“STREET ART and SOCIAL MOVEMENTS”

Throughout history, street art has been used as a form of social commentary for those have no input or control of the media. It is an illegal, primal way of communicating social concerns or revealing one’s point to a large audience.

PARIS, 1968…

With the student and worker’s revolt of May and June of that year came a surge of street art, while France sat on the brink of a revolution. Protest wasn’t just the marches and picket signs. It was the representation of the plight faced by workers and students, fixed onto buildings throughout Paris by use of graffiti.

SOUTH AFRICA, 1970s-1980s…

With the swell of youth uprising against the apartheid in late 1970s South Africa came a revolution aided by street art. Though forbidden, anti-apartheid propaganda soared in popularity. People of South Africa joined together to visually present the oppressive world in which they live.

SOURCE:

http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2009/02/street_art_and_social_movement.html