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Sarah Dilorenzo, Associated Press Appear 6:30 p.m. ET March 26, 2017
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Street Art By Akn - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Street-art and Graffiti ... | sao paulo brazil graffiti street artThe ambassador of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s attack to acrylic over artery murals as allotment of a beautification attack is animated by some, while others say a bright allotment of the city’s burghal character is actuality sacrificed to a business-oriented agenda.(Photo: Andre Penner / AP)
Sao Paulo — Back completed in 2015, the mayor’s appointment hailed the graffiti panels forth Avenida 23 de Maio as Latin America’s better amphitheater mural — 70 works of artery art addition for added than 3 afar forth a artery abutting a flush commune with the burghal center.
Then this January, they were corrective over.
It wasn’t done by vandals or added graffiti artists, as about happens with artery art, but by sanitation workers acting on the orders of Sao Paulo’s new mayor, Joao Doria, a millionaire agent and above host of “The Apprentice Brazil.” The ambassador alike donned a brace of orange coveralls and wielded a aerosol gun to put a attenuate band of gray acrylic over the murals — angering bodies who advised the paintings allotment of the city’s cultural ancestry and sparking a agitation about what is art and what should be protected.
Removal of the murals was amid the aboriginal acts of Doria’s “Pretty City” campaign: a traveling bazaar of artery cleaners and aliment workers who install new debris cans, bulb trees, aces up debris and awning up graffiti about Sao Paulo every weekend. Doria says the ambition is not aloof to apple-pie up Sao Paulo but to restore Paulistanos’ pride in their hometown.
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Street art and graffiti walls in New York City — Page 54 | sao paulo brazil graffiti street artMany in Sao Paulo accept animated the attack for aiming at a broadly abhorred appearance of artery art accepted as “pichacao” — a about monochromatic, rune-like calligraphy accoutrement barrio beyond the city. Doria’s administering has added fines for pichacao, is installing cameras to bolt practitioners, and encourages everyone, abnormally auto drivers, to address it.
But best Brazilians accomplish a acumen amid pichacao — acquired from the Portuguese chat for tar — and the bright and aesthetic artery paintings they alarm “graffiti.” The closing are abundantly tolerated, about acclaimed and broadly apparent as affiliated to Sao Paulo’s burghal identity.
Many advised the murals on 23 de Maio a advertise for Brazil’s active graffiti art, and Doria’s accommodation to acrylic over all but a few affected a assumption about what can be absent back cities abate austere areas.
Some of Doria’s critics tie the cleanup attack to added genitalia of his business-oriented agenda: a privatization plan to advertise off burghal stadiums and accessible bids for concessions in accessible parks as able-bodied as an accomplishment to abate the battered downtown, an important canvas for pichacao.
“This is not aloof about a action adjoin pichacao,” said Marcio Siwi, a doctoral applicant at New York University who studies art, architectonics and urbanism in Sao Paulo. “This is bigger than that. This is about bringing acquirement into the burghal in a way that’s actual controversial.”
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Graffiti: Batman's Alley, Sao Paulo—AMAZING! | NewYorker-2-Carioca | sao paulo brazil graffiti street artOther cities accept waged agnate campaigns. The ambassador of Lima, Peru, in 2015 ordered the painting over of murals accustomed by his antecedent and was showered with complaints from artists and architects who said the murals had reclaimed a battered area. New York has abundantly won its war to banish the graffiti that already covered alms cars — an art appearance several graffiti artists in Brazil accept cited as afflatus — but abounding New Yorkers protested back the buyer of a Queens barn accepted as 5Pointz, which had become a altar to graffiti art, corrective over its murals in 2013 advanced of its demolition.
Sao Paulo has approved to apple-pie up pichacao before, but it has additionally continued accustomed its artery art, with alike the city’s own tourism agency alms it up as a allotment of the “real,” abrasive city. One law alike calls for graffiti to be admired and adequate — as continued as it is done with permission. Pichacao, though, is consistently advised illegal.
“Street art in Sao Paulo is a postcard for Sao Paulo,” said Eduardo Kobra, an artisan who started out in pichacao and is now arrive to acrylic murals in cities worldwide.
The abatement of the 23 de Maio murals sparked a protest, and tweets flew with before-and-after pictures. Juca Ferreira, who oversaw the painting of the murals back he was the city’s secretary of culture, said in a Facebook column that the new mayor’s bulletin is: “Art alone for the elite.”
Confusing abounding people, Doria has back said he wants to advance artery art. But his appointment says admiral removed the murals because some were covered in picahcao and others had base over time.
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The Colorful Street Art of São Paulo, Brazil | sao paulo brazil graffiti street artJuliana Serafim Francisco, a actinic architect who angry up to analysis out a contempo “Pretty City” airing led by the mayor, said the burghal was appropriate to abolish the murals, acquainted that graffiti is by its attributes temporary.
“The graffiti wasn’t able-bodied taken affliction of. It’s prettier now,” Serafim said as Doria adjourned a capital in the city’s center. In general, she thinks the “Pretty City” attack is accepting big after-effects after spending too much.
Doria has now promised a “museum of artery art” to advertise authorized, abreast adjourned murals by artists called by an absolute committee.
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