Madrid’s Graffiti
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During a four-day stay in Spain’s capital city, what immediately struck us was the proliferation of graffiti (admittedly not in the chi-chi shopping precincts). But this was graffiti elevated to real funky street art. When I delved a little further, it was fascinating to learn about La Movida Madrileña, a spontaneous creative movement that swelled after the death in 1975 of dictator Francisco Franco.
During a four-day stay in Spain’s capital city, what immediately struck us was the proliferation of graffiti (admittedly not in the chi-chi shopping precincts). But this was graffiti elevated to real funky street art. When I delved a little further, it was fascinating to learn about La Movida Madrileña, a spontaneous creative movement that swelled after the death in 1975 of dictator Francisco Franco. As an authoritarian rightist, he’d censured the media and repressed the culture and language of Spain’s Basque and Catalán regions. So Madrid was ripe for an explosion of creative expression, and graffiti was, among the younger generation, a means of making their voices heard, even if this started off merely as tagging. The spray painting slowly became more artistic, and eventually won over the citizens of Madrid who’d initially been unhappy with this “grunge” artform.
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