Graffiti in Brazil and Political Protests - Part 1 PART 1 The culture of any country changes as time passes. Sometimes what is seen as morally wrong, becomes acceptable, what serves for one purpose becomes used for another, and so on. The urban art called graffiti is a strong example with this dynamic, as both The Economist1, a British magazine that's more-than-100-years-old, and Time Out2, another British periodic, registered how the now called art gained the actual high profile status. Despite the UK's focus of the essays, the situation is pretty much the same in the big cities in the western-world: Graffiti has become popular and valuable. I would like to highlight, however, that in Brazil this art is often used as a means of political protests. Graffiti in Brazil can be seen in many places and serves for many purposes as Young3 registered and for me one of the most interesting thing about Brazilian Graffiti is that it is used many times to protest about political issues. The rise of graffiti and how it transforms itself from simple tags to visual elements identified as art in the country followed the same patter as any where in the world and Young also write about this journey. This year Brazil hold the most important sports event in the world, the World-Futbol-Cup and how the politicians spent money to have all the necessary facilities ready for the games were heavily criticised. And Graffiti artists were also involved in the protests painting many walls about this theme as Huffington post published4. To deeper represent my argument of how deeply involved in political protests are urban artists, I chose to analyse a photo of piece of graffiti painted by the Brazilian renouned artists, Os Gemeos. In a plain grey wall under a highway, the artists write and draw a very simple, yet powerful message. Each of the three elements in the picture bring a specific message and interacting together in the same painting they, in some sense, represent the political scenario of Brazil.