Graffiti artists brighten up Spain
A lot of people tend to see graffiti as a negative thing, as a form of pollution, something which damages or defaces our world. In Spain graffiti is an expression, a form of art, as Rosie Khdir finds out more…
As you walk down a beautiful old cobbled street in a Spanish town filled with century old buildings, it does tend to fill you with sadness when you see a spray painted word scrawled across an immaculate wall.
Northern Spain is rife with these marks, either to mark territory or to send a politically fuelled message, but recently graffiteros have been brightening up Spanish towns.
Many Southern Spanish municipalities have decided to hire such modern street artists to liven up their towns and adorn the city’s dull buildings with their colourful artwork.
This new craze has also moved to the north of the country where you can see ugly concrete walls transformed into canvases for surrealist art. Spanish artists, such as Ler, have been creating beautiful murals which are more pleasing to the eye than your average crew signature or political outcry.
Ler has taken his art all over the Europe but he is based in León and has been commissioned to decorate a number of buildings all over Spain. His commissioned pieces this year included decorating the wall of a nursery in Madrid and a high school in León.
All over Europe, people have begun to recognise graffiti as a modern art form instead of a nuisance or and authorities in Spain are now embracing it and making it a part of their society.
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Image credit: Pilar Ponte
Yes ,thats true, its what we do!
it’s hard work for us to get people to recognise our talent, but is getting there!