12/11/2022 0 Comments Sketch 84 greffiti paintingsThis dissertation explores the socio-cultural-historical and artistic influences leading to the incorporation of pre-Columbian imagery in contemporary Mexican Street Art and the function it serves in that context. In particular it explores and compares the street narrative of politicized or authoritarian Minsk, Budapest, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow, four cities where graffiti and street art offer a voice to the voiceless and a medium for the suffocated. This paper explores the use of graffiti and street art within the post-Soviet region and post-Communist Europe. This research project analyzes contemporary graffiti not only as a popular public aesthetic, but also as a mouthpiece of political sentiment. An art of satirical discourse, graffiti anonymously communicates the frank narrative of a city, uninhibited by official censors. Graffiti reclaims the corporate-dominated public space as a place for sharing banned information, promoting ignored causes, discussing society’s ills, and even mobilizing the public for a certain aim. An anonymous and untraceable art, graffiti freely criticizes everything that the mainstream media does not and perhaps cannot. As a result, those wishing to express their political sentiment or influence public discourse are forced to seek out alternative avenues of expression. In authoritarian states, opposition movements and members of civil society lack unrestricted and uncensored access to the mainstream media and subsequently to the public sphere.
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