Compartiendo Muros: 21 Community Murals in Madrid
Read how Madrid's 2017-2018 Compartiendo Muros program joined local artists and residents in the creation of 21 murals.
Compartiendo Muros: 21 obras construidas con los barrios de Madrid
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What you'll learn
Vocabulary for public art, participation and mural production; contrast between collective input and artistic authorship; cautious generalization.
A B2 case study of Madrid's first Compartiendo Muros edition, focusing on its participatory process, authorship and the limits of community representation.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
no consistía solo en pintar una pared
newit was not only about painting a wall
The phrase rejects an incomplete description of the project.
Useful for adding hidden dimensions to an explanation.
formaba parte del proyecto
newwas part of the project
It says that an activity belonged to the project itself.
Useful for defining the scope of a process.
detrás hay decisiones colectivas
newbehind it are collective decisions
The visible result hides earlier decisions and work.
Useful for explaining an unseen process.
a primera vista
newat first sight
It describes an immediate impression before closer attention.
Useful for contrasting first impressions with deeper reading.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Urban landscape
paisaje urbano
urban landscape
The visible and spatial character of a city.
Useful in texts about cities and public design.
Surface
soporte
surface
Here it is the physical surface that receives the artwork.
Useful for discussing mural production.
Development
gestación
development
Here it means the process in which an idea takes shape.
Useful for discussing the origin of a project.
Authorship
autoría
authorship
Recognition of who creates and shapes a work.
Useful in discussions of collaborative art.
Intervention
intervención
intervention
An artistic action carried out in a particular space.
Useful for discussing public art.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Debía plus infinitive
debía escuchar ese material antes de convertirlo en una propuesta visual
had to listen before turning it into
Debía expresses a past obligation; antes de is followed by an infinitive.
Useful for describing steps and duties in the past.
Quien as a free relative
Quien conoce el proceso puede reconocer referencias del barrio
whoever knows the process
Quien introduces an unspecified person who meets the condition.
Useful for making general statements about people.
Limited negation
un mural no representa automáticamente a todo un distrito
a mural does not automatically represent
The adverb automatically narrows the negative claim.
Useful for avoiding an absolute statement.
Mientras for simultaneous contrast
mientras el artista organiza las ideas
while the artist organizes the ideas
Mientras links two simultaneous roles and contrasts them.
Useful for balancing two parts of a process.
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