Role of Graffiti

Graffiti is an street art, one of the four pillar of Hip Hop culture, and it's used to express different feelings a thoughts from their artists. In this post we talk about graffiti in four Latin Americans countries: Colombia, Argentina, Honduras and Brazil.

Colombia:
When Tom Feiling lived in Bogota in 2001 and 2002, he didn't see many expressions of street art but, ten years later, he saw how the art of graffiti grew up in the city.
Feiling show in his article different graffitis with different messages and feelings from the Colombian graffiti artists. For example, he showed graffitis with social content like Mafalda graffiti in La Candelaria; graffitis with political content like the graffiti when it's accused the expresident Alvaro Uribe for the "false positives". These graffitis show the message or feelings that the graffiti arts want to express.

Argentina:
The graffiti in Buenos Aires are converted the city in a jungle. The Buenos Aires city are became in a big art gallery with many graffitis in their streets, walls and bulidings. All of them, expressing different messages, feelings and in the same way have abstracts expressions and draws of animals like turtles, horses. Among this messages we can find politicals message likewise in Colombian graffitis.

Honduras:
In Tegucigalpa, Honduras therea are a big flood of violence that it had generated that city be a one of the most dangerous cities in the world. In the article mentioned that "Tegucigalpa has become one of the world's deadliest cities, with more than 87 homicides per 100,000 people - 10 times the rate considered an epidemic of violence by the World Health Organisation".  Therefore, the graffiti artists have used their art to express their position front the problems, situation of their country and the way of goverment.

Brazil:
The graffiti in Brazil talk about how people living in the city. The article mentioned a two graffiti artist (Nunca and Os Gemeos) whom works show your position front the situation of country. The article metioned too, a Vitché, "whose work is featured in the book, says that when he began making street art he was protesting the destruction of nature in favor of big cities. Now his art is influenced by the political climate and corruption in Brazil".