Bellas Artes
More than any other place we’ve been, Chile seems to be an open canvas for graffiti artists. In fact, I even saw posters for sale picturing the “great works” of graffiti during the military rule of the country; those graphic criticisms would’ve been more than a little risky to paint at the time.
The graffiti we came across was useful to us in that we were able to practice reading Spanish, albeit with several “colloquialisms” which went beyond our language classes. Still, there was a definite artistic flair to the things we saw, more than just the average tagging. Anyhow, these were some of my favourites:
