| Graffiti is Vandalism‚ Not Art | | | STUDENT NO: | 16 MARCH 2011 | The thread of this simple essay will centre on the controversy surrounding “graffiti art”—is it art or simply vandalism. The paper will explore the true meaning of graffiti art‚ characteristics of common graffiti which includes a background history of its evolution in society‚ the different motives of artists who uses graffiti art‚ the conclusive facts that stem from my own point of view‚ and what the future holds
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WHAT TO KHOW ABOUT GRAFFITI I am absolutely sure that everybody here has heard words like “graffiti” or “street art”. But I’m not sure that you know the exactly meaning of it or its history. Am I right? Don’t you know? So today I will expend your knowledge about graffiti. Wikipedia tells as that Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled‚ scratched‚ or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. I can’t contend with that‚ but I understand the word “graffiti” as something spiritual
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beautiful and so illegal when put on certain places. Graffiti is a multiple side argument that has many different points of views. The mayor of Seattle is inviting the public to join in on the debate of wither graffiti is art or vandalism. Graffiti is such a broad topic‚ so I narrowed it down to graffiti murals. Graffiti murals are art‚ they take time and skill‚ bring color to dead and dark places‚ and artists can get paid to make them. Graffiti murals take time and skill. They aren’t just easy
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Graffiti Art There are many different forms of art‚ from paintings to photography and sculptures to graffiti‚ and many historical‚ famous artworks relay a message to the world. For example‚ Edvard Munch’s painting‚ the scream‚ shows fear‚ Vincent Van Gogh’s painting‚ the starry night‚ expresses a more whimsical and elegant feeling‚ while Grant Wood’s artwork‚ american gothic‚ has a serious yet awkward tone. Many kinds of art can send messages and even graffiti. Graffiti is “writing or drawings
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Graffiti Is graffiti an art or vandalism? In my opinion graffiti is one of the most creative art that is not recognized simply because how it is displayed. Let’s say artists like Picasso‚ Leonard‚ or any famous artist decided to paint of their masterpiece in somewhere at a building then would it still be considered as art or will it be thrown away since they decided to call it graffiti? Graffiti is the plural form of the Italian word grafficar. In plural‚ grafficar signifies drawings‚ markings
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Graffiti: art or vandalism. Some people think that graffiti is an art‚ others - that it is vandalism. What’s right? There are so many different opinions. Back in the 70s‚ graffiti was an example of anti-social behavior. Nowadays‚ we call it “Street Art” and you can see it in unexpected places and on different things: on clothes‚ on toys‚ on billboards and even on the Wall Street Journal’s official website. Graffiti is an art and we should appreciate and value what artists want to tell us and how
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The Writing on the Wall: the Effects of Graffiti on Society | When the Walls Talk: Graffiti and its effects on society | | | Fernando Gomez Cabral | ITT-Technical Institute Corona‚ CAMrs. DixonEN1320 Composition I | | Graffiti as an art form is a controversial subject in the art world. Is it vandalism‚ or is it art? Graffiti itself has come a long way from just being scrawls in a bathroom or random tags on a wall. It has been embraced worldwide by the hip hop culture as a
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Art is defined as the expression or application of human creativity and imagination. And graffiti is a synonym of art; it is a form of painting with walls as the canvas. It is an expression of every feeling in every moment and place. Graffiti can be understood in many different ways. But no matter the canvas walls‚ trains‚ or buildings‚ graffiti is art. The artists use graffiti as a way of expression to society. They want to show the world reality and they want people “to acknowledge the absurdities
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History of Graffiti The writing on walls has been a creative act of self expression for thousands of years. Beginning with cave paintings depicting the everyday life of tribes of early humans to political messages in the early days of the Roman Empire. Since then‚ the writing on walls has evolved to a more modern platform. It has evolved into a phenomenon that we now call Graffiti. The roots of this once subculture artform is not entirely established in certainty. Graffiti is thought
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reasons were for writing graffiti. He’s been "writing" for the past six years. The word GRAFFITI simply means--words or drawings scratched or scribbled on a wall. The word comes from the Greek term "graphein" (to write) and the word "grafitti" itself is plural of the Italian word "graffito." Art in the form of graffiti (graffiti by style and considered so only if it appears on public or private property without permission) originated in the late 1960s‚ but graffiti in term of public and unsolicited
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