Martinez, José. “Know Your Graffiti: Art, Vandalism or Gang Device?” Home, 12 Mar. 2012, 12:11pm, www.oncentral.org/news/2012/03/06/know-your-graffiti-art-vandalism-or-gang-device/. Jose Martinez goes over how you can tell the difference between art work and gang tagging. He interviewed an LA police officer and a gang member on how exactly they represent gangs and their territory. Jose also says how gangs tag where people can read it and understand it.…
It can bring to life whatever they can create and design in one night for the world to see the next morning. With what I’ve gathered from Mike’s perspective on graffiti, I feel as if graffiti artists have a sense of freedom to fully express themselves. I respect what Mike is doing with this beautiful form of art to use it for good. On the other hand, some people have a pre-conceived notion that graffiti is distasteful, disrespectful, and useless. It is true that the negative side to graffiti are the few that vandalize people’s personal property and paint profanities, but for the true graffiti artists’ such as Mike, they can create something bigger than themselves and help the world to become a better…
Essay Question #2 Melanie A Morway October 6, 2016 The way that our text book describes Charlemagne and the way that the selection from Einhard describes Charlemagne are different in several ways, yet there are some similarities. Our text book describes him as a man that was instrumental in implementing the practices of a Feudal society in Europe. “Perhaps the most important ruler to codify and adopt these practice was Charlemagne, who dreamed not only of unifying Europe under his rule, but also unifying Church and state in a single administrative and political bureaucracy”(Sayre, pg 82). Our text book goes on the discuss Charlemagne’s accomplishments. Einhard’s writing takes a more personal turn, and describes not only his personal and private life, but also describes his looks.…
In related to studying people who lived a very long time ago terms graffiti (plural of graffiti) is a mark, image or writing, scratched or wrote into a surface. There have been many examples found on places & locations of the Roman Empire,…
In the film Style Wars by Tony Silvers we are introduce to a subculture of urban New York city kids from the 1980's. These kids struggle to express themselves through their art. "Art that back then was considered vandalism. I believe that Tony Silver portrays the emotional involvement that these teens have towards their art which helps the audience recognize that graffiti should be taken like any other form of…
Is graffiti art or vandalism? Graffiti is a way for people to express themselves and it also can inspire people to make changes for the better. In “If Walls Could Talk,” The artist Rosembert shows how he feels about specific things that happen in Haiti. Rosembert’s first attempt at social graffiti was whenever…
The graffiti artists that vandalize people's property with spray paint, is considered an illegal use of graffiti. The graffiti artists that are allowed to spray paint walls or subways, for work and volunteer serves, can be seen as legal graffiti. The attitudes towards graffiti have changed because people think graffiti is an artwork, people are connecting with this art, and people think that graffiti artists need to be out there more in the world. One way the attitudes towards graffiti changed, is that people think that graffiti is artwork.…
Art is a form of expression that can be presented in a number of ways, including painting, music, and even video. Anything can be art as long as it has meaning behind it, like the street art produced by Banksy. What he has created is full of symbolism and is pleasing to look at, so why wouldn't it be qualified to be in a museum? What shouldn't be in a museum is the pieces that have been created by Mr. Brainwash. His creations may appear to be art, but the sole purpose of them is to make money, which in itself is not necessarily bad.…
Even though some people think graffiti is right, it is wrong and illegal. Although people who don't get caught tells people they don't get caught then he gets more people. If more get caught more get scared if more get scared they stop. Graffiti to some people is all about disproportionate and it needs to stop. It is not right to do that especially to someone else's property.…
Graffiti: To be Art, or not to be? Whenever you take a stroll through downtown, anywhere, old buildings and alleyways are stricken with spray painted works. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings”. The painted works draw your attention and can create feelings of peace, danger, wistfulness, merriment, sadness, or even anger.…
But creating more graffiti could be a good thing for the people or a bad thing for the community. By creating more graffiti, they are not only expressing themselves, but these people get a chance to take this passion into something that they can do for the rest of the lives. In an article by Jareen Imam, they write “Movements such as GreenGraffiti, which uses pressurized water to leave behind clean messages and images on the streets of New York, or the increasing use of commercial graffiti, where street artists are hired to create graffiti-based advertisements in cities such as London, Paris, New York and Atlanta, also shine light on the increasing commercialism of graffiti.” Even though the graffiti is illegal, it never stopped people from doing it, but it has become something that is illegal to something that people get paid for doing and having their work in galleries.…
Is graffiti public art? In my opinion graffiti is vandalism. From what I have read in the two articles some people see graffiti as art while others disagree. Graffiti destroys private property. Its cost a lot of the cities money to clean up the graffiti.…
They love their work and want to share it with everyone, not just the people that can afford a $15 ticket to spend a day in a museum. Finally, graffiti is considered art because it is on the street as stated in the quote, “People are used to seeing graffiti art in public spaces, after all, that 's what makes it graffiti.” (Sanchez, Noel). Graffiti is on the streets so it gives people all over a message, or even to put a smile on their face. The artist wants everyone to see it and enjoy it just by taking a…
To start with, graffiti makes our surroundings more beautiful and aesthetic; hence, it is art because this is the function of art. In spite of the fact that graffiti artists do not use canvas or painting brush, they use a wide variety of colors in order to make our world more aesthetic. Stowers (1997) mentions that graffiti is not only communicating with others, but also it makes our community more than beautiful. To illustrate, graffiti artists paint on obsolete buildings and abandonment walls with colorful spray (App.3). Thus, the only discrepancy from other types of art is that graffiti artists do not exhibit their pictures in galleries or museums.…
Graffiti was once labeled as street art which was frequently a prominent problem in urban cities; defacing or “tagging” public and private property was against the law. As time as evolved, so has the street art culture. Today, street art is one of most sought after and creative outlets for local artists. The culture around street art can be interesting in the fact that artists build their names and reputation with one piece of work at a time; sometimes when it starts to take over the city it gets the attention it has been wanting. Street art is now very innovative featuring many different art styles and often makes a commentary on a social issue and if it does not, then it was created to help change the city.…