JR is a 25-year-old middle-classman of the Parisian background. He never reveals his full name because he says it would add nothing to the art. In his teenage years‚ he tagged as a graffiti artist‚ but only started taking photographs when he was 17-year-old when he found a camera on the Paris Métro. JR calls himself an "urban artivist". He creates art that he displays on buildings in the Paris projects‚ walls of the Middle East‚ and other countries across the world. During the pasting phase‚ the
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Deiveon Duncan English 101-A06 Mrs. Autenzio 11 October 2017 Graffiti Research Paper Graffiti is the term given to letters‚ images or artwork that is painted‚ sketched‚ marked down or drawn in any manner on property. Just like any other piece of art‚ graffiti is an expression. It can easily be argued that graffiti is the biggest art movement we have ever seen‚ especially on a global scale. The use of Graffiti dates back centuries‚ where walls and trees and mountain rock where used as a canvas for
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Liam Eifert English 802 October 12‚ 2014 Graffiti in Urban Society Defining what is or is not art is difficult. Another concept that is difficult to define is what constitutes a crime and why something is considered a crime. In the case of graffiti and street art‚ both of these difficult concepts collide‚ creating a very controversial subject. Since the beginning of simple hip hop graffiti in Philadelphia during the 1960s‚ graffiti has evolved into many different forms and has developed a subculture
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Although the amount of atrocious graffiti that has increased throughout the years‚ it could all be put to a halt. Graffiti is something that should never be done to anything such as schools‚ memorials‚ tombstones‚ the city property and many others. Graffiti may look really pretty on trains and on walls‚ but it is against the law. You could put a halt to graffiti by making numerous people watch the hallways and stand outside during school hours. If there were more people standing in the hallway or
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Graffiti has been an issue that generates concern to the modern society throughout the world and originating a controversy of it being classified as a legitimate art form or vandalism. For the purpose of discussing this issue‚ it is essential to understand the terms of graffiti‚ art and vandalism. Graffiti can be described as the act of marking by the use of spray-paints‚ markers or other tools on a surface‚ usually a visible spot‚ with the intention to attract attention from the general community
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Siobhan Boyle Research Paper From cave drawings to hieroglyphics to the streets of New York‚ graffiti and street art have made their marks as the most ancient form of resilient communication. Whether viewed through the lens of skeptics or supporters‚ the practice remains in the gray area of legality‚ despite it’s remarkable positive artistic and creative worth. Graffiti has many unsung beneficial traits‚ and encompasses an entire urban culture‚ as is highlighted in The New York Times
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Next‚ graffiti is acknowledged by many people and it causes no harm to people. The first place that graffiti receives acknowledgement from is other graffiti writers. In “Documenting Illegal Art: Collaborative Software‚ Online Environment and New York City’s 1970s and 1980s Graffiti Art Movement” by Rachel Masilamani‚ she talked about the social movement of graffiti. She wrote‚ “At its heart‚ graffiti is about documenting presence; it is a way of saying ‘I was here‚’ but up until the early 1970s writers
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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." Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours France‚ and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass‚ which kept up a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His work
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to release a film in the early 1970’s‚ just before all this would change. George Lucas did just that‚ with his 1973‚ released of the nostalgic move American Graffiti. Classic custom cars‚ friendship‚ and fear of what the future holds are classic interplays between social and cultural tensions in American Graffiti. In the film American Graffiti‚ George Lucas sets out to make a nostalgic film‚ which would play into his own life‚ and what was on everyone else’s mind at that time in society (Dewitt 47-50)
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through photos‚ paintings‚ writing‚ or music art is everywhere. The oldest art is estimated to be roughly forty thousand years old graffiti paintings in Indonesia. Today graffiti has a negative connotation as destructive or negative in society due to the fact that it is art done without permission on someone else’s property. However since the early 1960’s Graffiti art and murals have become much more widely accepted and recognized for their cultural and artistic value. Here in downtown phoenix
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