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,…
A dot on a piece of paper shouldn’t be considered as art nor cost more than a wall that is the meaning of beauty. Graffiti tends to speak the truth, which society tries to hide. Graffiti can be considered as a cultural movement, making people realize more in life. Rather than to pay thousands of dollars for something…
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.…
Based on the information provided by Widewalls art website, Street art started from murals, graffiti, prints, and stencils. This is quite astonishing to me because the majority of the of the artists look at graffiti as vandalism instead of artwork. During the late 20st century there was a rise in the popularity of street art such as works by Banksy in 1991 and by Swoon in 1999. The question that the majority of people want to know the answer to is “what is the difference between graffiti and street art?” The difference between street art and graffiti is that street art is more like using the streets as a platform to paint pictures that create a statement, whereas graffiti is the art of tagging a section of the streets.…
The use of the word graffiti by archeologists to distinguish it from established art created a bias towards street and graffiti which remains to this day. Anything that comes from the street will seldom be considered ‘respectable’. Many of the ideas of what modern art should be were formulated in the late nineteenth century by a…
Graffiti sometimes can be seen on store fronts and on public transportation; this is illegal and is considered vandalism because it is messing with public property. According to Grody (2008), “The first is the continuum from legal to illegal; legal being those spaces where there is permission to paint, and illegal where arrest is possible” (p. 474). Having artists painting on public property is ruining the possibility of graffiti being seen as positive. It will always be seen as negative if the only place you always see it, is destroying businesses and transportation. The author is saying you should have permission before going and painting on public properties and transportations, while it is still considered art just don’t do it if you don’t have permission to.…
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.…
The month long project brought the community together to gladly fund the supplies that his team needed to paint the mural. Mike continues to explain that graffiti’s visual roots derived from tagging, what he describes as the “art of vandalism.” He goes on to say that…
Tags are text based and largely indecipherable by those outside the graffiti community. The intention behind a tag is the rebellious proliferation of the artist’s signature, akin to brand name advertising”…
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.…
Graffiti is a very broad category of art. The art form includes tags, throwies, throwups, pieces, practically anything that could be described as writing or drawing on a wall and because of this wide range of types, graffiti can either be as simple as writing a name, or as complicated as an elaborate depiction. The type of graffiti an artist puts up on a wall is a result of several factors. A primary one would be personal preference; some artists are interested in simply leaving their mark by writing their name on the wall, others intend on drawing complicated pieces that express a message of some sort. Several other reasons exist that influence an artist's decision.…
Graffiti artists put just as much time and effort as a regular artist, and it can be seen by everyone with no price. Graffiti can be just as expensive and famous as classical art pieces that hang in a museum. Graffiti is just modern and up-to-date with this generation. One example that proves this point is, “Brad Pitt spent over 2…
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.…
Most people that run our cities don’t like graffiti because it is like a tourist attraction but it doesn’t make them any money. They only think about themselves. So when people dislike and criticize my art I just keep on making more and more, like I did in New York, where I made a new piece every day for a month. The people who run our cities might be making the world a better place but I am trying to make it a better looking place.…