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Sometimes referred to as “visual pollution,” pichação is a style of graffiti lettering that has become a defining part of the urban landscape of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s mega-city and business capital. It’s not art — neither street art nor “graffiti art” — but the style has a distinctive identifiable typographic aesthetic that is, as a New York Times article explains, “eerily reminiscent of Scandanavia’s ancient runic writing.” Pichação is a blight on the city’s buildings, but also represents a sub-culture of underclass activism and symbolizes the struggles and social ills of the city’s poor, disenfranchised populations in the face of Brazil’s increasing economic prosperity. The Times has produced a short-form video doc about it that’s worth checking out.
Parfois appelé «pollution visuelle», pichação est un style de lettrage graffiti qui est devenu un élément déterminant du paysage urbain de São Paulo, Brésilméga-ville et capitale économique. Ce n’est pas l’art - ni art, ni de la rue ”l’art du graffiti” - mais le style est une esthétique distinctive typographiques identifiablesqui est, comme le New York Times explique, “rappelle étrangement l’écriture runique Scandanavia ancienne.” Pichação est un fléau sur les bâtiments de la ville, mais représente également une sous-culture de militantisme sous-prolétariatet symbolise les luttes et les maux sociaux des pauvres de la ville, les populationsprivées de leurs droits dans le visage du Brésil à la prospérité économique croissante. Le Times a publié un court-doc sous forme de vidéo à ce sujet qui vaut la peine de vérifier.
とも呼ばれる”視覚公害、”pichaçãoはサンパウロ、ブラジルの巨大都市とビジネスの資本の都市景観の定義の一部となっている落書きのレタリングのスタイルです。それは芸術ではない - ストリートアートも”グラフィティアート”のどちらも -が、スタイルはNew York Timesの記事で説明するように、、ある独特の識別可能な文字体裁の美学がある”Scandanaviaの古代のルーン文字を書いている不気味に思い出させるの。” Pichaçãoは、市内の建物の上に枯れていますが、また下層階級運動のサブカルチャーを表し、ブラジルの増加、経済繁栄の面における都市の貧困層、選挙権を剥奪された集団の闘争と社会悪を象徴する。タイムズは、チェックアウトする価値があるそれについての短い形式のビデオのdocを生産している。
French street artist JR has been painting giant eyes on the sides of the hillside favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The effect is that the perched shantytowns appear to be staring out at the city’s affluent high condos nearby. See more images on the Urban Revival Blog.
This is a great little video clip — a mini-documentary — on Os Gemeos, the twin brothers from Sao Paulo who are the international superstars of Brazilian street art. The video has a short interview with the Os Gemeos bros while they were in New York for a big gallery show. There is also an appearance in the clip from Jeffrey Deitch, the influential art-world impressario and owner of the New York gallery showing the work, Deitch Projects.
Love this painted street art work on what appears to be an electric or phone utility box across from beautiful, ultra-chic Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The cartoon-like style of this work is vaguely reminiscent of the work British illustrator Jamie Hewlett did for the band Gorillaz and the comic book Tank Girl.
Another video of Brazilian graffiti ad street artists Difre and TiTo at work putting up a huge mural. This on is in Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
