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Graffiti - Graffiti Character Drawings
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.
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Some Other Useful Web Resources
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1. Galeropia: Bikes Against Bush (Joshua Kinberg)
... cultural storm.î10 The cyclist is the central character of Bikes Against Bush in its street ... ... mutant bicycleî ó a bicycle that prints chalk graffiti. Paul Revereís midnight ride Paul Revereís ...
http://dev.galeropia.org/ ...bikesagainstbush.html |
2. New Line Auction | Chevon Hicks
... and painted all of the drawings using my favorite program ... this world and add even more character dimension to the Burger ... Camus, Oldenburg, Koons, graffiti art, rave flyers, graphic ...
http://www.newline.com/nl ...von_haroldkumar.shtml |
3. Chakras Art : Chakra Balancing : Chakra Painting for sale
http://www.info-team.co.u ...hakra.digital.art.php
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4. Municipal Art Gallery of Chania
... more detailed elaboration. Drawings do offer a good view of the ... popular ìshadow theaterî and graffiti and in comics. Artists ... details as well as individual character traits. Individuality is ...
http://www.pinakothiki-ch ...lectors/index_en.html |
5. The notes books of Georges Starckmann, Plastician Artist - Drawings - Sculpt...
... Paris. Drawings, graffiti, monochromic and color lines, which are revealing with rightness the feelings, notes about places and people, summary full of character. His sculptures uses brazing, sticking ...
http://www.photographie.s ...mann.net/index-e.html |
6. In Flight Links - I feed my guinea pig broccoli to make him burpy
... Super Mario Bros. 2 Character Guide. Super Mario Bros. II ... Screenshots. A series of drawings from an isometric ... Photographs of street art graffiti. Updated daily. Zoom Quilt ...
http://www.nflight.com/nflightLinks.php |
7. Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
... adding fine details into drawings). I think it's pretty cool ... than pens, the pencil has character: it comes from nature - from ... it's good for men's room graffiti, VHS tapes, I even labeled ...
http://www.kk.org/cooltoo ...s/cat_paper_world.php |
8. I Like Drawing
... nice humans. I like the blue character with the opening mouth and I ... the time you spend with his drawings. www.we-make-money-not-art ... www.lounge37.com A world of graffiti, spray cans at the ready. I ...
http://www.ilikedrawing.co.uk/html/links.html |
9. The NoGraf Network
... prizes in the same City with graffiti-like drawings being the result, and with graffiti vandals ... ... a new ad campaign featuring graffiti (a graffiti character jumps off a tagged wall and follows ...
http://www.nograffiti.com/letters/Index.htm |
10. Your Painting Resource
... design graffiti free graffiti font graffiti animals graffiti artwork graffiti character drawings gallery graffiti images graffiti people graffiti problem graffiti symbols graffiti tags chris how to ...
http://www.besthomepainting.com/home-paint20.html |
11. http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/cont.html
... of New York has presented 9 Drawings for projection , the series ... collage, drawing on paper and graffiti. Their works recreate an ... Paris for a day. Th e third character is the young Morocco ...
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12. plugincinema.com
... saw as the impetus behind my drawings and translate it into a more ... I can output a HTML # character in the correct colour mapped ... it spies a piece of Banksy graffiti and gets inspired. The ...
http://www.plugincinema.c ...ugin_cinema/index.htm |
13. Hack your way out of writer’s block | 43 Folders
... I used to copy the board drawings, now I take HD pictures ... main characters step out of character for a moment and discuss the ... 7:17 Links for 24th Nov 2004 Graffiti Stencil Animation (make sure ...
http://www.43folders.com/ ...out-of-writers-block/ |
14. art reviews
... door they do it only in full character clichÈ, reddened from the ... pink of raw plaster. The graffiti on the top left of the ... the rich. And some scrappy drawings and photos of weird painted ...
http://www.worldwidereview.com/art reviews.htm |
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... Vegas Staedtler Duo Marker Graffiti Fabric Markers Velour Fabric ... Fur Sewing Machines Pencil Drawings Prismacolor Watercoloer ... Art Schools Drawing Character Cartoon Cases Quiltframes ...
http://www.ctmanu.com/crafts.html |
16. The Society of Figurative Arts :: View Forum - Daily Depository: Sketchbooks...
... 2006 5:12 pm isair Unfinished Character 1 TerianSilva 191 Wed Jan 11 ... Jennifer's doodles and drawings [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] 16 ... 2006 5:57 pm jen4eternity The Graffiti Thread 3 stalsby 221 Mon Jan ...
http://www.tsofa.com/foru ...913a419f2acc22c42e1be |
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