'Graffiti Is All In The Eye Of Beholder'

Almost everywhere someone looks, under bridges, inside tunnels, on buildings and trains, graffiti is plastered there. Some graffiti a person would see would be beautiful, or it can be as simple as someone's initials or a name of some sort. But what someone fails to realize about graffiti is that it is someone's way of expressing themselves through this technique and form of art which causes the viewers to be curious, cautious, and judgemental towards it. Graffiti is a form of art because it takes time to plan out everything needed to create the masterpiece and it also helps to decorate the poor, decaying areas of cities and neighborhoods.

Graffiti paintings can be a very well thought out process by which it takes the creator a while …show more content…
Graffiti is used to help poor and deformed cities and neighborhoods look more fun and a pleasure to look at. In the article “Graffiti is All in the Eye of Beholder” it reports, “Graffiti on abandoned buildings makes the city look better...graffiti is visual communication that has a uniquely personal voice and is made with seriousness of intent...as such, it is art,” (Greenwood, 2011). Citizens believe that graffiti helps make a boring city look colorful and beautiful. It helps attract the public to come and view the tagger’s work of art just like how some museums have. Daniel Wood, author of the article “Los Angeles Turns Cameras on Gang Graffiti”, points out, “...they wish the city would spend the money to teach taggers how to paint and be more creative...and to reopen areas such as Venice Beach where graffiti artists once had spaces to paint legally.” (Wood, 2007). It is important to realize that graffiti painting was once legal in certain places. Some people believe that if some taggers took classes to become more creative, places like Venice Beach can be open to the public in order for those graffiti pieces to be displayed. Some citizens do not mind that graffiti can be a little crazy looking but they still believe that graffiti is something worth looking at. But then again, there are those who find graffiti pointless and ugly to …show more content…
A MDOT spokesman name Rob Morosi claims that, “Graffiti is vandalism. It’s dangerous and it’s expensive..” (Greenwood, 2011). The thing about graffiti is that it can be a form of destruction to property that are owned by others. It takes a lot of money in order to get rid of the graffiti from public places. MDOT annually spends over $100,00 just to paint over or power-wash the graffiti off of the freeways in Metro Detroit (Greenwood, 2011). Some would say that graffiti is a way of trespassing on someone's property because they did not seek permission to paint. No one likes to wake up and see their property destroyed with inappropriate pictures or name tags which is why people go out their way to make sure graffiti is being stopped. Even local groups and campaigns like the “Clean Up the D” have been made to assist in the removal of the graffiti. These people believe that graffiti makes their towns and neighborhoods looks more trashy than it already is which is why they want it to be removed. But what they do not understand is that those who vandalize property and tag their names, are only kids who just started doing graffiti. They do not know any better to not spray paint on someone’s property. But even if some people do not like the thought of having someone paint on their property, others hire and seek our graffiti artists to help