Alessandra

Sorry about being slightly late with the blog! This week has been pretty hectic, as everyone has already mentioned. The assignments in class have most definately been thought provoking and forcing me to pick my brain for random ideas and memories from home. This past weekend i met my sister in rome and walking around this idea of grafiti and public self expression intrigued. I am not completely sure how to segway this idea into the assignment, because it seems almost too conceptual. What i was interested was how grafitti, this modern contemporary form of expression is specifically layered on the walls of old italian architecture. It is the idea not only of layering of different materials, but also the graphic and interesting designs that seem so personal are shown to everyone bothering to look. The question is however, how does one link such a thing to renaissance art. I feel that the form of layering on concrete reminds me of the fresca's of renaissance artists.