Street art

be as simple as someone's initials or a name of some sort. But what someone fails to realize about graffiti is that it is someone's way of expressing themselves through this technique and form of art which causes the viewers to be curious, cautious, and judgemental towards it. Graffiti is a form of art because it takes time to plan out everything needed to create the masterpiece and it also helps to decorate the poor, decaying areas of cities and neighborhoods. Graffiti paintings can be a…

artform, or just plain vandalism? By definition vandalism is action involving deliberate destruction or damage to public or private property. This means that any graffiti put on property without permission in vandalism, regardless of whether or not it is art. The Mayor of Seattle has invited the public to provide their input on the debate before the official statement is written. My opinion on the topic is that graffiti is vandalism because people put it on property that doesn't belong to them…

Art is a connector for all humans, not just artists and their world. Whether the audience realizes it or not, local art is a force that often brings people of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles together. Cities as diverse as New York City benefit from the constant stimuli of art. Art takes multiple forms in urban spaces, including graffiti, murals, art museums, and commemorative statues. Within the article Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation,…

a sense of peacefulness. But not on this night. The lights gleamed with a tinge of red, the cobblestone streets which I've walked down since I was just a child had a cold and unwelcoming look to them. Tonight is different. Everything is different. Like a dark, suffocating cloak had been draped over the town. What is happening here? And why the fuck did I come back? As I walked down the street I counted each and every stone, just as I used to, observing the renovated but still oddly familiar…

Art has a huge influence on culture and history. Different forms of art can connect ideas and various emotions to audiences across the world. There are many concepts that can make an artwork more appealing depending on the type of art it is. For this rhetorical analysis, I analyzed the graffiti called cave painting. This artwork was created by the anonymous English graffiti artist known as Banksy. Banksy’s artwork is comprised of stencils, spray-paint, and creativity. This kind of painting…

These cats used for the street shots and the sites for character’s narratives in the text are all heavily waxed and polished, and appear very well cared for. Although, this could relate to the social status with which the cats are imbued with in the movie’s diegesis, it does also underscore that there is a worth that these vehicles enjoy beyond their own context and immediate use value. The shiny luster of the cats is further amplified by the overhead lighting in the dark streets where a large…

Jean-Marie Burbee American Cinema FIL-110-OL010 Professor Allen Mentz American Cinema Final July 2016 American Graffiti: A 'Coming of Age' film that left its mark In 1973, Director George Lucas released a film entitled, “American Graffiti.” Although created in the 70's, the film itself chronicles the end of summer 1962 centralized around two men and their last days of childhood before they officially become adults and their various friends still in high school. This is a time in most of our…

paint on the walls, trains or subways or not. A great number of people assume that graffiti is a type of crime because art belongs only on canvas. However, these people seem not to know what the definition of art is. What is more, they do not care about talented graffiti artists. For this reason, graffiti is definitely a type of art. So, graffiti ought to be agreed as a kind of art rather than vandalism on account of two crucial factors: graffiti is an artistic expression, and concurrently it…

confusion. Graffiti is rooted in the unsanctioned use of public space; it was meant to “break boundaries and def[y] the law” (Elias). In this sense, the fundamental purpose of the art form is what makes it such a controversial topic. Because the work done is mostly unsanctioned, graffiti has been seen more as vandalism than art by pedestrians. This distinction places graffiti…

graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the rules of art have changed and the conditions under which art…