Enquête sur le graffiti en Chine

Abstract

This article treats essentially with the art of graffiti in the cities as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Hong-Kong. From the history of the first graffiti artist Zhang Dali, the article develops in a chronological way by revealing the development of the graffiti undertaken by the generation born after 1980, inspired essentially by the Hip-hop culture. In these limited pages, we met the different meanings from the word tuya [graffiti] in the classical and modern periods ; the large-scale marketing of the graffiti ; the graffiti as tool of the propaganda in the service of the government ; The exceptional cases when, by the graffiti, emerge certain social and political sensitive subjects and the different reactions between the Hong-Kong city and the mainland China.

Keywords

• graffiti
• street art
• art contemporain chinois