Favela Painting Project: Can a little paint change entrenched poverty?

Photo sourced from Mental Floss

Lots of blogs as well as magazines focused upon amicable shift have been celebrating a Favela Painting Project.

As a Mental Floss blog explained:

Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas as well as Dre Urhahn have been bringing colourful art to astonishing places with their Favela Painting [P]roject. About one-third of Rio de Janeiros population lives in favelas, urban slums overshoot with gangs as well as drugs. To prevent kids from getting caught up in a drug trade, a Favela Painting plan pays Brazils girl to create murals for their communities. As a result, armies of teenage artists have been giving their neighborhoods new facesones covered in bright, contented colors. The hope is which inside of a subsequent couple of years, a complete landscape of favelas will turn a massive work of art, drawing courtesy to a needs of a bad as well as filling a village with pride.

Koolhaas as well as Urhahn recruited locals in Rios Santa Marta favela to spend a month guidance portrayal techniques as well as transforming a gray-scale favelas in to a clear formidable which looks as if someone took a prism as well as cracked it, scattering light opposite a total favela.

The resultif we identical to coloris impressive; we can see before as well as after shots here.

The plan is identical to a larger, worldwide initiative called Lets Colour, which intends to transform grey spaces with colourful colour.

On a a single hand, these types of projects have been appealing. They leave foreigners who come in to downtrodden spaces feeling great about themselves as well as their work, great about what they can give or share with alternative people, as well as great about a connectors they have with people who live in grey spaces.

One has to cruise either these projects have been anything some-more than a do-gooders homogeneous of crack: a discerning strik! e of a f eel-good prodigy which in a future wears off.

On a alternative hand, I cant assistance but consternation what happens when a artists go home as well as a colors fade. These types of projects have been sparkling as well as even at a moment transformative, perhaps, but they dont lead to genuine amicable change. They dont solveor even unequivocally addressthe kinds of problems which crowd people in to tiny, grey concrete homes with little or no services. And even when these projects compensate a painters, as Favela Painting does, a single has to cruise either these projects have been anything some-more than a do-gooders homogeneous of crack: a discerning strike of a feel-good prodigy which in a future wears off.

What do we think? Id adore to listen to your opinions in a comments.

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