Comments on: Pixação: As real as it gets

By: Kai Lo

Kai Lo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:39:58 +0000

Wow.. tagging the art gallery takes some balls. Never mess with graffiti artists!

-Kai Lo

By: Zack!

Zack! — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:26:02 +0000

From a purely formal perspective, I don’t think that you could find a more interesting phenomena as Pixacao. As one site that I recently read (also, recently forgot) put it…”it [pixacao] represents a break from the NY style of graffiti…” Making the point that pretty much everywhere else in the world–yes, the world–you can trace their graff back to the late 70’s–early 80’s wild style, etc. In Brazil, you have something completely original.
Second, perhaps as a salve to those who can’t stand the tagging but love the bigger pieces: just give it time. A lot of those tags you hate will eventually grow into the murals you love. Consider it an investment in the future.

By: French Property

French Property — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:09:02 +0000

Interesting film. I don’t think the art is so much in the tagging itself but in the placement of the tags, in the fact that somone has scaled a tower block to place their mark somewhere that is quite inaccessible.

By: Imobiliarias Rio de Janeiro

Imobiliarias Rio de Janeiro — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:22:34 +0000

I am from Brazil too and the situation is really like you told. Cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are completely tagged like that and people in general became very frustrated seeing that while they are going and coming from work.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:07:32 +0000

I have not seen much street art in my town. Small town actually. Whenever I travel to Chicago or Detroit, I always see it though. I never knew much about, and glad I just learned some new things.

By: Market blurring line between graffiti and art | Texas Real Estate

Market blurring line between graffiti and art | Texas Real Estate — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:54:12 +0000

[...] the complete other end of the graffiti spectrum, check out this excellent short video discussion (less than 4 minutes, SFW) of “Pixação,” a specific style of graff writing practiced [...]

By: real estate florianopolis

real estate florianopolis — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:31:12 +0000

Oh yeah! A large number of streets in big cities here in Brazil are dirty with this kind of “art”. The most higher you make your “art”, more respect you obtain from the group.

By: Emerson of Montreal

Emerson of Montreal — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:56:17 +0000

Call me a prude, but I hate the idea of ‘tagging.’ I can’t believe someone tagged over that graffeti museum. Is there not some kind of code amoung taggers and graffeti artists that prevent this from happinning?

By: Markus Branchenbuch

Markus Branchenbuch — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:42:57 +0000

Yeah it was interesting to see this video, but i think tagging is not graffiti art.

By: bergen county real estate

bergen county real estate — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:11:29 +0000

That was pretty intresting. I am kind of new at looking at street art, so I learned a ton, thanks for posting.