In Bogotá graffitis and murals are a cultural expression!

 

 

The graffiti  and murals creates an own language that creates a distinguishing feature to the rest of society There is a process in which messages transtextual as, trademarks, singers, magazines, sayings, etc ... are taken out of context and rearranged in unusual places in the city, surrounded by discourses and images that dislocate its old meaning.

The painting of murals is often thought that a modern art, an urban phenomenon, but in reality, it's nothing like that. People have been painting murals for millennia and some ancient murals, preserved in tombs in Egypt and piles of ash in Pompeii, are still visible today. The walls intervention is much more than a sign of paint. In the past two years have made ​​specialized youth groups to give a new face to depressed areas in several localities of the cities

Graffitis and murals are a public art with its aesthetic and ideological values ​​plays a role conceptually disturbs art has always been working for architecture and urbanism, the central location of the graffiti in the city make reading slower and reflective of the beholder.

The wall art is a means of transforming communicative, sociocultural, you need to show, inserted into a public exhibition area, as varied today regarding quality issues and incorporate recognized urban images from our civic culture.

In the graffiti and murals appears abstractions, cartoons, comic book characters, cartoon and signs mural representative of different types. Also his tenure as artwork and collective expression of the time is also related to urban and architectural space that has it.

The mural is a graphic messenger, where "a picture is worth a thousand words", we are in an era in which the image has on us an absolute tyranny, and so communication is the image that we could say it is the true universal medium that reaches around the world and can be understood by all.

You can see in this mural an ancient and aboriginal picture, maybe is a form of tribute for ancient indian cultures in our country, you can see lots of colors and shapes in this picture.

The authors of these works wish that when people want to see the murals, causing them something and mobilized, or at least problematize temporary or more structural issues, with a distinct look to get them through the mass media, these are not an individual work or just a drawing, but there are plenty of important tasks to perform and this is achieved only with the group effort.

The walls and say something, the trick is to play with them: significant change to the meaning, adding, removing, in short, play using art and creativity in this walls.

Street performers talk about "winning the Street" thus describing a kind of struggle for the possession of public places through strokes, drawings and paintings that reflect life that give color to a gray matizadade society by routine, stress and the fast pace of city life.

The walls or walls of a containing, more or less durability, shapes and brands of those who live in the place. These are home, retain or hide fragments, events, everyday moments the place.

The beauty is reflected in the most unexpected corners of the city and offer to anyone that transit, and ready to watch, a subtle critique of contemporary society, here we can appreciate female beauty as a central image of these murals.

You can see this murals with apes like a chimpanzees and gorillas these thematize environmental issues. Indeed, a number of images constructed by young people have to anchor a network of concerns about nature, its transformation, its ownership, its uses.

In the National University of Colombia you can see many beautiful and creative murals; these murals have tell a story, where the story told in many cases is a complaint, a warning, the desire to transform a given situation that art give life to university walls, you can see the diversity of cultures and ideological tendences in National University, there are a some examples from murals into National University