Graffiti Art Appreciation (I) 
last thing many people think when talking about graffiti is that they are works of art. But I must say that art is manifested in many forms and every form of expression has a rationale, a reason, a how and where ......
The graffiti is associated with the era of globalization is primarily an art of protest, vindication for specific purposes. Is to raise, move the art to the streets, accessible to all and for all. The artists come out to fight with their spray trying to conquer the public suburban space they claim. Is a new institutional means of communication, which is usually done on mobile media (trains, cars ...) and stationary (walls, shutters ...) playful, political, etc.
The curious thing is that the user knows that breaking the law so they always tend to use pseudonyms or remain under the policy.
A graffiti is not limited to a "painted" a political or advertising, but are often more personal writings and statements, declarations of love, threats, challenges, emblems, etc., Seeking above all testify, shows the presence of graffiti in a particular location.
This river rises in the cities, especially in New York, specifically in the metro New York, during the decade of the eighties (opening galleries specializing in the sale, and in 1989 opened in the city's Museum of American Graffiti .) The first known figures of the graffiti were Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Keith Haring (1958-1990), which enjoyed an outstanding international reputation in their short careers.
Valencia were well known in the graffiti of the Barrio del Carmen, and although Barcelona have now also been destroyed, we see great graffiti on the wall around the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona), even came to include guided tours through the streets to show the most famous graffiti in the city.
first thing we must keep in mind is to tell a tag a graffiti . Most graffiti artists recognized nationally and internationally respected private property and have an artistic vision away from the famous vandalism or tags firms that perform the majority of teenagers trying to reaffirm their self-esteem. The tag if we could consider it a "painted" with a certain tone, but derogatory. While we consider graffiti to the work of urban art that interacts with the environment, respecting an aesthetic unity and a certain artistic rigor. That is, try to locate the construction site that is framed and included within the "urban landscape" is a plastic composition, looking thoughtful, objective, well-built desire, bound and distributed, usually in a grid that consistency and form, creating a stable organized and harmonized with the environment.
This new artistic movement is accompanied by a current aesthetics. We emphasize the rhythm, which gives us the music of protest-HIP-HOP ", or clothing, most dressed in baggy clothes that allow more convenience when it comes to paint, wide and long, where the cap or hooded sweatshirts become in great complement to the time of going unnoticed. Without forgetting the bike and skate
that are always present to facilitate the escape when run.
The graffiti artists practice an art where improvisation and speed are essential. It is an art of risk due to conditions in which they work at the time of painting. I mean, awkward postures, the smell and the toxic level of sprays, to the lighting and the little time available.
can be performed alone or in combination, most graffiti artists tend to improvise on the location and the space you have but they always have a preconceived idea of \u200b\u200bwhat they intend to capture.
Keep in mind that the moment is the environment that gives them life.
The materials used tend to be mainly three: the aerosol sprays and fat felt tip that helps to frame or define, as in the graffiti is highlighted and emphasized a lot, which highlights the graphical syntax . Open syntax, which was reorganized, changing, lively, ultimately, alive.
unlike the graffiti painters easel used throughout the body and would also J. Pollock (1912-1956) at the time of painting, back, hip, knee, ankle, foot, arms, hands .... that blend with the rhythm of music creating what today might be considered a performance .
graffiti stand in the spot colors with which they try to form different levels by way of perspective and contrast elements thanks to the play of colors and shapes influenced by the comic, caricature and manga drawings.
is very common combination of image and writing, ie, the image always seems to be accompanied by a written message and a signature claiming and conquer territory. It aims to spread a message. For this reason, we can also relate the graffiti art of calligraphy.
Although like everything else, graffiti evolves and gradually disappears from the streets and settles in prestigious galleries. Today, national and international dare I say, several graffiti artists as
The negre xupet , leaving the streets and begin to market their art. Gone are the nightly serenades spray in hand to make way for what he sees as LOGOART.
is to expand, to communicate and be recognized, and there is nothing easier to recognize that the same image-a logo, as a brand. The xupet negre weaves the world of graphic design, to advertising, creating your own character who repeats a thousand colors, influenced by the signals.
In case, the graffiti is an aggressive, so, negre xupet The commonly used soft pastel colors and a theme with a symbol nonviolent racist such as pacifier. According to him, the pacifier is an object used by all when we are young that knows no boundaries, recognizing children and adults, and which may identify millions of people.
Without ever forgetting his signature, because that's what gives it strength and identity: xupakí!
sprays abandoned home for the famous brand sprays Montana, that sponsor, and left the urban world, loud and contentious birthing graffiti by the tranquility of the mountains which is dedicated to snowboarding and painting graffiti banner advertisements on quietly abandoned.
negre xupet himself had little by little began to market his art capturing it on shirts, stickers ... that spread and spread under the same symbol or logo, verbal and iconic.
But without doubt, one of our graffiti is more international in nature SUSO 33, who also exhibits in galleries today. His work goes beyond mere street art, so we can relate to performance. His work builds a relationship between what is inside and outside the public space between sculpture and graffiti. It is an art of occasion, the moment, not memory, therefore is a continuing evolution ...
If you want to know more about these artists just have to visit their websites:
www.elxupetnegre.com / /
www.suso33.com or consult some books about graffiti, you advise:
Barcelona graffiti 1000 (2005) by Rosa Puig Torres,
The skin of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bGraffiti and Murals (2006) by Juan Jose Fernandez,
Street 'Art (2005) by Louis Bou, etc.
Continuing the cycle of Cultural Days of the report, conducted Tuesday a new activity under the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice. This time, Dictatorship and the theme was football and the discussion revolved around the World '78. 
