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

THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACES AT UNI

This places has been selected by importance level and rate for the knowledge of the students and visitors.

Pasteur

One day  my chemical teacher  and I  were passing  for behind the old building  the engineer when  saw a picture , that called our attentionand we went  to near the picture  and readed  the text;  It  is  writing  under the picture

The text say:

I beseessch  you by those sacred places that are designated with the name the laboratories. You pray to multiply  and are gifted. They arethe temples of the future , weath  and well- being , those sacred place allow the humanity  grows up, fortufy and be better.

We thought :  a lesson learnt  hoperfully one day all students not damage  the laboratories.

 

 

The Fifth Element

One day I was sleeping in the grass , when  I wake  up saw in front of the parking a  picture , this called my attention  becouse was four menwith big body and small heads , I went to near the picture and readed the text is under the picture .

The text Say: the name the picrture is “ the fifth elemnt”

The autor the picture was: M. Pardo  in the year 1990

CYT

The Science and Technology was building between 2007 and 2008 in gratitude to the university by Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, his purpose was to inspire and engage, students and teachers, to take on new challenges in innovation, to the graduates, to encourage them to continue giving it to the institution that educated.

The Freud

Nobody knows about the origin of this place but some people believes that is a creacion of the discussions of humanities faculty specialy of psycology, however everyone use this place for relax and intermediate classes.

The Architecture Museum

The architecture museum of the University was built in 1986 as a tribute to the 50th year of the Art department, for being the first department in the country. In 1992 the museum changed its name to Leopordo Rother Museum of architecture, in tribute to the german architect,he was professor of this department and the architect of the University.
Currently the museum is part of the Cultural Patrimony and Museum of the Nacional University project. Which has the objective of spread its popularity and augment the collections of museum to the community of the university and the people in general.

Che Square

At first the name of the Che square’s was the Santander square´s in tribute to Francisco de Paula Santander, who was vicepresident of the Gran Colombia and promoted the idea of the official university. At the beginning, the square had a Santander statue’s but in a disturbance between the police and students in 1976, the statue was knocked down and from there on the students took the name of the Che squares. This name is still use in the present.