Argumentative Essay About Graffiti

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When we mention about graffiti, where do we expect to see it? Probably not in museum. Unlike order arts, the background of graffiti does not gorgeous and magnificent that is why graffiti mostlikely being on streets, under bridges, or on some buildings. Graffiti borns mainly in low – in come areas, so the boundary between art and vandalism is very arachnoid. The debate about graffiti has been going for decade because people do not understand the difference between creation and destruction. In this article, I am going to give you a better look about graffiti through out two videos which are "Graffiti Fine Art", "Graffiti Verite" and a public art "Biscuit Paint Wall" which I experienced myself.
Before we go inside the two videos, we must know what is graffiti and what is vandalism.
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In the second video "Graffiti Verite", these people have different thought about graffiti. The video started with "it 's about fame, it 's about popular". Personally, I do not considering them as artists at first because true artists never think about those things while creating arts which has been told in the first video. Thus, They did not have respect anyone but themselves, we can tell it easily by the way they cover eachother graffiti over and over again. They are too busy thinking about how to make their works stand out in a place of nowhere to be good. For them, graffiti is stealing spot light, it is a game of survival and all of their works mostly tags and hatred. They defined graffiti by hip-hop, rap and tags. They established their own style throughout their life, where they were born and the way they grew up with gang groups everywhere. However, in the very end of the video, they started to relize their art forms and they changed. It used to be tags, another tags and a bigger tags, but it made a big turn around and it becomes graffiti art. They finally found their voices in the graffiti world, earned the respect and acknowledge by

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