La etnografía como herramienta del arte callejero Bogotano

Abstract

This article deals with ethnography, understood as a tool that can help to better understand street art, referring to the work of graffiti artists in their graffiti, stencils or murals. In addition, to highlight the street art its scope in the environment of graffiti and how it has been perfected through time in the city Bogotá - Colombia. In addition, the origins of graffiti will be taken into account the enormous power that this form of art has to express messages and transform spaces, the qualification of street art has allowed monumental interventions and of great impact in a good part of the city (complete neighborhoods, of facades, main streets, bridges, walls of buildings, etc.), and the revitalization of the public space generates appropriation of the territory and consequently improves security in the place where it has been intervened. Therefore, some of the authors that delve into the subject are Armando Silva, Keith Haring, Banksy, Fernando Figueroa Saavedra, Alex Camargo Silva, Alexandra Russo, Lucas Ospina, Juan Pablo Flórez Vázquez, Sara Sáez, Pilar Portero, Custodio Pastor, Nuvia Labari among others.