Professor Cacoilo
Art and Women
Street Artists Tackling Social Issues
Growing up, it was engrained in my conscious that street art was vandalism. My parents, teachers, and other role models always reiterated how damaging street art was for any place. Unfortunately, I grew up under that mindset and looked down upon artists who took their art beyond a piece of paper or canvas and into public space. I found out through a close relative of mine that art, specifically graffiti, symbolizes unwritten rules and freedom of expression. Before this class, I dreaded having to learn about paintings from the Middle Ages, thinking that there was nothing important analytical about them. Professor C soon pointed out how art is a resemblance of societal norms, exclusively the inequality between men and women. I have come to realize how powerful and beautiful graffiti art can be. When female artists show the capability to compete in a male dominated area, it proves that women have a voice and their art can make a change.
Being Hispanic made me want to focus on Latin American graffiti artists who use it as a catalyst to bring awareness. Many of them use their work to focus on the female position in South American culture, attempting to bring light to the hardships they go through. Latin American countries have become a thriving scene for graffiti art. I decided to showcase the brave women who use their artistic skills as a political outcry through a Tumblr blog called GraffitiQueens.
The artists featured are from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina. I hope to include more Latin American countries as my blog grows. Graffiti is mesmerizing and takes even more vision as huge murals are part of many artists' portfolios. Graffiti allows voices to be seen in the masses as many people face these artworks on their way to work, school, or recreational purposes. They cannot be ignored. These artists have given LIFE to many grey cities and are pushing for change, wall by wall.
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