In his article, “Get tough on taggers”, Joseph F. Licastro argues that graffiti should not go unpunished and should be considered a crime. Licastro supports his argument by suggesting ways on how offenders should pay for the graffiti they do to our community. Some ways she suggested the offenders to pay is by clearing off the graffiti, buying their own equipment with their money, and putting a tracking device on them. His purpose is to make people see that graffiti is just like any other crime in order to have a harder punishment for
Even if you consider graffiti as being something people who go against it can claim, even if it is art, it still causes issues like stolen objects and broken property. In the article “Wiping Out Graffiti in Houston” it claims, “Gang graffiti is communication used to promote the gang, mark territory, make rivals and alliances, and announce the gang’s presence in a community; it can also threaten violence.” Even if graffiti is good it can result in gang graffiti, it can get people hurt or killed by the fights between, it can make many places dangerous. In the article “Make Memories and Leave No Trace” by the United States National Park Service it claims “nearly every day, rangers find words, shapes drawn, craved, scratched, or painted on rocks at Arches. Over one million people visit every year, and many may not know that all graffiti in the park is vandalism.”
They see the work that is already illegally painted somewhere and they are inspired by that work (Graffiti Writers). In our culture, a majority of the population would not dare paint art on something that does not belong to them. Not only that, but trespassing on private property and vandalizing it is a pretty big law in the United States. That is a big reason that graffiti writing is seen as a subculture. They have their own norms, their own laws, and their own values that we cannot see from our point of
Living in an urban all of my life, I have always been surrounded by street art. Some were vulgar, some were just words, and others were well thought out pieces that really caught people’s attention. Thus to me, street art as always been considered a form of art. I always knew a little bit about graffiti and street art, but I always focused on the big names and adults who work in the field; never adolescent children, as the video presented. I always knew that graffiti was created by all people of all ages, different races, and different genders, but I never heard of the stories from these types of artists.
All kinds of people are doing graffiti. There is no race that does it more than another, no age group can really be credited with graffiti, and no socio economic group is responsible. Graffiti is one of the few movements that includes a variety of people from all backgrounds, with one goal in mind, getting up and spreading a message. It can mean a colorful mural with a message of diversity or a black and white stencil piece protesting police brutality. In each case, graffiti art makes a statement.
STAGE 2 CREATIVE ARTS - INVESTIGATION Graffiti vandalism or art? When we look over the history of graffiti the same question is often raised is graffiti a form of art or is it vandalism cause by the criminals or the youths of the age. The definition of art is ‘the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination’.
Graffiti is a form of art that has no restrictions or boundaries since it is just text or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on any public wall or other surface. These surfaces can be buildings, street signs, statues, and even other works of arts. Although graffiti is considered an act of vandalism, many graffiti images have deep meanings behind them. Graffiti is a form of art that people use to express themselves and to convey various messages to people in a particular community, as is the case with the works of the anonymous British street artist, Banksy. His work often encounters countries with political themes, war, hypocrisy and greed, including Palestine.
Graffiti is a form of self-expression found almost everywhere. Graffiti is found on train cars, buildings, in museums, art shows, everywhere. I believe that Graffiti is a form of art. Graffiti is pleasant, sometimes ordinary and sweet, sometimes the artists can have wit and make their piece funny. Street art has a purpose and goes beyond the image.
Graffiti is a unique method of writing and drawing that is often seen in big cities throughout the United States and elsewhere. When graffiti began several people thought that this new method of writing and drawing destroyed their neighborhoods and viewed it as an act of vandalism. However, there were a number of people who considered graffiti as a method of expressing one's feelings and opinions, as well as a form of art. Graffiti is a form of talent that first originated in Philadelphia in the early 1960s.
There was a movement to fix and make clean of all of the subway cars in the subway, this made Graffiti artists have to result to different things, and find other places to express themselves. Graffiti artists started to paint on rooftops of buildings, or on walls. In Washington there is Graffiti of course, but there are also gang symbols on stop signs in Spokane, Washington.
Graffiti gives individuals the freedom to express themselves anonymously. The artist can create what they want, as to not having too purchase expensive supplies to get started. As for other artist they can use graffiti to express an opinion or idea such as a political point,
Taylor Lechuga Mariko Carson 093 CCR Dec 7, 2014 Beauty Of Graffiti The streets run rampant with the beauty of art, illegally and legally. Graffiti has always been a touchy topic, because it has gone from miscreants writing on walls claiming their “hood” to artist doing murals to have a representation of meaningful and positive messages behind the art piece. As a society people tend to think of graffiti as bad, but if they leave the negative thought about it they will see the beauty of graffiti and why it should not be looked down upon.
In the world we know art as many things Acting,Dancing, Digital and Traditional Hand drawn art, but Something many people debate on is Graffitis status as art While many people argue about graffiti and its status in the art community .Graffiti has been considered to be drawings, paintings, or other markings on surfaces in public places. Although this is often believed to be a relatively modern form of art, it actually dates back centuries ago. Many people have debated about how Graffiti isn 't Art since its illegal and how people can get in serious trouble when caught vandalising property.
Gangs and trouble are most always associated with a city but that is not always the case. Graffiti just expresses the beauty and talent there is in an area. There are many art festivals to help young people pursue their dreams and promote street art. Many of them are city funded(Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism ? Questions of Art, Advertising and Public Space).
Street art is often used to distinguish modern public-space artwork from traditional graffiti and the overtones of gang territoriality and vandalism associated with it. Graffiti writing and other forms of street art involve alternative ways of imagining, mapping, using, mediating and making urban space (Iveson, 2010). Their quality and quantity changed over the last few decades. Speaking of it, one more thing has to be said and that is differences between murals and graffiti. The specialists of public art always make this kind of distinction.
