Streetart in Barcelona - artists or vandals?

Barcelona has a really lively street art scene. Professional street artists and redesigners bustle around this scene. People often publicly raise the question whether their work was art or not. The fact that they cannot only draw words onto surfaces but also speak words into a microphone is presented by this contribution on 2010LAB.tv.

Street art: close to the arts, facing the risk of charges

Every city dweller should have noticed the colorful signs, words and image motifs on houses, bridges and walls of his or her city. Yet who is able to read this particular language? The broad public tends to show a lack of understanding, and regards this form of art as the work of vandals.

>>>Part 2: Street art in Barcelona - art or vandalism?

External links:

• www.barcelonastreetart.net

Related links:

• Cartoons are taking over
• Dictatorship of the arts – Jonathan Meese