All Different Graffiti Alphabet Style

Graffiti - All Different Graffiti Alphabet Style

It doesn't matter where you live in the world, chances are you've seen graffiti somewhere around your local community. It seems to spring up in every culture, although it tends to be more prevalent in big cities.

But is it vandalism? Or is it art? That's a difficult question to answer, mainly because there are so many different types and styles of graffiti. The most basic form of graffiti is "tagging" - which is usually a simple graphic, usually letters, perhaps a play on the creator's initials or nicknames. Often small and monochrome, it's probably one of the most annoying and frustrating types of graffiti, because it is small enough to deface almost any surface, and is almost universally condemned as having no artistic merit.

Graffiti, however, isn't restricted to tagging. On larger surfaces, many graffiti artists employ multiple colors and intricate designs to create their pictures. This is the type of graffiti that starts to cross the line into being artistic. It's this type of graffiti art that is now being showcased in a number of art galleries, both in the USA and around the world.

The other problem with graffiti as art is that the issue is clouded by the location of the art. If some of these stunning designs were created on a canvas, or a wall specially set aside for the purpose, then it would be easier to recognize them as art. Unfortunately most graffiti is placed on private property, without the owner's consent, and so is less likely to be viewed as a welcome addition.

Around the world, communities and governments have become more vigilant in their attempts to reduce the amount of graffiti. In many places there are community groups or government funded teams who guarantee to clean up graffiti in 24 hours after it's reported. Trains in New York were given new coatings that allowed paint to just be "dissolved" off their surfaces.

In my own local area, the sale of spray paint to persons under 18 is illegal, and all spray paints are kept in locked display cupboards. Another area has a team of painters who regularly go around and repaint any fences that have been covered in graffiti. One homeowner I know has had his fence repainted 7 times so far! Over time, however, the amount of graffiti reappearing is reducing, which is a victory for the opponents of graffiti.

Still, simply removing the problem may in fact be a loss to the artistic community in general. If graffiti is considered in its most highly refined form, then are we in fact stopping artistic development in its tracks by making it impossible for budding graffiti artists to practice their craft?

When you illegally deface someone else's property, no matter how beautiful the art you create, you have still committed a crime. Maybe what we need to do is find ways that graffiti artists can learn and practice their craft, without needing to deface hundreds of properties in the process. Some communities now provide blank spaces and invite local graffiti artists to paint them. Others have graffiti walls, where anyone can paint whatever they want.

Maybe there needs to be a shift in the thinking of graffiti artists, so they can discover the value of painting on paper, rather than walls. Would the great painters of the past still be as famous today if they had painted on walls, rather than on canvas? The problem is complex, so finding a solution that makes everyone happy is unlikely to be simple.

1. 2005 DC Visit
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http://kryptos.yak.net/50

2. failure weblog: August 2005 Archives
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http://weblog.failure.net ...es/2005/08/index.html

3. Calligraphy
... Quite often different characters ... the Latin alphabet. Capital ... of script and all texts. He then ... minuscule style". The Fraktur ... However, graffiti-style lettering ...
http://www.fontco.com/calligraphy.php

4. Neal Stephenson : In the Beginning was the Command Line
http://newark.pardey.org/ ...the_command_line.html

5. A Dynamic Conceptual Blueprint for Spokane Arts in Community School (SpArCS)
... colorful work of graffiti, pulsating with ... term "arts" has had different meanings in the ... access to the range of all symbolic languages ... through her "visual alphabet", a lexicon of ...
http://www.ratical.com/many_worlds/SpArCS.html

6. Glyphs, Early Belize History
... languages and had different customs, but they ... Thompson, who dominated all Maya studies during the ... signs of the Landa 'alphabet' could not be ... in artistic Maya style, noted that the ...
http://ambergriscaye.com/earlyhistory/glyphs.html

7. art.blogging.la: March 2006 Archives
... Ed Fella. ALPHABET: AN EXHIBITION ... Fun, California Style, and Herb Alpert ... on who when you're all art geeks? Posted ... Los Angeles graffiti aliases ... made it different enough to be ...
http://art.blogging.la/archives/2006/03/

8. Bulletin boards
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http://www.alphabetsigns.com/directories.html

9. Ysenco
... the letters of the alphabet. Tags: beginners ... 20:37 Your "explanatory style" impacts your life ... and asking that all threats now be ... GPL, each with different constraints or ...
http://ysenco.halard.com/

10. Scrapability - Blogs on Scrapbooking and Other Paper Arts - Fonts & Dingbats
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http://scrapability.squarespace.com/fonts/

11. Glossary and FAQ's for Forensic Questionable Documents Examiner MaryAnn Czer...
... exhibit significantly different writing habits and ... wood or stone; graffiti on walls, mirror ... or even body writing are all documents that can be ... style of the 26 letters of the English alphabet ...
http://www.documents-exam ...ner-Glossary-FAQs.htm

12. »»Compilations Music Reviews««
... is sung by a different singer, the cd ... Skip down the alphabet and look for ... Aerosoul X-Men Style Beatz Hide Your ... all hip-hop DJs, all scratching" with ... an anthem to graffiti art that paints ...
http://www.megamusicrevie .../Compilations_16.html

13. Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - David Diaz
... The Disappearing Alphabet, Harcourt (New ... And above all, it was a book ... rapport between different races, and the ... heavy style, against a ... with neon-lit graffiti, peeling walls ...
http://www.galegroup.com/ ...es/chh/bio/diaz_d.htm

14. The Rune School - Links: Useful WWW Links
... Rune Poems The different rune poems ... The Rune Poems All the rune poems ... the heroic life style. It is available ... Runes: Alphabet of Mystery A ... by Viking graffiti inside the Maes ...
http://www.runeschool.org/links/