2007-01-19 11:45:53 · 11 answers · asked by Stolen African 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Hi, my name is philip.
I just moved from europe and now I live in michigan...
I grew up with graffiti, heres the thing I started art when I was about 4 and by the age of 10 I started sketching and by the age of 12 I started graffiti.
I am a graffiti artists who adores http://www.thetruth.com
They try to get messages about tobacco out there through stickers, chalk, art, sculptures ETC...
You have 3 types of graffiti artists:
1- Writers who really are in to grafftiti, who maybe do some illegal stuff but only on old buildings or mostly on authorized buildings, people who demand it... And nowadays I would call it spray can art, or fine photorealistic graffiti, where you will not see as much names on a wall... just graphics and ART
2- Vandals, members of gangs like MS13 ones who just mark their turf or graffiti artists who want their name to be out there and sometimes people who just have money to bail out.
3- "Flase" graffiti writers: Artists who are great in fine arts and try out graffiti but dont have the feeling and *thing* to be a graffiti artist.
All 3 are ART related they are not, NOT ART... its like a carpenter its ART not wood carver, or musician its artistic
IT IS DEFINITELY A GOOD THING ( besides vandalism )
But hey vandals can see it as art in their eyes, like I did a photorealistic mocking bird on a wall,... or when you want people to know things like how many people die from tobacco each year yo uhave Graffiti artists / vinylists who stick and spray Facts about tobacco.
it is ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
2007-01-23 12:53:01 · answer #1 · answered by philip han 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Graffiti is the unofficial application of graphics on publicly viewable surfaces. It is defined as being "a drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome".[1] When done without the property owner's consent, graffiti is a form of vandalism and is punishable by law in most countries.
Other than simply showing off the artist's name and artwork, graffiti has been employed for other purposes as well. It has been used in the past to spread social and political messages, and as a form of advertising. It is also considered a modern art form, and can be seen in galleries around the world.
A tag is also used by an artist after producing a peice of graffiti on a wall or canvas. Each artist has their own styles and techniques to producing a tag.
Graffiti has existed at least since the days of ancient civilizations such as Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.[2] It has evolved over time into what is known as "modern graffiti"; the public defacing of a surface using spray paint, markers, or other materials.
2007-01-19 11:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Irene Soh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is just tagging someone's initials then, NO I don't consider it art. If it is an image or images or some text that's colorfully done and has a great style, then absolutely. And, alot of it is beautiful and reads like poetry. It can be powerful. It's the people's art.
2007-01-20 06:06:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not when it brings down my property value. Our city has turned from a pretty nice small town to looking like a gang infested getto because everyone now thinks graffiti is O.K., self expression is King. Murals are nice, in any style-even spraypaint.
2007-01-20 03:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by Joan H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's certainly, certainly paintings. purely like the cave men in prehistoric situations, that's a tribal marking and each bit as lots paintings as something on Park street. i've got been amassing graffiti paintings in photographs for years, oftentimes L.A. and west coast areas. yet vandalism is against the regulation, and could proceed to be so. those artists might desire to discover some way of expressing their paintings in a different media.
2016-10-07 10:22:02 · answer #5 · answered by murchison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would consider it a type of pop culture art
2007-01-22 17:08:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Jean-Michel Basquiat's work. He is famous painter known for his graffiti. His personal story is as amazing as his work.
2007-01-20 10:50:11 · answer #7 · answered by lobster20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just about everything has a hint of artness in it.
2007-01-19 11:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends.
Is it on someone else's private property? On gov't owned (tax-payer financed) walls? On the side of train, bus, or truck?
Then, NO.
2007-01-19 11:51:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, just as long as it doesn't vandalize any one's property. I love spray paint
2007-01-19 16:52:05 · answer #10 · answered by iansbaby17 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋