Graffiti Vandalism

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    The Pros And Cons Of Urban Graffiti

    Could graffiti actually be good for cities?The Tate Modern museum in London, England is a museum that has amazing pieces of work. Those paintings were eye-catching, but the DPM crew tried to ruin the paintings on the street of the museum. Graffiti should be allowed in cities.This could cost the government money to erase the graffiti if they don’t find out who made the artwork.They can save more money if they just erase the mindless and stupid words people draw on buildings without permission. Graffiti

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    Banksy

    When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. Graffiti has a negative stigma that typically relates to crime. To the artist, they are not committing

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    Graffiti Through the Ages

    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

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    Graffiti Persuasive Essay

    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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    The Change

    The Change. ”Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssshhhh.”... ”Kling-kling, kling-kling, kling-kling, kling-kling.” It was the whole experience, he just couldn’t get enough of. He kept going on and on, and when all the painting came together it made a big beautiful motif. He didn’t even know it himself, he didn’t know what could cause him to don’t care about anything else, and just disappear into this dangerous hobby. Was it the tinkling sound when he shacked the can? Was it the smell? Was it the feeling in his body

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    Graffiti

    interesting video popped up. I saw a man being video recorded while he was climbing up a fence of a military airport. Then, he ran quickly towards the Air Force One, which is the personal aircraft of the President of the United States, and tagged a graffiti drawing on the jet. It gave me a big shock after watching the video because that man actually sneaked in to the US military airbase and tagged the Air force One aircraft. The event was being broadcast on some major TV channels. After making everything

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    Graffiti Rhetorical Analysis

    Messages of all kinds are conveyed on a day to 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

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    Grafitti

    July 21st 2013 Graffiti, a deviant behavior? When someone walks down an alley way, under a bridge, or by a railway car what are they most likely to see? Graffiti. Graffiti is the deviant act of vandalism; it appears in many places, and in many forms. The artists that create these sometimes beautiful masterpieces are often overlooked, but their murals live on to be seen and added on to day after day. Most people feel that graffiti on any type of property is vandalism. If someone marks up

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    Work

    Artist research Banksy His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer, Tristan Manco, and the book Home Sweet Home

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    The Misunderstood Art Form of Graffiti

    Form of Graffiti Graffiti is a monumental part of any urban environment. Many view the action of graffiti to be the work of a criminal while others view it as the work of an artist. Vandalism, the destruction of property, is the category that graffiti falls under in many countries. It is understandable that posting graffiti on a private small business is a criminal act. However, graffiti can and should be viewed as a form of art no matter the location. Many art museums have graffiti style pieces

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