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.…
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…
I enjoy driving by spray painted depictions of Martin Luther King, local landscapes, and renderings of past events. The artwork is more than just scribbles on a wall but a visual statement of their beliefs and view point of their era. Graffiti created in dangerous private places are more than just kids writing their names but artists that are creating pieces that are grander, more elaborate, than the cave men paintings. I had never thought about drawings done by cavemen as graffiti, until I read articles that linked the two. Graffiti artists aren’t criminals they just use a different canvas than common painters.…
You see it on sidewalks, walls, trains, and in public bathrooms. You’ve never put much thought into graffiti. Some graffiti you see can be funny and welcoming, while others can be crude and racist. The Oxford Dictionary defines graffiti as being, “writings or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or in a public place,” while other people argue that it’s not illegal and is art. Which side of the story is correct?…
1.I affirmatively disagree that graffiti should not be taken from the streets and sold on the art market. The reason behind it, is the fact that you're claiming it as your own work without the other individual’s consent. In addition, the person that did the graffiti wouldn't want his/her work to be sold due to the meaning of his/her creative expression. 2. I believe that some graffitis should be displayed on the museum if and only if the artist gives consent.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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.…
(Wilde, Danielle). Finally, graffiti isn’t usually the only illegal thing these artist do. They can be tied into other crimes such as, “Gang-related crimes and violence are the crimes most commonly associated with graffiti. ”(Sanchez, Noel). Graffiti makes cities, homes, and businesses look cheap and it is not like they want that on their building it is illegal by state, so why would something that cost so much be considered…
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.…
In shorts, graffiti is not vandalism because, just like art, it moves people to feelings. So, it is art and people ought to accept of as a type of…