”Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases.’’ By: Banksy‘’Graffiti first began in Philadelphia in the 1960s.’’ ’’ Since then, city leaders have tended to condemn it as mindless vandalism. The U.K. spends $1.3 billion on cleaning up graffiti each year.’’: I believe that graffiti should be legal but only in certain parts of the world. Graffiti is people's feelings on walls and there will be no more plain brown walls. There will be beautiful art that people have talent to do.My reason is because many people have talent and I agree it should not be every like not in cities but in little countries i don't see anything
“Legal or not, as graffiti seeps into the fabric of neighborhoods, it becomes a natural part of everyday life in the city” (The Guardian). There is graffiti everywhere nowadays and the government takes down the ones that do not follow their expectations. Governments should allow people to do graffiti because people use graffiti to express themselves and their art styles.
In the summer of 2013, a graffiti artist by the name of 'Lady Pink' had police barge into her house in Queens and arrest her husband for vandalism. They took her art supplies, photo archives, and many of her prized possessions. She had to sit there, helpless, watching police take away her things. In today's world right now, expressing yourself creatively is one of the most important things you can do to help figure out who you are. A part of creative expression is art. Art makes people happy. Graffiti falls into the art category. For some people, graffiti is what they do to express themselves. Graffiti is art and shouldn't be illegal. Expressing yourself creatively shouldn't be a crime.
Graffiti has been around for more than half a decade and practiced worldwide. However there is debate between whether it is a form of art or vandalism. Graffiti artists’ debate that many do not understand the reason most graffiti artist take the risk of incarceration, fines, injuries, and in some cases death to paint a wall. A graffiti artist can have the simple desire to become recognized, or to create a piece that speaks to their audience as a form of self expression. Because graffiti is associated with gangs and acts of destruction to some many cannot see the history and importance graffiti can have on a worldwide scale. Due to the fact that graffiti is usually produced illegally, meaning it is
Most people can argue that there is a fine distinction between what is recognized as art and vandalism. The individual is often faced with uncertainty when the topic of graffiti arises. The public often portray graffiti as a destructive act towards his or her surroundings however; graffiti can also be considered a form of self-expression. Many questions can be made pertaining to the graffiti movement, but the main question is graffiti a crime or an art? The answers lie in the complex phrase of “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
In “Graffiti as Career and Ideology”, Lachmann states that organizations “tried to win their members recognition as serious artists by encouraging writers to produce graffiti-style works on canvas and various other media with a view toward their sale to art collectors” (246). Rather than stopping graffiti writers, they are being encouraged to keep producing graffiti-style works to sell. While they aren’t vandalizing anymore and they are producing art on canvas, it is unexpected to further support these “criminals” like the organizations are doing. Some graffiti is even so respected and praised that it is protected. The perfect example of this is that “The stencil work and street art of British artist Banksy, possibly the most well-known contemporary graffiti writer/street artist, has gained such value as a commodity that the work on some of his walls is now protected under the aegis of urban heritage” (McAuliffe and Iveson 139). How can graffiti and its writers be so frowned upon but so many people still praise
Through the use of pathos, camera angle and color, the supposed antagonist of the commercial is transformed into the protagonist. Without the use of these persuasive tools, the advertisement is misleading to the viewer.
People do graffiti for a job or to express their feelings to the world it's a really good job and yet it's illegal for people to do which makes it hard.
There is a lack of supporting evidence about graffiti information such as why people engage in vandalism and how it impacts on communities and so on. This article is useful for my research topic because this book’s focus is on street artists and legal street art. There was a lot of information about street
Since the birth of graffiti in the 1960’s many people were or are either thrown in jail, have to pay a high fine in graffiti damages or are either asked to do graffiti in many museums and art galleries because owners like the art they see and want others to see it too. Graffiti has been around for some time now, most people and the police just see it as a form of destruction and not art they should not just see it as something that is good or evil because these artists are expressing themselves through this art and trying to spread a message. The United States and the U.K need to accept the art and nature or meaning behind this graffiti because it is a way for people to do good things other than rob or go to jail it is also a way for people to get their message out and have others hear them or see them in an artistic way.
To understand graffiti, we shall open up our mindsets to the perspective that it is typically seen as a form of street art which involves tagging, but also involves the creation of more complex paintings. Graffiti and street art are the most globally operating forms of art we have seen so far: influenced by every culture they visit, graffiti writers and street artists travel the world to paint together and learn from each other. From its earliest days, it was done outside the law, with writers taking big risks when making their works, this sometimes leading to their arrests. Joe Capozzi, author of the ‘Mural Mystery: Was Graffiti Vandalism?’ article for The Palm Beach Post, asked “was it vandalism or a publicity stunt by the artist? And if
Graffiti artists should be able to express themselves without being fined for their own creativity. Unfortunately, cities seek clean-up for street art, in which artists find themselves being charged for a $6,500 fine or prosecuted (Newsela). Painters should not be charged for putting their time, effort, and heart into a painting for others to enjoy. Not only are these paintings for enjoyment, but bring attention to issues that need to be resolved. The skill of an artist should not determine if they can or cannot paint street art. Although it would be understandable if their artwork was inappropriate. Luckily, not all cities are banning graffiti, Buenos Aires is a city where the paintings on walls tell stories of the past and represents “resistance
Linda Ngo, author of the opinion piece “Graffiti is a Beautiful 'Crime'” (2017), argues that graffiti should be legalized on grounds that it is an artistic expression of free speech. Ngo uses many comparisons between graffiti, which she claims is harmless, to many legal activities that cause people harm. Her purpose in writing this paper is to establish a legal form of graffiti to protect graffiti artists from legal action. Ngo's target audience for this paper is peers who may have different views on graffiti and its purpose.
The value of any message or work of art, whether it is hanging on the wall of a gallery or a subway, lies on the intensity of the artist’s or vandal’s beliefs. Graffiti is an uncertain issue in respect to its virtue. While the voice of the individual must never be lost in a society of shouts growing larger and louder every second; graffiti is such a public medium that its integrity must be of great concern. Graffiti is a vast wasteland of indefinite opinions. Foremost graffiti is illegal and a form of vandalism, it invades peoples privacy and destroys their property. However, graffiti can be a means by which one may permanently express one’s self. It has the potential to convey a powerful, relevant
Some graffiti are relevant to the indelicacy or have no meaning which make people feel irksome and also have a bad effect on the appearance of a city. There are two debates of graffiti----street art and vandalism, which means it should be distinguished between two forms of graffiti. For example, it should not be connected between the graffiti of Banksy, who is an English-based graffiti artist and the people who draw some indelicate words or painting on the public place(Figure 1 and figure 2). Everyone can judge these two which is street art because the intentions are different. The latter is just draw some offensive graffiti and have no meaning or intention(Miller, 2014). Finding a suitable place is also an essential point. If a good graffiti in a unsuitable place, it is also a vandalism. The reason is that a city
Graffiti has put a major impact on the way people look at their everyday life. It was not used so much here in the United States but was used overseas. Overseas, graffiti, or street art, was used or played as a sport, just like baseball is Americas sport. There are different laws that are put over there than what there are here. They can get away with some of the things that they paint or make over there. If we tried some of that type of work over here, we would get in trouble and possibly serve time for vandalizing someone else’s property. There are many biased outlooks on graffiti, but it should be considered art in all places because of all the time, effort, and design the artist put into their work.