“ Real Graffiti is Illegal”

 Graffiti is the art of drawing or writing over a wall or public space, the original idea of graffiti is to bomb the system, artist do graffiti in a form of protest against what is going on in society. However, I think that even though it becomes illegal or showcased on an art gallery, does not mean it will not be graffiti anymore. In my opinion graffiti refers more to the style of painting, than to the fact that its objective is to question the system. People draw graffiti everywhere, in walls, subways, buildings, etc. so why it would not be graffiti painting over a canvas, if the idea of graffiti is painting everywhere possible, and besides if the graffiti is being shown on a gallery is because it is consider art, and art gives people the possibility to express all sorts of ideas even if they are against the system.

Graffiti, which is drawn in authorized zones, is not illegal; this does not mean it is not graffiti anymore. Society has misjudged graffiti, this is a form of art, but it may bother some people because it uses public spaces, maybe if it was drawn in special places, destined only for this, people would admire this kind of art and would stop judging it.

Graffiti Description

I took a picture of a graffiti located in street 91 with Carrera 16^th; it is a very big graffiti. It starts on the door of a shop and it goes all the way over the wall of the shop and ends right were the shop ends. The graffiti is a huge face with a small arm pointing towards a sentence the artist wrote, which says: “we are painted on the wall”.

On the face, there are two white eyes with black pupils, the eyebrows are also black and thick, the nose starts from the middle of the eye and as it hoes down to the tip of the nose it gets bigger, under the nose there is an enormous mouth, with red lips, showing teeth that are white but very disorganized. The mouth is open as if it was shouting and you can see the back of the mouth painted in red and black. To the right you can see the arm, compared to the face it is much smaller, the arm starts right next to the mouth and ends next to the sentence. The sentence is painted in black letters, it is written in capital letters which you can read clearly, the back of the letters is yellow which highlights the text.

In relation to the theme I think it is a social protest. They are expressing that they are not being heard or seen; someone else is ignoring them. The face is showing anger and the bigger part of it is the mouth, which is the part of your body that best lets express yourself and by which you can make someone listen to you. This graffiti might be trying to show their support for graffiti, and to the liberty of using walls or public spaces to express themselves.

When you see the graffiti you get the feeling of being angry, being against something, you feel the need to protest and support what the graffiti is fighting for. 

Remembering english skill classes!!

last week i was walking through the "zona T" and i saw a lot of people so i went to see what was going on, when i got closer i saw a wall that said: BEFORE I DIE...
i immediately remeberd our class activity i wanted to write on it but i got bored of waiting my turn so i left.