Graffiti for Social Change
The general argument made by the author in the work, "Afghani Artist puts Beautiful Images on
Kabul’s Ugly Walls of War,”is that art can help change people's minds about violence and corruption. More specifically, the author argues that Kabir Mokamel and the group known as the Art Lords are using the large concrete blast walls that surround the homes of government officials and other upper class people as a canvas for paintings that speak out against corruption and violence. The author quotes Mokamel as saying, "the minute you put the stroke of a brush on a wall, that much of the wall has disappeared" (2). In this passage, the author is suggesting that the paintings created by the Art Lords helps erase the ugly reality
The general argument made by the author in the work, "Afghani Artist puts Beautiful Images on
Kabul’s Ugly Walls of War,”is that art can help change people's minds about violence and corruption. More specifically, the author argues that Kabir Mokamel and the group known as the Art Lords are using the large concrete blast walls that surround the homes of government officials and other upper class people as a canvas for paintings that speak out against corruption and violence. The author quotes Mokamel as saying, "the minute you put the stroke of a brush on a wall, that much of the wall has disappeared" (2). In this passage, the author is suggesting that the paintings created by the Art Lords helps erase the ugly reality