Graffiti Street Art

Graffiti: A Controversial Form of Street Art
While walking down the city street with a friend you find yourself stopped at a crosswalk waiting for cars to pass by. As you are waiting, your friend points to a beautiful illustration depicting a meaningful message that was spray painted onto the side of an occupied building. Your friend continues to say how the graffiti on this building is a crime and the artist should not have gotten away with this vandalism. You personally disagree with her opinion and put the graffiti illustration into a different perspective by suggesting that if this particular illustration was taken off of this building and put into a museum is it art now? When your friend states that if the illustration was in a museum instead of on a building it would be art you then ask why. This question of why graffiti can be considered either an expression of art or a crime is very difficult to …show more content…
He began changing the world of graffiti around the 1980s in the Barton Hill district in Bristol. This area of England was not the ideal place for people to reside. The Barton Hall district was a very neglected area that was known to be home to a lot of crime and drug problems. This area was also the place where Banksy’s father was brutally beat up which made Banksy fear the district (Ellsworth-Jones 23). With time, Banksy worked up the courage to take a visit to Bristol and began his freehand graffiti art. Not much later, Banksy became a huge sensation, allowed himself to be heard, and began giving people the idea that graffiti was art and nothing else. In a short book that he wrote he stated, “The quickest way to the top of your business is to turn it upside down” (Ellsworth-Jones 7). Having Banksy on top of the graffiti business has created more meaningful art. This allows his work to be considered art because he made graffiti more valuable than it ever was for