Graffiti

According to the Oxford's Dictionary graffiti is "writing or drawing scribbled, scratched or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place". According to Encyclopedia Brittannica graffiti is " form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group". Most of time is used to express thoughts, disagreements, opinions about something, This is a kind of pacific protest in many cases. The majority of graffiteros don´t use a original name, they use a nickname. These nicknames will identify them on the rest of their drawings as a signature. 

In my opinion Graffiti is a way that a group of society have to express themselves felling free, like an art expression, is a wake-up call for citizens to see whats happening, that other people feel the same as you, i think they want that other also can feel identificated with them. There are some groups that are focus in political issues like "Marcha Patriotica" and there are others that are focus in love and poetry like " Acción Poética", so there are groups for all likes. If you want to know more about this topic, down here are the pages that i read before do this post. 

Graffiti. In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved from http://oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles_americano/graffiti

graffiti. (2013). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/240670/graffiti

Jimenez, M. (2012). Graffiti. Retieved from http://graffitibarranquilla.blogspot.com/