First Certificate Exam A- Citizenship Today
The Wall
Blanco Ferreira, Ana Clara
against the main reason of graffiti: free expression.
Sometimes graffiti also shows disagreement with what politicians are doing. They want something that the current government is not giving to society. The claims start to appear on the walls when some specific things make people uncomfortable and want these problems to disappear.
Graffiti sometimes refer to facts that happened in the past in the political life of a country. Then we see paintings intending to remark that this or that event is something that people never want to live again. For example: here in Argentina, there are plenty of graffiti showing what happened a few decades ago, when the military people took the power and governed for almost ten decades and created a huge chaos.
Graffiti also spreads political trends. Different philosophies are expressed like the anarchist movement that had the anarchist sign painted on many walls all over the world. The purpose of this is that society can look at the sign of that political