Better than the Picasso Museum? Street Art: Barcelona
Last week I waited in line for two hours to get into the Picasso museum. When I found out I had to at least wait two more, I left.
Before that, I elbowed through crowds of tourists at Park Güell to get a short glimpse of Antonio Gaudí's famous mosaics while getting nudged out of pictures with sunburnt tourists.
Barcelona is a beautiful colorful city with a lot of art history, but to see the architecture you have to fight the crowds, and to get to the museums you have to wait your turn or pay a significant entrance fee. But it seems that the famous art in the city has also inspired the local artists to create more enjoyable and free pieces for the public to view.
Street art coats the city from construction zones to shop doors, some of it tasteful, other just useless profanity, but it is all illegal.In 2006, the city outlawed all street art stating that "anyone who wants to put graffiti or paint on private property that can be seen from public places must obtain permission from the Government."
Within the city, "it is forbidden to do any kind of
graffiti, paint, writing, inscription, or scrawl with any type of material
(ink, paint, organic material or similar), or scratching the surface of any
urban element interior or exterior. This also applies to urban equipment,
military equipment, infrastructure, any element of public service such as
public transportation, trees, gardens and any other public place. The artistic
murals are permissible only if you have municipal or a proprietary
authorization."
Banksy, the famous, anonymous Bristol graffiti artist,
might be on to something saying that “your
mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid."
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