PICHAÇÃO COMO PROCEDIMENTO ARTÃSTICO

Abstract

Street Art became a strong culturalmanifestation during the last thirty years, creating apersonal language and establishing itself into the art market.However, recognizing this practice as an art form is still aparadox because it reaches problematic points. ThePichação  comes to the viewer's eyes without permission,inserts itself almost naturally into the urban context, and insome cases camouflages as it was already part of thearchitecture. What is intended in this paper is not tocatalogue the different styles found in the streets in aCartesian way, but supply a denser and impartial readingabout this practice and also reflect about how it works andunfolds.Index Terms ⎯ Art Vandalism, Graffiti, Pichação, StreetArt, Urban Intervention.