Banksy

If you go to any city near where you live, it doesn’t matter if it’s a large city or not, just go and look around at what you see. While most people would say that all they see are buildings, people, cars, and all of the other obvious answers. If you look closely, there is art everywhere you look, although to most people, “art” wouldn’t be the correct term to describe what they are seeing. What people see is graffiti and street art, and while most of our society would label it as vandalism and…

Is Graffiti considered as Art? I’ve walked through many parts of the community, and seen many vibrant colors drawn and writing on buildings, bridges, billboards and highways which are known to be graffiti. Graffiti is known as designs on public or private property’s walls. Which gives these artists a way of expressing themselves to society. This type of art can be understood in different ways such as vandalism by some and art by others. Although many artist are talented and spend plenty of time…

able to freely express themselves and their beliefs in public. Graffiti artists create works of art that sometimes display a social or political message.The art itself is a fashion in many countries due to the Obey Propaganda, a clothing company. And Banksy who is a famous street artist. Graffiti is mostly found in urban area including places like the walls of buildings or on bridges and…

The Urban Art: Graffiti Your drive to work takes you through an urban neighborhood full of advertisements and billboards which barely grab your attention, but in recent weeks, a rise in vibrant images and tags sprawled across buildings and shadowed under archways catch your interest and pique your imagination. Despite a controversy over whether graffiti can exist as art or not, the “artists” who create these works believe graffiti is an art. In my opinion graffiti conveys all the same qualities…

Since the beginning of time, humans have experienced the great turmoil of war. From ancient civilizations, and even currently, we have used violence and war to solve disputes in order to obtain land, gain resources, and increase government power. After all of the suffering and violence, we eventually resolve back to harmony and concord, and this is a cycle that will continue on throughout human existence. The ancient Sumerian art piece Standard of Ur and Banksy’s modern painting Soldiers…

diffusion models. The new street artists borrow the forms of graffiti, but they change it to be able to spread their artworks on the internet, on their websites, on specialized blogs and to allow the public to share them on social networks. Taking Banksy as a model, many artists have become the masters of viral marketing. While the writers have not faced the problem of commercialization, the street artists have calculated everything in terms of…

Street art has its origins in paintings on cave walls and gang graffiti, but it first became known to the general public in the late 1970s when people began to illegally decorate, or vandalize, subway cars in major cities. Artists used spray cans in a variety of colors to decorate public property; their art was quite controversial because it was often illegal and qualified as vandalism. However, the risk of being caught and arrested did not deter brave souls from practicing street art. One…

Graffiti has been a topic of debate for decades. Is it art, or is it a crime? However, it is not one or the other, says Eric Felisbert, in his article, “Legal Venues Celebrate Graffiti as an Art Form,” from the New York Times, “from the perspective of a graffiti writer, the debate about whether graffiti is art or crime is pointless because, ideally, it is both.” Although it’s artistic merits can't be denied, graffiti is still in fact a form of vandalism. Graffiti is not a crime - trespass and…

Banksy, a world renowned street artist, born in 1974, is one creator that people associate with the entry point they needed in not only seeing art in a new way, but in accepting art as a part of their daily lives. Remaining unidentified to the public, he continues to inspire the world with his artistic protests and messages to the masses. Planting his work strategically, they stay in historical sites, unwashed, to exude the passion of mystery. The artist in him, as well as the person, desires…

Can graffiti ever be considered art or vandalism? The origins of graffiti go back to the beginnings of human. Graffiti is the plural form of the Italian word graffito according to (Oxford Advanced English Learner) definition. Graffiti signifies drawings, markings, patterns, scribbles, or messages that are painted, written, or carved on a wall or surface. Graffito also signifies "to scratch" in reference to different wall writings ranging from "cave paintings", bathroom scribbles, or any message…