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    Prep English Graffiti or Vandalism? All around the world‚ you will find drawings on buildings. But they’re not just regular drawings. It’s known as Graffiti. Graffiti has its own characteristics. Not many people are fond with this type of "Art" as some call it. A question which concerns all graffiti artist and non graffiti artist‚ is it consider Art? Or is it consider Vandalism? In other terms‚ when is Graffiti art? and when is Graffiti Vandalism? They’re many types of graffiti‚ most common one

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    One common objection is that graffiti is not art because it is vandalism and hence a criminal act. While it is true that it can be vandalism and a criminal act‚ these facts would not seem to have a bearing on its status of being art. The mere fact that something is illegal or classified as vandalism hardly seems sufficient to make something fall outside of the realm of art. After all‚ imagine a state in which music was a criminal act and labeled as a vandalism of the public sound space. It would

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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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    Graffiti artists often produce artworks which deliver social‚ political or religious issues in the urban space within a society. Graffiti artists are built to embody cultural groups and within their graffiti works reflect on a range of issues‚ in order to cause an impression on the audience who pass by (Young 2012‚ 297). Artists often represent social and political issues in their works in order to state combinations of statements and argue how they get accused or seized by the law in producing such

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    brings new art. “Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled‚ scratched‚ or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place “‚ says Wikipedia. This kind of drawing exists since human started drawing. Examples of first graffiti drawing were found in the walls of Pompeii and Catacombs of Rome‚ and considered as an art form. However‚ modern graffers usually are being sent to jail for drawing on public walls. Graffiti is not an art form anymore‚ now it’s a crime. If you ask

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    Graffiti Vs. Modern art

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    Have you ever wanted to live in a free from religion‚no war or limted money problems society? If you even lived or experience the lifestyle of an average american ‚you would know you can established any dream that you have diffuculty facing. The American Dream is about overcoming any type of goal without any restrictions. Unlike many other countries American’s don’t live in a communist society. America will provide you with good education‚ a home for you or your family and alot of job oppertunities

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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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    Every piece of art has a meaning behind it‚ whether it be obvious or a little more vague. Graffiti is just another way for people to express themselves through art. Nobody got mad at Michelangelo when he painted all over the Sistine Chapel‚ and nobody called it vandalism. Although some say it is vandalism rather than artgraffiti should be considered art because it takes time‚ emotion‚ and creativity‚ just like any good painting‚ the only difference being the canvas. If graffiti shouldn’t be

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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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