Color Communication

Mural Art: Javier Dirty aka dirty1984 
Storytelling: Oana Maroti

Transformed walls, once grey make my day.

Here Dirty brings the color. This is a painted wall by Javier Dirty aka dirty1984, which was made in Jardins de Walter Benjamin, Barcelona, where there are some walls painted by street artists. It´s practically an outdoor open ephemeral gallery that keeps changing the decoration. Javier Dirty´s home city is Hospitalet de Llobregat, therefore his work can be seen in both cities.

I took this photo during my long walk on a cloudy day, attracted by the color of the composition, and I realize now that it would be even more beautiful on a sunny day. I may not find it, because the open walls are painted regularly, but dirty1984 is a permanent presence on the streets of Barcelona I will keep an eye on his graffiti work and maybe I will change this photo, because in front of the composition, the colors are beautiful and on my phone photo, not so much.

Dirty1984, who´s younger than me 🙂 makes abstract art, colorful monsters, whose shapes might change, but the internal elements do not. It´s a color communication, open to the public that says from a distance: diversity and inclusion matter.

In Education Sciences we use color games to facilitate communication or even to give an alternative to communicate, where verbal language is lacking. Each visual artist is using a non-verbal way of communication and as can be observed in this painting, without using a single word messages can be sent.

Javier Dirty´s cute monster is smiling content with his eyes closed, fully integrated between small windows, possible astronauts that look like fingers and crayons. The composition is a sort of doodling, continuous black line frame, that also shows up in comics. With all his heart, the artist sustains diversity and inclusion, and that makes me write about his work and establish that human rights-orientated graffiti art is not so ephemeral.

¨Thinking in abstractions is considered by anthropologists, archaeologists, and sociologists to be one of the key traits in modern human behavior, believed to have developed between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. Its development is likely to have been closely connected with the development of human language, which (whether spoken or written) appears to both involve and facilitate abstract thinking.¨

Abstract art is not messy, is just another way of visual communication and it´s been present in human culture worldwide forever. It´s a process of selection, image processing connected to the language, that allows neurodivergent minds to express themselves. It´s our interest that non-verbal communication is facilitated as we understand by it a process of development, that might go from personal to social.

Stop making sense of abstract art or underground artistic efforts, understand that free expression is extremely important, and give resources and industrial spaces access to underground art to manifest and let us enjoy it.