Interrogations by the Graffiti community Graffiti is a subgenre of Hip-hop, and wherever you find Hip Hop you will find graffiti. Graffiti artists do not agree on whether graffiti artists should participate in advertising campaigns… The conflict of interest here makes for fascinating research to investigate what happens when something subversive and anti-mainstream gets co-opted for commercial purposes. Converse presented street art as graffiti in style and motivation however the artists used…
As we walk through the city streets, or as we travel, we find graffiti for almost about anywhere. It has been around forever and it will never stop. Originally, graffiti was brought up in the subways in New York in the 1960’s, and it was a manner for real graffiti writers to express themselves to no limits. During the 1960’s, graffiti was strictly illegal; many laws were enforced against this act to the extent where these people were incarcerated for something they loved to do. For the real…
In the essay “The Multifaceted Nature of Street Art” student author Theresa George utilizes approximately seven sources to describe her beliefs about graffiti. George associates first with author Lea Vergine, as George illustrates their shared beliefs about graffiti. George discusses the various terms used by society for graffiti, such as tagging, graffiti, writing, along with Vergine’s personal belief that is “the painting of desire or wild communication” (Silverman). George points to the…
Since the invention of spray paint people have been tattooing the walls of New York with everything from murals to gang tags. Shortly after this epidemic of graffiti the New York government started to do away with the things defacing their pristine walls by whiting them out. Unfortunately, they did not just white out the gang tags. The colorful paintings of New York’s citizens were washed out by paint itself--a very ironic way to go. Some may argue that these graffiti works were what gave New…
You’re walking down the streets of London, England graffiti, littering every wall you look upon, all of them are visibly made with passion, but, it is controversial to whether graffiti is acceptable or abominable. Every year graffiti artists are charged millions of dollars for their art-related damages, even with the permission of property owners to do their artistry. However, at the same time, there are a few artists that receive payment for the art they do without legal charges like it should…
Pshhhh! Pshhhh! That’s the sound of spray paint covering the subway walls. Have people change their attitudes about graffiti over time? Graffiti can be bad or good. 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…
Vandalism is defined as an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property" (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014). Many state laws and governments have considered graffiti to be illegal and is considered vandalism. Numerous clean up groups have been organized, and on cases that are far more serious, people that have been caught doing graffiti…
Karlie Carroll Language Analysis Practice Essay The recent damage caused to an East Park café wall has highlighted the issue of graffiti in the local media once again. Daily Tribute, a tabloid newspaper, published an editorial “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” contending that the council should support locals more who are affected by graffiti and do enforce stronger laws to prevent future damage. Local East Park council member, Kim Nguyen, wrote a letter to the editor in response to these…
the first public school district in the US in imperilment school uniforms. I never had to wear school uniform which started back in 1994 for all K-8 grade students, I had just miss it but my little sister had to wear it for a couple of years. The idea of school uniform grew in popularity though out the US and many more school adopted the school uniform concept. The school uniform was imperilment by Long Beach school district in concern for students safety and creates a since of school pride…
Rock Port High School has a serious problem of the students vandalising. The students will write in their lockers, on the bathroom stall, and on the classroom desks. It’s not every student, but it is a good majority of the students. The staff at the high school always struggle with finding a culprit or culprits of the vandalism, and they have even brought in the police. They have had their own solutions, but with no success. As a solution, the school was under a lockdown policy for several weeks…