Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Lecture 3 - Graffiti/ Street Art Lecture Notes

The word graffiti means to scratch and comes from the latin “graffito”
Paris May 1968 –  In Post- War France there was a baby boom meaning that in the late 60's there were more students in universities and France was gradually getting richer.  May '68n saw a rise in salary by 13%.
“Nous sommes le pouvoir” – Workers and the power.
“La Chienlit c’est lui!” – loosely translates as The shithouse is here.

This website just makes it make sense: http://www.drorlist.com/mille/maidror.html

'Nous sommes le pouvoir' - We are the power









No comments:

Post a Comment