Drawing Vs Street Art

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Each drawing and painting always has a true and great story behind it. Paintings in Los Angeles are very beautiful and there should not be any problem with having nice paintings or drawing in the walls. I think its okay to have drawings in Los Angeles because a lot of people from all over the world go there and like to look around and explore How Los Angeles really is. Art is a really outstanding when you know that it is something that a artist drew out of there feelings or emotion or simply what they have been growing threw in their life. Yes, it would be much better if there was a place where artist can get together and draw anything they would like to draw knowing that the place where they were going to start to draw was not going to get …show more content…
Instead of people coming out at night time to draw the walls of Los Angeles there should be a place like a decent size parking lot or a gated area in which everyone who wants to draw can just go at any time of the day and start drawing without it being a bad thing to do. Like Tobar Hector mentions in “Curation In L.A. Street Art,” “Some of it is wonderful and transcendent. And just about all of it is illegal.” That is true what Tobar is saying because drawing and painting on walls that belong to companies and businesses are illegal and especially because someone is doing it without the permission that is wanted. Its also a very risky thing to do coming out at night time to do a drawing that gets buffed in a few days if not the same day that is was painted, and because of this Los Angeles should make a area where people can go and draw whatever they would like to draw and make the place look nice for tourist who go and visit Los …show more content…
People who draw in the walls at night can make a simple mistake like put a skull or something that has to do with death, and because of that a gang can see that drawing and assume that a rival gang came and drew a death wish to the gang. This is why a lot of the neighborhood people are against drawing or painting on the walls close to their homes, because they just never know when gang members could get mad and try to attack whoever they see and that does not benefit anyone that lives in those neighborhoods. In “ In the eye of the beholder” it mentions “ Some do it for the love of art, and some are destructive. But he said he thought the art in the alley was good enough to earn others respect.” The meaning to this is simple the people who draw they do it just because they like to do art and make it look nice, but to gang members that don’t know what this means it can be threatening and they would like to know who did it if not they would try to do there best to find out who did the

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