GRAFFITI: ART EXPRESSION OF REVOLUTION!!!

According to Oxford dictionary a graffiti is “writing or drawing, scratched illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place”, according to Longman dictionary: “rude, humorous, or political writing and pictures on the walls of buildings, trains, etc.” that subculture found a way of express feelings, opinion a philosophy of each social group, especially in the big cities, in Colombia my country, this kind of subculture have had a considerable space in the social-political development, due to the fact of violence, corruption and poverty. According to the survey Psychology: community approaches to contemporary social problems (2011): “In Colombia over years, there have been accumulating feelings of grief, anger and fatigue, caused by the prolonged armed conflict”, and that situation of conflict allow that Colombians and residents, express their thoughts, and a common method is the different graffiti in the wall of many buildings and streets.

In my opinion, the culture of graffiti is a way as a citizen or a specific social group exercised their freedom and their rights, because in our country although the violence and repression, the people can express with freedom their ideas, actually most part of changes in the country was made and published trough this artistic way. Graffiti from “Marcha patriotica” and other politic groups are changing in our minds the idea of inequality and violence. As negative point, sometimes the street art hide false ideals and affect the reputation of  other citizens, my recommendation is to make from this art an opportunity to became true the civilization of love and peace, improving the new model of revolution.

Retrieved from:

International community psychology: community approaches to contemporary social problems. Volume I, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.2011 http://www.gjcpp.org/pdfs/International%20Community%20Psychology%20%20I.%20Volume.pdf#page=233

Oxford dictionaries, http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/graffitii

Longman, Dictionary of contemporary English, http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/graffiti