The Clash of Graffiti and Street Art

STREET ART

Firstly, this is not an academic “och scholar” approach to a book about graffiti or street art. When Christer Löfgren, extensively traveled the world, he started to collect these images. The interesting thing is, what we have in this presentation, is that when you begin to gather something, objects, art or stories, it creates fascination and it generates curiosity. We are ponded by media, governments, family, and friends about what is usually their view or their opinion. In this case, our idea is not only looking to what’s considered “best” or “famous,” instead of looking at the global and widespread effect of graffiti and street art.

The result is a magnitude of engagement, love, humor, skill, manifestation, propaganda, hate, religion, philosophy, naive and insightful expression. It is fascinating and mostly, beautiful and lovable.

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A MESSAGE To ”understand” and get the message is in the beholder. Creating is the artist’s pleasure. The artist frames an idea and brings the ‘audience’ to a different perspective and view. The content, ”the message” is the statement carrying humor, creativity, knowledge, and satire.

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copenhagen denmark

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5. ushuaia argentina

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9. venise italy

10. bayamo cuba

CAMPAIN A genre in Street Art is oriented toward the traditional partisan information based on -ism and political content. The idea is usually represented by icons like Che Guevara and Mao or Obama. The message is at the doorstep, grounded in political activism, and it is hard to know if it is art or propaganda.

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12. kiev ukraine

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29. stockholm sweden

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, reckoned from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a precise time unless a context is given.

• ARGENTINA 527

• COSTA RICA 461

• CHILE 517

• CUBA 497

• NICARAGUA 483

• CANADA 419

• UNITED STATES 429

• GREENLAND (DANISH) 58-61

• ALASKA (USA) 429

• ECUADOR 514

• BRASIL 540

• FALKLAND ISLANDS 543