Graffiti: art or discomfort youth?
Graffiti and tags: a widespread phenomenon in the city, sometimes considered art, sometimes pure vandalism. But what are the traps for the unwary phenomena that often lead to these forms of expression?
Graffiti: Artistic expression or vandalism? It is not so easy to answer this question, because the choice involves only two options are too narrow to be able to explain a phenomenon as complex as that of writing. We talked about Dr. Louis Mastronardi.
The phenomenon of graffiti and tags If you want to analyze the psychological background of the growing phenomenon of writers, we must make a clarification between graffiti and tags: the first is a form of artistic expression through images more or less complex, while the latter are signs or signatures quickly executed with a shot of spray. Every girl or boy who joins the people of the comic-writers assume a new name and its own alphabet that distinguish it from others.
Approval and differentiation processes are behind the 'inclusion in a group of writers (called crew) is reborn with a new name, with peculiarities that are transmitted on the walls, subways, trains, etc ... The wall becomes the mirror of one's identity become, the flow of his thoughts, and that includes half says. But this is just? Not everyone who writes on the walls is graffiti, not all its members. Being part of a crew is not so easy and obvious. You have to have characteristics consistent with those of other group members special not only physical but also cultural and social. About
affix signatures on the walls just painted on buildings or shops gives sign of disrespect and often not worth the estimate of the true artists of the aerosol, or those who design the walls with spray cans. In this case the writing is an expression of emptiness, of someone who has nothing better to do, and if this happens to a young, indicates a very sad of a personal hardship that, if extended, may become social problems. A form of personal communication that is an act of self-affirmation and transgression at the same time. Graffiti tag on
and communicative value of graffiti and slogans that often accompany them many semiotic and communication scholars agree, but then where does the tag? Leave their signature is a way of saying I exist, I have been here and left a mark that will make me remember and identify with my new identity. An unequivocal request for attention in a society too busy and distracted.
This phenomenon must be added the "poets of the walls", ie those who write words of love beneath the houses or places of common love for their "band". This expression probably comes from a disruptive want to shout to the world their feelings, to unload their feelings and fears and to overcome shyness to say the same thing face to face. Communicative urgency, often intimate and focused on one person, who can not and does not want wait letter, phone call, e-mail, sms, mms, nothing more. The "voices" who "cry" on the walls can arise from an aesthetic, or merely from a psychological need to show off, to delimit the territory or to show the world that "I am here and I can." The main difference lies in the end: the "real" writers are not looking for the thugs and aesthetic landscaping of degraded areas, or the communication of messages of protest, the "poets of the walls" do not care about the beauty of the product, because the their is only one form of communication for its own sake; the expression of a need to leave traces of itself. This emphasizes the aspect of self-centered the "doodle" on the walls.
You can write on the walls for many different reasons: to relieve tension, to talk about, to challenge the illegality. There is no doubt that the tags and writing on the wall there is a signal of distress and difficulty in expression through the canonical means of communication. Written in the inner necessity arises to talk about, to manifest, to externalize the story that flows along the rivers of the interior. Through spray cans and you exteriorize moods such as anger, confusion and transgression, but also the happiness and love (or not paid). Experts call it the urban poor communication. Limited because of poor quality and content: The phrases lose the value of rebellion that could have in times of protest. Are no longer "lampoons" or slogans that have meaning and connotation politically or socially, I'm just impulsive outbursts and often incomprehensible.
Yet these writings tell us something: we will indicate the author to tell some of their experiences, leave it to an area to show her feelings. Perhaps the company is too busy to notice his quick change of individuals and their moods. The guys feel the need to express themselves, attract attention, vent their fears and insecurities. They want to be part of a community, of a group that protects them and gives them the chance to feel someone else: a new name is like a new identity. More mature identity, a man and not boy. In addition comes the need to emulate those who already write on the walls to feel more important and show the world different: no more children.
The transition from adolescence to adulthood is long and difficult and often the kids have the impression that no one will listen, and understand them. During the period of the development of identity begins to feel the need to reflect the image of himself, and wanting to communicate to others. There are many areas where this development takes place: First there is the family, the school and the spontaneous group; facilities for teenagers and beyond. All these opportunities for socialization and personal growth, however, have one thing in common, an essential element for human development: the group. During this period, the parental figures, and usually the adults, are not enough, and you need to set new standards similar to his. Thus began his desire to be accepted (need for affiliation) and comply with their reference group (need to belong). It 'just that during adolescence peers become the most important subject of social comparison and represent a normative reference and comparative to evaluate independently, outside the control of adults, their behavior and choices, thereby providing social support to address problems related to growth.
In adolescence is friendship, and the consensus of their peers, to be fundamental, then the normal adolescent research by a crew from which to belong and feel protected and backed. The peer group is like a "laboratory of social experimentation," is a veritable tool for emotional support and emotional, which is able to influence the social construction of reputation and visibility by the adolescent. And 'that the need a positive assessment by the peer group to which you want to belong, which is often the key concern on the part of the adolescent is transformed from anxiety to find out who you are, than to find out who you should be, part of the inner circle of the elect of that group. Imitation is born from this need to be part of a nucleus in which to feel at ease, free to express themselves without being judged.
The group is a microcosm in which "doing the dress rehearsal" to test their independence from adults, and understand who you are. In this process, adults have a very delicate role: they must be able to follow the growth of its children making themselves available for dialogue, two-way communication and equal. The inscriptions on the walls, if they are not conceived as art forms, can be an expression of discomfort, a life too strong to be silenced. would be better to discuss it instead of having to communicate on a wall.
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