graffiti … or art

 

graffiti heart money

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“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.”

Raymond Salvatore Harmon

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“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.”

Banksy

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Ah.

 

 

Art.

 

And graffiti.

 

 

Could graffiti really be art?

 

Well.

 

graffiti art frameThere is an endless debate over that question.

 

 

That is maybe until this guy named Banksy came along.

 

He kind of made graffiti … well … art.

Let’s maybe call it ‘wall art.’

 

Banksy is a quasi-anonymous English graffiti artist.

 

According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”

<please note ... I was never aware there was a ‘great aerosol boom’ in the late 80’s let alone any time>

 

Regardless.

 

I love Banksy’s stuff. Heck. I love any of the good graffiti art.

 

Its poignant.

 

Its satirical <or simply artistic renditions of some sardonic, if not ironic, glimpses in Life>.

 

Its topical <on politics, culture, ethics or simply highlighting the complex moral choices we make in simplistic visuals>.

 

It’s art <at least to me>.

 

 

But it sure ain’t just some scribbling on a wall … that’s for sure.

 

Oops.

But in many cities it is a criminal act.

 

graffiti art not a crime

Anyway.

 

Criminal or not Banksy has created some amazing ‘things.’

 

 

Boredpanda.com has done a nice job compiling 80 Banksy works:

 

http://www.boredpanda.com/80-beautiful-street-crimes-done-by-banksy/

 

 

Now.

 

Graffiti art is one of those things which certainly is polarizing.

 

Some old folk just see it simply as destroying or defacing property.

 

 

They suggest ‘there are rules and this breaks them’ and they say things like ‘if they are that talented why don’t they do it like the classic artists did it?’

 

 

You read things like this:graffitti how did they

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James S&%*&@#h

  • • 4 years ago

 

Artist? All graffiti people are vandals engaged in destroying other people’s property and calling it “art”. The should all be in jail and taken out each day to clean their scribblings off walls, then returned to jail each night.

True, some show real talent.

So then let them paint on canvas or other media that belongs to them. If I catch anyone spray painting my walls, they will never do it again after I break both their hands and arms. Damn vandals.

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Uhm.

‘damn vandals’?.

I imagine that is the issue … artists or vandals.

 

 

Well.

 

That is certainly a question that everyone will have to answer all by their lonesome.

 

 

Artists are artists because they make their own rules.

 

That is what creativity is all about.

 

 

And in the end … I think Banksy has the right idea:

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“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world povertygraffiti art men crack you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”

Banksy

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All I can end with is to say art is supposed to make us think … and art typically changes how we think about things.

 

I would then suggest good graffiti is art.

 

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