...Graffiti can be defined as writings or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed onto a wall or other surface. It commonly appears on the sides of buildings, both public and private. There has always been an ongoing debate about whether graffiti is art or just a form of vandalism. Often it is store owners and the owners of establishments who critiscize this form of expression because it is on their property that graffiti appears. Graffiti is most prominent in urban environments, in cities like New York and Los Angeles. People living in big cities often come into contact with graffiti whether it is on the train or simply walking down the street. Because of this most passer-by have grown used to its presence and barely even notice it. So why is it that some so strongly object against graffiti while otherwise recognize it as a cultural icon? One of the biggest distinctions to be made between art and graffiti is that art is sanctioned by the property owner whilst graffiti is done illegally. That is why two pieces that can be both classified as works of graffiti can illicit entirely different reactions. For instance, if the owner of a store allows a graffiti artist to spray paint a mural or even just a symbol on the side of his establishment, the end result would be considered a work of art. Scrap 1 is a photograph of a mural done by some local artists in the neighborhood commemorating their deceased friends. It is painted on the side of a hair salon and the owner...
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...Valentin 1 Dennys A. Valentin Mr. Brooks February 12, 2016 Is Graffiti an Art or a Crime? One believes that graffiti is more of an art than a crime. When one judges art as a crime then what creativity will we have in this world? This world has run on art ever since the beginning of time starting when cave men expressed their stories in the form of figures on stone walls. Graffiti is the same thing for our modern society, people draw on walls to tell their stories and their expression on topics, so why put a law on Graffiti? When it comes to the issue of graffiti prople tend to have questions. Is graffiti an art or a crime? Some would wonder why there are charges on your freedom of expression. America is not as free as they say, Americans have come across many roadblocks that threaten freedom of speech, religion, and the likes. We all have to pay to get what we feel inside of ourselves out. Like coming out of the closet, it such a hard struggle because we see the price. Putting a charge on graffiti is almost the same thing as selling art and the proceeding to destroy it.. Some would say that graffiti makes the streets look rather messy, or that it is destroying the property value. Others say there should be justice and to not put so much jail time in this form of freedom of expression. Valentin 2 It is considered to have started in New York City in the late 1960s and became a hit thanks to a young, and flourishing, generation during that time...
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...GRAFFITI VANDALISM IN BARANGAY BUGO: A STUDY A research proposal Presented to Mr. Bonifacio R. Labadan Mindanao University of Science and Technology Cagayan de Oro City In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements Of Research 10 Submitted by: Sheen Ruby O.Salcedo Marcela R. Salas Anacel C. Senagonia March 2012 Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction Look around a certain community; do you see spray-painted gates? Walls covered with irritating drawings? Spray-painted walls? Damage posters due to unnecessary markings? Cars polished with markers? Or any obscene and violent language scrawled on brick walls? This is what you call graffiti vandalism; any unknown person damaging properties by writing, drawing, and painting, spraying or etching on it or otherwise marking on it without the full awareness of the owner (Local Government New Zealand, Beat Graffiti Guide 2006). Public buildings and facilities are the usual prey for graffiti vandals. Private properties however, are not...
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...GRAFFITI VANDALISM IN BARANGAY BUGO: A STUDY A research proposal Presented to Mr. Bonifacio R. Labadan Mindanao University of Science and Technology Cagayan de Oro City In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements Of Research 10 Submitted by: Sheen Ruby O.Salcedo Marcela R. Salas Anacel C. Senagonia March 2012 Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction Look around a certain community; do you see spray-painted gates? Walls covered with irritating drawings? Spray-painted walls? Damage posters due to unnecessary markings? Cars polished with markers? Or any obscene and violent language scrawled on brick walls? This is what you call graffiti vandalism; any unknown person damaging properties by writing, drawing, and painting, spraying or etching on it or otherwise marking on it without the full awareness of the owner (Local Government New Zealand, Beat Graffiti Guide 2006). Public buildings and facilities are the usual prey for graffiti vandals. Private properties however, are not...
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...Graffiti, a word that always have misconception in the society. Graffiti artworks are usually misunderstood by authority and it is regarded as an illegal activity for many years. The authority – especially government – play a special role on how graffiti is viewed by society. In the article “Art Crimes: The Governance of Hip Hop Graffiti” by Kara-Jane Lombard, which is published in 2013 in the Journal For Cultural Research, explores on various aspect of graffiti associating with the governance of neoliberalism. The government perspective towards defining graffiti as an artwork is yet to accomplish. Lombard concentrates on the governments three alternative approaches to deal with graffiti in relation to crime, crime control and, citizenship....
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...withmunicipalprogramcoordinatorsandbureaucratsS.-4 learnedabout the of publiclyfunded art, and the bureaucracyinvolved pitfalls creating with puttingthe workon the wall. He learnedto workwithin bureaucrat- icallycrafteddefinitionsof communitythat did not necessarilyserveall membersof the community.He also had to deal with the fact that cre- ative was often subordinatedto fundingrequirementsin these expression of S-4 learnedto adapthis skillsand his creativitywhile at types projects. school. He was able to negotiate the politics of community-basedand publicart. J-5'sattitudetowardthe artworldwasmoreremovedthanthatof the other He did not want to be presentduringpublic scrutiny participants. of his work,so was a satisfyingvehiclefor anonymouslyexhibiting graffiti his art. He was involved with the Keith Haring exhibition at the Art Galleryof Ontario,anexperiencethatseemedto confirmhisperception thatartinstitutionsareremovedfromwhatis reallyhappeningwithinthe city. He found that the people inside the galleryknew very little about artistsoutsidethe galleryor how theyworked.As a visitingartistin the school system,he was surprisedto discoverhow little informationadoles- centshadabouttheworldoutsidetheirschools.He thoughtthatyoung studentsshouldlearnaboutdiverse,alternativeapproachesto art,someof which be outside the mainstream. followedhis own path and might J-5 wasnot interestedin subculturegatheringsandconnections. P-6 embracedthe art world with some skepticism.Like R-1, he was concernedabouttheelitism...
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...the city?”In London, England it is seen as a crime to paint or write, of any kind, on the walls of the city, but this is only forced upon some aspiring graffiti artists. Graffiti should not be labeled as crime but as an expression of art because it is an artist’s personal story that they want displayed on the walls so everyone can enjoy them. Graffiti...
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...day basis. Graffiti for example, is one form of conveying a public message. As described by the Cambridge Dictionary, graffiti are "writings or drawings made on surfaces in public places", this kind of artwork first began to display some sort of self-expression or story. Banksy, a British street artist, conveys his messages through the same manner of powerful artwork like graffiti. Whenever a message is purposely trying to be conveyed, there must be elements included like the rhetorical triangles of ethos, pathos, logos as well as the audience, purpose, and context. Furthermore, the author of the message will also have to convey the aspect of Master Class. In respect to this particular artwork by Banksy, the message...
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...wild world. Now, graffiti artists use much the same technique, in the form of aerosol paints, to leave their mark on a world filled with chaos and complexity. Ancient graffiti explored the world in all of it’s intricacies, from the sacred to the profane, the political to the personal, the humorous to the serious, and all the spaces in between. Modern north American graffiti, more often than not, is narcissistic, taking the form of painting a stylized pseudonym in many highly visible, public locations, or signed street-art, which can lead to lucrative gallery shows or profitable collaborations. Whether the intent is to beautify or annihilate parts of societies shared environment, the end goal is the same, imbuing some personal meaning into an otherwise impersonal world....
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...Imagine you are walking down a city street, and the old brick walls are decorated with colorful and unique art work. In some cities, there are laws prohibiting graffiti, while in others, street art has gained worldwide recognition and become a cultural attraction for tourists. In the united States, graffiti should be encouraged in cities, and can be seen as a way to beautify a community and provide a mean for artists to express themselves and take pride in their neighborhood. Some people use the “broken window theory” which claims that graffiti leads to larger issues of crime. However, other studies have shown that graffiti can actually be beneficial to a community. For example, in his book “Graffiti Murals: Exploring the Impacts of Street...
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...People’s persepectives on grafffiti There are people going to jail for over a decade just beacuse they do graffiti. Graffiti began in the 1960’s. They say it can lead to bad things like drug deals,robberies,etc. People that don’t do graffiti still do drug deals and stuff. But yet they still just say that it’s the graffiti that leads to it. They have to pay large fines or be prosecuted. There’s alot of people who do graffiti but they don’t do the bad thing’s. Sometime’s people do graffiti so they can show off their art skills because they might want alot of people to know about them and it’s not cause they want to lead thing’s to the bad thing’s like they say. Imagine going to jail just for doing graffiti.Graffiti can be inappropriate but...
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...As an art form, graffiti has always been seen as a more obscure, grimier medium, and it has been long argued whether it should be classified as art or not. In Craig Castleman’s piece “The Politics of Graffiti” he quotes a mayoral aide who assisted in the flagship anti-graffiti programs in New York having said: “The public is frightened and disgusted by graffiti and they want us to do something about it. We’re going to do whatever is necessary to wipe it out” (28). Even was graffiti was first popularized about four decades ago, there has always been a polarized view of graffiti. As Castleman touched upon, graffiti has a history of being seen as form of vandalism that makes cities appear dirtier and in turn deserves to be punished by law. For...
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...Word Count: 2,259 Graffiti's Helpfulness Throughout history art has always been present. Art has been used to preserve an era, retell stories, to show a culture so anyone could understand it, and graffiti and street art is the modernists way of showing their culture. Graffiti and street art has taken over the streets of cities and towns. In most locations graffiti and street art is considered purely vandalism. These artists are presented with into the shadows to show their pieces of works to society. Graffiti and street art has evolved from simply putting a made up name on the wall to drawing attention to societal issues. The streets are the ideal location for controversial art pieces because every commoner with see those art works. Graffiti and street art has opened a new door of possibilities allowing people to freely speak of controversial issues within their suburb, town, or large city. These art medians have enable artists for an urban age of liberation. In Elizabeth L. Rauh's essay “Thirty Years Later: Iranian Visual Culture from the 1979 Revolution to the 2009 Presidential Protests”, Rauh examines the posters, photographs, slogans, graffiti, and other visual and artistic activities to show how the Green Movement used street art and graffiti to visually illustrate issues about the government anonymously. Rauh says that the specific images that were used in these revolutions have appeared within Iranian history before. They were recognizable throughout the whole community...
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...The Importance of Graffiti Should public art, such as graffiti, be protected rather than frowned upon by the community? Graffiti should be protected by the community as most “graffiti’ public arts are created in order for the artist to express themselves. Most artists use these creations in order to get their name out in the art world by expressing themselves and their culture in order for others to come to admire it. Graffiti can also be used to show the community of their city or the world problems. People tend to shun graffiti public arts as a form of vandalism and also blaming gang members for their pieces put up on city structure walls. As an amateur artist you have to start somewhere for your name to be known so many often start by working on building walls, busses, or metro trains where people can see them. Many will judge the artist to be a gang member and disregard the art piece as nothing more than vandalism. They will then remove the artist’s piece which as stated in an article by the Los Angeles Police...
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...I agree that overall graffiti is considered art but there are things that aren't considered art like tagging (when a person makes a signature that they use one color and make a signature that has no skill and work) but big pieces of art that are deeply put work into and well thought out and people look at for hours and hours. Graffiti is just an escape for there fun time and then they create masterpieces just for doing their fun stuff. Graffiti could be on a really big canvas too. There are places where you are allowed to graffiti like in Denver a lumber yard was opened up for graffiti for free. If you thought that graffiti isn't considered art and it went farther to getting rid of graffiti forever it would cost 1.5 billion dollars. Some...
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