Graffiti / Street Art Brazil by Adamantopoulou, Griccioli, Serra, Sideris

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Transcript of Graffiti / Street Art Brazil by Adamantopoulou, Griccioli, Serra, Sideris

- HISTORYCultural influencesGraffiti’s historyLegal vs illegal art

2. MOVEMENTS and ARTISTSProfileMovementsGraffiti

WRITING IMAGES(abstract andfigurative) MIX (photo)

3. COMPARISON (NY - Barcelona -Paris)

HISTORY

CULTURAL INFLUENCES

o European traditiono West African slaveso Tribal Art -> tupi peopleo Cannibalism: eating up cultures –“eat what you like and leave thecarcass”

o Local people + homelesso Music - dance

expression of an Identity

HISTORY of BRAZILIANGRAFFITI

o Mid-20th c.: Voice of opposition toBrazil’s social + economical problems

-> way to express opinion

o 40’ - 50’: pichacao

o 1964: military overthrow of democraticgovernment -> became to dangerous

o 60’: Tropicalia movement -> lyrics assource of inspiration

-> Multicolored graffiti + stencil graffiti popular

o 70’: graffiti became more animated -popular opposition reclamed public spaces-> city space as political and culturalexpression

o 70’: “Visual pollution” vs freedom ofexpression (after years of repression)

o 80’: division: graffiti and pichacao

o Hip hop culture influence -> no booksavailable -> had to be inventive

o 90’: create an individual stylereflection of own experiences - exploreown culture - found recognizable style

1995 -> from marginal culture to acceptedart form

LEGAL vs ILLEGALGet commissioned

-> symbol of public pride

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MOVEMENT AND ARTISTS

GRAFFITI

…Writting…

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Pichacao

…Images…

Abstract

Zezao… HE WORKS HERE TO MAKE APOINT ABOUT THE YEARS OFNEGLECT THAT HAVE CAUSED

THIS POLLUTION.

"I DID THIS WORK BECAUSE I

WANTED TO SHOW THEARCHITECTURE AND THE

CONDITIONS OF TUNNELS OF SAO

PAULO, WHICH IS THIS -DEGRADATION, RUBBISH -

EVERYTHING THAT THE RAIN

BRINGS."

36 years old

IS ONE OF THE EXPONENTS OFTHE NEW BRAZILIAN ABSTRACTGRAFFITI. HIS TRADEMARKS ARE

WHAT HE CALLS FLOPS,ELABORATE ARABESQUES THATARE VISUALLY FAR FROM THEPICHACAO LETTERS THAT THEY

FIRST CAME FROM.

HIS MOST STRIKING WORKNOWADAYS HAVE BEEN THE ONE HEDOES IN SÃO PAULO SEWERAGE

SYSTEM AND SUBTERRANEAN WATERDUCTS, WHERE ALL THE WASTES OFTHE BIG CITY ARE WASHED AWAYAMONG ZEZÃO'S WORKS OF ART.

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Figurative

o Signify the Brazilian graffiti

o The main influence of the localscene

o From tagging to epic mural

o Influences:o American hip hop culture &street movies

o Brazilian folk art & São Pauloprotest arto Brazilian pichacao movement

o Barry McGee (American graffitiartist, known as Twist)

31-year-old siblings from São Paulo

Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo

Tate Modern, London

Advertisement and galleries

canvassculptures

SpetoSpeto

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Nina

Highgraff

Highgraff

Boleta

ThiagoSyen

Bugre

Ciro

STREET ART

Kaleb

MARINHo

Curitiba

Fefe

Titifreak

Sao e Delafuente

Lambdalambs

donato

KalebM

ARINHo

MIX

Alex Orion

JR

Collaborative works

Donate, Grandson, Shock, Téia, Over, Maumeks, Angel, Graphis, Binho, Swift, Nine, Dalata, Hyper, Zezão,Ramon - Sao Paulo 2006

Teia, Roko, Deninja, Anjo, Graphis, G, Afi, Does, Nem, Nick - Sao Paulo 2007

GRAFFITI STYLESCOMPARISON

NYCsmall military mission

identity exhadurateddestruction

bombers

museum on wheels

Barcelonaoutside and free for everyone to see

basic expression learning

Paris

I tag therefore I am

social cause

art has a cause

relation to past

not American

architecture

Sao Paulo danger

typographic terrorism

war

architecture

urban intervention

raw

cannibalize culture

new

symbolicraw

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