This document compares and contrasts graffiti and murals. It defines graffiti as informal inscriptions or paintings, often with political or social messages, created without permission on street furniture or walls. Graffiti originated in the 1960s in New York and is one element of hip hop culture. It uses tags, bright colors, and stylized lettering. Murals are large sanctioned images painted on walls that tell stories through backgrounds, details, and characters. Unlike graffiti, murals have an educational purpose and contain narratives through monumental, compositional images.

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2. Graffitti vs mural
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3. What is Graffiti?
It's called graffiti (taken from
the Italian plural word graffiti, graffire) or
painted to various forms of inscription
or painting, usually on street furniture. The
Royal Academy of Spanishdesignated as
"graphite" graffiti particular, and
its corresponding plural is "graffiti".
Also called graffiti to the inscriptions on
walls that have remained since the time of
the Roman Empire.

4. Characteristics
The result of painting signs on the
walls, often political or social content,
with or without the permission of the
owner of the property, and the sign or
set of signs of that naturethat have
been painted in one place.
Graffiti expression is also used to refer
to the art movement of the same
name.

5. Characteristics
Its origin in the twentieth century.
It was a movement started in 1960 in NewYork, or, according
to literature sources referas getting from the underground, in
Philadelphia.
Graffiti is one of the four basic elements of hip hop
culture, which is called graffiti graphor a specific type.
It has brillant colors and tags.

6. Tagging
A tag or taggers ("tag") is
practically a signature or an
acronym of a person or a group
ofpeople, usually Crews.
For tags with the name of the Crew are commonly used
abbreviations or simply acronyms. Although
a tag comprises much more than just a signature, is a
way of expressing a own style with a nickname or alias.

7. In many parts of world the street art is illegal, and in
many cases do not finish to realize graffiti
on their entirety, that is when the tag enters utility, a
quick and little rough style to express a moment of "spray
paint". This is how you identify a "graffiti"

8. What is a mural?
A mural is an image used as a wall or
wall support. Is produced withbackground, details
and characters. Type or graphic pictorial
composition performed on a wall, can be al fresco,
tempera, acrylic,etc.. Painting or relief made ​in
the wall. The murals are pages thatillustrate the
life of the protagonists of the story.

9. The mural is a form of expression and communication that
achievesimpact entire communities because
these directly to indirectly, relate toissues whose content is
clear and deeply cultural. The murals are
perpetuated situations, characters to symbols that identify
with the traditions and cultural traditions of peoples
to peculiarities of everyday life with which people identify.

10. Characteristics
Mural painting usually has
a decorative nature of
architecture, but also
serves educational purposes.
Unlike the billboard, the
mural should contain a
narrative.
Therefore, is said to be like a
film still.Monumentality, which
not only is given by the size of
the wall butcompositional image
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11. The human figure is not shown
in the drawings but full-length cut and viewed
from different points. The size of
the main human figures of the composition is
no less than the height of a normal (small
figuresmonumental and lose no physical
relationship to the observer). The composition
of the mural is linked to the viewer's vision,
which may be mobile or static depending on
the character of the site.

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