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Located right at the corner of Hai Ba Trung and Nguyen Dinh Chieu streets (HCMC), it used to be a luxurious, eye-catching branded fashion store. However, it has now become a parking lot and the glass door outside is now covered with ugly, dirty graffiti.
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| Beautify the city with murals (left), instead of sloppy graffiti (right) |
It is true that the style of drawing and scribbling on blank surfaces is commonly called graffiti - a visual art genre, or more simply, graffiti. However, these drawings have damaged the image and inherent meaning of this art form. Right on Hai Ba Trung Street, many vacant premises have become the landing place of "garbage" products, commonly called graffiti. Not only roller shutters, glass doors, and walls are ideal places for graffiti, transformer stations are also smeared with drawings.
The ugly images in the Hai Ba Trung area are also easily seen when walking along many streets, this type of drawing is everywhere. But the most ideal "landing place" besides empty houses is under bridges, construction sites surrounded by corrugated iron, bus shelters... As long as there is a blank wall, these drawings will appear naturally. The peak was probably when the metro train at Long Binh depot (Thu Duc City) was graffitied before it could even go into operation.
Also street art, but if you have the opportunity to admire the murals on the walls, facades of apartment buildings, alleys in Ho Chi Minh City, you will find them truly beautiful and meaningful. Built in the 1990s and stained with time, the two murals on the facade of apartment buildings 1A - 1B Nguyen Dinh Chieu (Da Kao ward, District 1) especially attract passersby. With bright colors and funny images, it makes the old apartment building seem to be wearing a new coat, completely different from the adjacent houses. Also located on Nguyen Dinh Chieu street, the old villa number 48, the side of which is on Mai Thi Luu street, has also become a unique miniature landscape with vivid images. The villa and the whole street corner seem to have a new vitality.
In Ho Chi Minh City, there are alleys with murals that many people remember by name. The most famous is the mural alley on Nguyen Khoi Street (District 4) with dozens of vivid paintings, replacing the stained walls. 3-2 Street (District 10), Binh Dong Street (District 8), Pasteur Street (District 1), Huyen Tran Cong Chua Street (District 1) ... are also given new looks by murals with many different themes. Not to mention, many kindergartens, primary schools in the city, or many streets and routes are also scattered with murals. Even a train station on Nguyen Trong Tuyen Street (Phu Nhuan District) is decorated with colorful images. There are works created by the people themselves; there are alleys, neighborhoods, and murals that are the result of the mobilization, joint efforts, and consensus of the government and people with the desire to bring a new, spacious appearance to the urban landscape.
Not only beautifying the streets, many murals are also propaganda paintings that have been flexibly transformed. Many slogans about environmental protection, tree planting, disease prevention, proper waste classification, traffic reminders, etc. are cleverly integrated and vividly illustrated. And sometimes, there are even poems and musical ideas that are incorporated, making the old, ugly walls become rhyming and fluttering. There was even a period when there was a trend of decorative painting on manhole covers and electric poles. And, such works are increasingly appearing in this city.
Every art form is born with a good meaning. Beautifying life is also the way for them to exist and leave their mark. Like graffiti, it does not have an ugly appearance when it is present everywhere in this city as it is today. But real graffiti works, like those murals, appear too little. Art is not at fault, it all lies in the thoughts, consciousness and actions of the person who creates it. Art placed in the right place will increase its value. And on the contrary, it only causes disgust, even destruction. That is even more important with street art, especially graffiti.
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