Halsted Street

London, on November 20, 2011, by a famous street artist known as Banksy, true identity yet still unknown. This graffiti piece displays a dark figure of a woman falling alongside a shopping cart with a shadows cast from them. The women appear to be in a fully cloth along with a set of heels and in a skirt, as with the shopping cart it appears to have objects of jewelry and wine/alcohol and other more luxury type items falling with and off it. Banksy’s street art often expresses his satire…

In response to the decrease in the economy in our state, thousands of people have lost their home. They have moved to temporary camps. The government and police need to encourage the homeless population into searching for other states where the economy is better. Allowing the homeless to stay in this state in the current situation, it will cause violence, and it will cause health hazards not only to themselves, but also to the environment, and other beings. With the decreased economy, the…

feel that Haring made certain things like the cross and the TV stick out to draw attention to them as his viewers looked across his drawing. Untitled was created in 1982 when Haring first started his career with graffiti drawings that were made in streets, sidewalks and subways or New York City. In each of his graffiti pieces he combined abstract patterns with the cartoonish creatures that vary throughout the strict pattern. The point of my essay was to explain the experience that would…

Although microfinancing sought out to alleviate poverty and empower women in the past, new studies reveal that microfinancing has instead hindered the growth and liberation of women using religious means in Egypt. The progress of women in Egypt has dwindled due to the fact that the original goal of empowerment is no longer abided by. Civil Service Organizations set out to aid the poor people of Egypt however they have also left women choosing between their own moral judgement and material goods…

Graffiti for Social Change The general argument made by the author in the work, "Afghani Artist puts Beautiful Images on Kabul’s Ugly Walls of War,”is that art can help change people's minds about violence and corruption. More specifically, the author argues that Kabir Mokamel and the group known as the Art Lords are using the large concrete blast walls that surround the homes of government officials and other upper class people as a canvas for paintings that speak out against corruption and…

According to itv.com the article “Graffiti Police… Tagging the streets to send a positive message” by Avon and Somerset Police Stencil. Tagging could give off a positive message to people who see their message. “Avon and Somerset Police launched a new campaign, Hate has no home here, to provide victims and bystanders…

When an individual vandalizes someone’s car, a public building, a bridge, or any other form of property that is not theirs they are said to do it simply to damage whatever they are vandalizing. The individual is doing this just to make it look unattractive to the people who will see it. It is very obvious that this is not what Banksy’s intentions are when he is creating his artworks so why is it even discussed that his work is a crime? Due to Banksy not wanting to deface a building it is easy…

Bourgois argues that street culture is “creative, destructive and oppositional” I will begin to explain each aspect of street culture, before discussing what Bourgois was depicting in the Ethnography when referring to street culture. Furthermore, I will use sections from the Ethnography to paint an essential picture of Bourgois argument while including my own reflection. To Illustrate, I shall go over Bourgois definition of inner-street culture “A complex and conflictual web of beliefs, symbols,…

that unsanctioned work is restricted to tags because in the United States the fear of prosecution forces artists to quickly put up their work and flee, not allowing time for something as elaborate as Figure 6. This image represents a development in street art that allows unsanctioned work to be more elaborate. Artists have created posters and stencils, which allow the time consuming work to be done in private at home and require very little time to apply to walls (Waclawek 33). Figure 6 is a…

1. You want to determine whether graffiti is really a problem, whether the citizens who have complained are representative of the community as a whole (as opposed to random “troublemakers”). Describe at least four types of data you could collect to determine whether graffiti is really a problem. Be creative and be specific. Perhaps the best type of data that could be collected would come from exploratory research. This type of data could be extrapolated by selecting random households (from the…