Sao Paulo Street Art

São Paulo is the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Hemisphere. The city has been extraordinarily developed in 1940-1980s and quickly transformed from a relatively small town to a multimillion city (currently in Sao Paulo live about 20 million inhabitants) . Because of the huge migration inflow the architecture of the city was suffering. High-rise housing and office buildings were built in haste, without attention to the design, without construction of the beautiful architectural ensembles. As a result, Sao Paulo has grown into one of the most ugly, gray and comfortless cities in the world. The graffiti in São Paulo is a totally spontaneous side effect of lack of public spaces for leisure activity. Many young people from the suburbs created a unique visual identity, including internationally recognized, mixing painting techniques of U.S. street art with regional Brazilian culture. Street art originated in Sao Paulo at the end of the 70s, and today many critics consider Sao Paulo as a world's graffiti capital. In the city live and work dozens of talented artists every day creating new works. This story is about the interaction of graffiti and daily life of Sao Paulo.