You may have seen a "mural" that I posted recently to PDML under "What
have we done?".
Also, some PDMLers might remember me posting some interesting "murals"
from various places around the world.
I find that graffiti in other parts of the world are rather different from
what I've seen in the US. US graffiti is more frequently to be B&W,
and also would reflect somebody's tag, rather than being just artistic.
I might be wrong, - but in many cases graffiti in other countries
is less related to gangs (unlike in the US), and those graffiti are
more colorful (as opposed to B&W graffiti in the US).
South America seems to be one of the regions with very artistic
coloorful murals
A year ago, I saw very interesting murals in Santiago, Chile.
This year, in August, I was in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a conference,
and was lucky to see some amazing murals, most (starting from the 4th) on
the last day, just a few hours prior to the departure:
http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsGraffiti/
The photos #2 and #3 are mosaic murals from one of subway stations,
the rest are from the streets.
What's amazing is that some of them are several (up to 5 or 6!) stories
high.
All comments are welcome.
Igor
PS. I just found this article on ABC-news that confirms my observations:
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7697519
I especially like the story near the bottom of the 2nd page about
a policeman "commissioning" an artist to draw on his house's wall.
Also, I just found that a few people/agencies offer street art tours
in BsAs:
http://buenosairesstreetart.com/tours/
http://graffitimundo.com/
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