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Shanghaiist: Reload Your Style: Graffiti art in Shanghai
Graffiti and urban art have always, at their cores, been intimately tied
to the human condition. Today, in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, bids of
“it’s time to go” are scrawled on buildings near the dictator’s home.
In tattered Lebanon, chimera-chasing artists spray images of carefree
children flying kites on Beirut’s bombed walls. In Northern Ireland’s
blood-bathed tug-of-war, both Republican and Loyalist camps produce
iconographic murals to mark their territories. Even in politically
stable climates, urban art is telling of present social reality. After
all, art pursued purely in aestheticism’s noble name is an indulgence
afforded only once certain degrees of social, economic and political
comfort have been met.
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