MURAL

Instead of city beautification programs full of slogans in a one-way communication like a lot happened in Indonesia's cities, the creation of murals in public spaces feel more effective in improving the public's active participation in efforts to design visual quality city.

Yogyakarta City Mural. The impression was strongly attached in the City Gudeg which has perpetuated the creation of murals on walls all over town by adhering to the social and aesthetic value of the local. This movement became a phenomenon. There was recognition of the city government and the involvement of all community among artists, school children, villagers up to the singers of the city. Their initiative to bring the mural than just "street art" to become a model of creativity that beautify the city.

As has been described by Ir. Ikaputra, M Eng, Ph D and Dyah Titisari Widyastuti, ST, Mudd in the paper Creation of Public Space City Mural on the Culture-Based and Community Participation: Case Study of Yogyakarta. Of the 30 point spread in the city Yogakarta murals, murals move the city first started the participatory community beautification in Yogyakarta in 1997 there were in the Palace and Malioboro. Continued until 2003 in suburban locations like Jalan Solo and Parangtritis. Sultan Palace and Malioboro area as the start of action, because of its proximity to the community gathering place of artists Pharmacies Comics Samuel Indratma leadership, as the originator of the movement.

Image of the Society of Aesthetics

As the "street art", the mural not be resisted even rage. Evident from the vast area of ​​Yogyakarta and the spread of the murals in commercial areas, about the means of education, housing, gangs and even villages on the columns and fly over the buffer areas. No wonder that mural art has been given its own aesthetic image of the face of this warm city. Because in addition to legal process through which the artists the mural through the wall or the owner's permission, plus the forms of compromise and guarantee the quality of the work of its artists.


Rapid and widespread this movement is also due to the emergence of awareness of the benefits of learning through social messages murals, such as anti-drug messages, anti-corruption, or social inequality. Residents seemed to enjoy their real role and the efforts of beautifying the environment, while expressing themselves through the messages they convey.

The city faces an alternative arrangement

The mural, like graffiti, using the outside walls or canvas as a medium of expression. This deliberate action done to expose the work to the widest possible public. To that end the general category of the selected location is a place that is considered important and publicly known, easily seen in passing, or easy to find (accessible) everywhere. But unlike graffiti containing writing or marks that are less clear because the message is usually a mere existential urban youth, the work tends to be a work of collage mural depicting people, places, and words that clearly reveal the issues that are widespread in society.


As the work, the mural became an alternative arrangement the city faces a somewhat opposite trend-setting city that promotes a beautiful modern city with a clean look. In the development of cities in the world, as well as graffiti murals, thick with the association of city slums, the representation of the disorder, reducing the sense of security, crime prone, and ultimately slows economic growth in urban areas concerned. But on the other hand, due to the orientation of economic growth as well, the movement of ideas through the installation of commercialism-city billboards and other advertising forms, seemed to dominate in every corner of the city. This in turn also led to irregularities in other forms. Even away from the sense of community ownership of the space city.


In Yogyakarta murals proved to be present in the creation of an effective process involving the citizens. Residents moved to format the face of the city together in an aesthetic and social themes. The walls of the city that was once empty, dull, full of graffiti, under-under the overpass full of garbage, has become more beautiful and interesting views. People have become real actors of the beautiful city.