Artistic expression of the city and its influence in painting: the case of poster and graffiti

Abstract

The following article focuses on two of the art forms of public character more present in the life of the city, to analyse the different mutual influences we can find, since its in‐ ception, between them and painting. This means contrasting the latter —a discipline with great historical tradition, considered a means of slow reproduction of image—, at an average, in principle, as the poster, which makes its appearance on the scene of the city in the eighteenth century, and other like graffiti, secondly, whose appearance we place in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Considering an overview, that brings us to the two public expressions we tried, without yet going into aesthetic considera ‐ tions, we must clarify that, in terms of two separate message in the mass media exert social can establish the cartel as a manifestation closed and objective, the service of a clearly defined commercial or ideological purpose that in most cases, has a place in‐ tended for placement, while graffiti is a more open, subjective medium and, therefore, anarchic as to its location, which brings us to the voice of urban tribes, but identifying individual expressions of certain groups that is generating the city, as indicative of the interests and fashions that move, especially younger citizens.