“How Painting Can Transform Communities.”
In the most famous beach in the world, we are brought to the works of Haas and Hahn on how a painting is capable of transforming communities. Near Rio, there exists a community known as Vila Cruzeiro, and most news that emerges from there is usually not good news. In their TED talk, they are most interested about life in the favelas. The communities where they toured had buildings that people had constructed with their own hands without a major masterplan, as compared to Holland, where everything constructed as planned. Where they sat, the whole countryside of Vila Cruzeiro looked disorderly, and this brought out the idea of plastering and painting. According to Haas and Hahn, if the painting had been done, then everything could have appeared orderly in all aspects. This took them directly to artworks, and normally nobody could allow such a display in Vila Cruzeiro. Three houses picked in the center of their community was the epicenter of artworks. Therefore, through the works of art and painting, we can say that the world’s most impoverished communities can be empowered, ideas can be created quickly amongst people working together, and what seems impossible can easily turn in to possibility(Haas & Hahn, 2014).
In my view, Haas and Hahn wanted individuals to know of how paintings and artworks were instrumental in the outlook of various things. Their first design was that of a boy flying a kite and appeared good as far as artworks were concerned. After the artwork of painting a building blue, the “notorious slum began appearing like an open-air gallery. “All these painting works were accomplished through the efforts of Geovani, Robinho, and Vitor.
Sketches and models were the first steps in painting work, according to the two. A design was made for Santa Marta, and everything appeared to be progressive through people’s support. Therefore, within a month, the people of Santa Marta had transformed what looked formless and bad into beautiful scenery worth admirable. The image went all over the world, depicting how artwork, as well as the painting, was instrumental in the outlook of places. This played a great role with the Philadelphia Mural Arts program calling to inquire whether the idea they had could work in North Philly. Being an interesting challenge, they were not sure whether the idea could work, but their answer was yes. This means that they had to look for a way of becoming more creative in looking for ideas as far as their artwork was concerned. Through barbecuing, everything appeared to be real exactly in the same manner as they had done in Rio. They made individual designs with building owners, a team of almost a dozen young men and women, and this created the spirit of teamwork with the neighborhood and the people themselves. Through being trained, they were able to make a transformation of their own neighborhood. The whole street just appeared like a giant artwork of color, making the place appealing to the eye(Haas & Hahn, 2014).
Therefore, as can be reckoned above, the initiative of the two artists was essentially the Favela Painting. By application of the similar logic of growth that is improvised, like the slums, the Favela painting has proven to be an artistic intervention that is community-driven, having transformed slums and neglected neighborhoods of Philadelphia and Haiti into works of art that later on appeared to be prideful.
According to Haas and Hahn, the transformations appeared to be impossible without putting in to place the community’s support. Thus, at the beginning of each project, the two artists were seen to host barbecues through their learning that food entailed the heart of the community. Through artwork, therefore, everything that seems impossible has the capability of becoming possible in a concise manner(Haas & Hahn, 2014).
References
Haas & Hahn (Directors). (2014). How Painting Can Transform Communities [Motion Picture].