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Did you know that in this town of Baix Llobregat, Cornellà, in the province of Barcelona, there is a Street Art route?… Well, we are going to discover it in this edition of the PhotoFlash of the Readers’ Photos from La Vanguardia.
Street art, or urban art, is a very recent form of artistic expression. These are paintings, usually large in size, that are often done on walls or facades of city buildings and carry some reference to the society that inhabits them.
While it is true that there are precedents in our history. In Paleolithic cave art, mural paintings were already being created, or messages were already being conveyed on the walls of buildings in the Roman Empire, but the concept of Street Art is more modern.
Urban art has its origins mainly in large cities, often in multicultural environments.
They usually deal with general interest topics, coexistence, integration, family, feelings… and their goal is to convey a message.
It is a type of art that is more spontaneous, more free, often without economic interest and without the pursuit of recognition.
Although increasingly, many of these works generate great interest and we come to recognize some urban artists, such as Bansky.
It’s not just about the graffiti we used to see a few years ago, signatures and scribbles that dirtied and marred the shutters and walls of shops. Nowadays, many local businesses also use graffiti to decorate and promote their establishment.
In the case of Cornellà, being a large urban area with different neighborhoods, there are many public spaces that have been transformed thanks to the contribution and promotion by the City Council.
From the same Cornellà City Council website, you can download the map showing the location of the city’s main murals.
Some urban spaces are given over to local artists to showcase their art, transforming dull and dark spaces into colorful and vibrant passageways.
The bus station, the facade of the Auditorium, the Cornellà Centre tram station, the train station, bridges, facades, school walls, murals on some buildings… are some of the places that have been changing their image to a more cheerful and fun one.
Local artists, such as the painter Pilar Ruiz Palacios or Marta Rossell, or the FAC (Artistic Factory of Cornellà), are the authors of some of the works. In the case of the tram stop, it was the artist Mur0ne who painted the more than 1,600 square meters of the station in 2020.
An authentic open-air museum, more ephemeral because it is subject to the elements or vandalism, but some of the drawings or paintings are true works of art.
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