varied group of artists who have developed a way of artistic expression in the streets by using various techniques (templates, posters, stickers, murals ....), that deviate from the famous graffiti.

Art made by the people and for the people, usually on an anonymous basis for decorative purposes and simple materials and low value material. Corresponds to a people and a geographical definition, but not to a historical period. Folk art has no seasons and the continuity of forms, colors, subjects and procedures are characteristics. Not identify the author's person, but can be classified by schools or local groups.

Street art in its broadest conception and literal describes all art developed in the street, usually illegally. This would include both the graffiti as various other forms of artistic intervention in the street.

The use of templates (stencil), often with a political message, is especially important in Paris in the second half of the 60's. However, not until the mid 90's with the emergence of artists like Shepard Fairey and his American campaign Obey (Obey Giant) (Obey the Giant), designed from the character image of Andre The Circus Giant and carried out by using posters and templates, when the various proposals of this kind come to rise in different parts of the world and are perceived as a whole as part of the same phenomenon or scene.

graffiti

It's called graffiti (taken from the Italian plural word graffiti, graffire) or painted in various forms of inscription or painting, usually on furniture. The Royal Academy of Spanish referred to as "graphite" a particular painting and its corresponding plural is "graffiti. "
Also called graffiti to entries that have been in walls from Roman times.

In common parlance, the graffiti includes what is also called painted: the result of signs painted on the walls, often political or social content, with or without the permission of the owner of the property, and the sign or set of signs that character have been painted in one place. Also called graphite, by extension, the slogans that have become popular with these techniques, for example, graffiti in the May 1968 riots in Paris: L'imagination au pouvoir (power to the imagination), or Sous les Pavés il ya la plage (under the cobblestones is the beach, etc.). The term graffiti is also used to refer to the artistic movement of the same name, as distinct from painting or as a subcategory of it, with its origins in the twentieth century. It was a movement started in 1960 in New York, or, as alluded bibliographic sources as getting from the underground, in Philadelphia.

El grafiti es uno de los cuatro elementos básicos de la cultura hip hop, donde se llama grafo o grafiti a un tipo específico. En este sentido, una pintada política no sería un grafito.

types of graffiti
According to Lynn, N and Lea JS, graffiti is formed through the text, content and social opinion, forming a visual communication. For this there are 3 kinds of graffiti that are presented below:

Graffiti Art Excerpted from the American street music "hip-hop" of the 70s and 80s. Those working in this genre call themselves "writers. " Is that the artist can be captured in 3 different ways:
1) Tag, written in a unique and customized using 1 color,
2) Throw-up: includes letters, words, or a list of names and using 2 colors, and
3) Piece, that is the most elaborate, at least 3 colors are used and it takes several days to finish it completely

.Slogans also called "public graffiti, Halsey and Youg say the slogans are based on personal opinion through the range of political issues (environmental concerns, feminism, government policies, international relations, etc), but all share the fact want to express to the audience in a natural way, his way of seeing things.

Latrinalia Also called "private graffiti. " It's the kind of graffiti that is done in the bathroom, ie, walls, doors, mirrors that found in the bathrooms. Sometimes that contains pictures, words, including poetry and personal reflections.

Tagging  A tag or Tager ("label") is practically a signature or an acronym for a person or group of people, usually Crews. For the tags with the name of the Crew are commonly used abbreviations or just the initials. Although a tag comprises much more than just a signature, is a way to express a style with a nickname or alias, as in many parts of street art is illegal, and in many cases not enough to realize its graffiti all, that is when the tag enters utility, quickly and somewhat dangerous to express an own style when "graffiti. " It is identified as a "graffiti. "


Grafito en Aalborg (Dinamarca), 2003.


Grafito de estilo hip hop en Estados Unidos, 2000.


urban art medellin
The graffiti are quasi-artistic judgments expressed through irregular writings, very graphic and colorful, using spray paint on walls, fences, walls or public, students, workers, trade unionists, religious groups, social displaced, left, right or other intellectual , expressed their dissatisfaction with the system, also racism and xenophobia or just want to say something that other media find it impossible to say what they think.

Messages or statements are full of picaresque folk or irony, that develop within the cultural landscape an open book for all and sundry for many years, and somehow get to brood over an unsuspecting passerby.

Present some of the more popular you can find in Medellin or in any city in Colombia.


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