Grafitti as an Art expression in the Urban Landscape

Abstract

We seeked to understand the process of acquisition of territory and urban landscape by the experimental art and its social character of graffiti, taking as a starting point their incursion into the geography of contemporary cities. We looked for changes in the cultural landscape of the city of Sao Paulo by the insertion of graffiti, particularly the landscape of areas involving forgotten spaces in order to grasp and understand the concept and action relating to that significant street art. A closer look at the behavior and procedures of urban tribes has been done to better understand their viewpoints on the different conditions of life in big capitalist cities, on festivals, on gatherings, their search and choice of sites for graffiti's. And also on the legal experiences in the outdoor lab where their art is denoted as illegal, although it denounces almost invisible social injustices. Those walks through the city of São Paulo were a colorful and pictural rediscovery of these brave and unavoidable acts of intervention.