If you visit Venezuela, one of the things you notice right away is the abundance of murals, and to a lesser extent graffiti. So I started wondering if we could understand and make conclusions about a people and society by looking at the images displayed on wall murals, graffiti, stencils, billboards, and public art.
So drawing from my memory, here're some lists of the images you see most often in the places I know best.
In Sweden, you see lots of graffiti and stencils with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, robots and technology, and animals such as deer and owls.
In France, the two image types that I saw, from all parts of the country, were Space Invaders and circus performers.
In the U.S., the images I remember, mostly on billboards and some as gaffiti, are Jesus Christ, baby Jesus, aborted or unaborted fetus/baby, whoever's the sitting President, and André the Giant.
And finally in Venezuela, where you can see the images, in abundance, of five men in every city of the country. They are, in order, Simon Bolivar, Hugo Chavez, Jesus Christ, Che Guevara, and John Rambo.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions about these cultures...
So drawing from my memory, here're some lists of the images you see most often in the places I know best.
In Sweden, you see lots of graffiti and stencils with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, robots and technology, and animals such as deer and owls.
In France, the two image types that I saw, from all parts of the country, were Space Invaders and circus performers.
In the U.S., the images I remember, mostly on billboards and some as gaffiti, are Jesus Christ, baby Jesus, aborted or unaborted fetus/baby, whoever's the sitting President, and André the Giant.
And finally in Venezuela, where you can see the images, in abundance, of five men in every city of the country. They are, in order, Simon Bolivar, Hugo Chavez, Jesus Christ, Che Guevara, and John Rambo.
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