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Graffiti - Graffiti 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. Parts For Bostich Pencil Sharpeners
... Office pencil GOLF PENCILS Color with colored pencils Portrait of people in pencil Graffiti Pencil Drawings How mechanical pencils and pens are made Pencils c Pencils featuring Diagram of a ...
http://www.pencils-for-dr ...ch-pencil-sharpeners/ |
2. Design Bookshelf Books
... and lavish photo journalism in Melbourn, the Graffiti Capital Type Rules! is BACK The Designer's ... ... Photoshop Tutorial: Photoshop Pixels to Pencil Drawings Shoot-out: Photoshop or Elements? Which is ...
http://www.design-bookshelf.com/ |
3. Site Builder
... The drawings contain visual marks and graffiti. The drawings are cut up and incorporated into the monotypes. The monotypes are cut up and collaged to form still another 2-D image. Some are then ...
http://www.majeski3dart.50megs.com/ |
4.
... Graffiti can take the form of art, drawings, or words, and is illegal vandalism when done without ... ... Graffiti originally was the term used for inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls ...
http://graffiti.kiwiki.homeip.net/ |
5. Low Ryder - Drifting Drawings - 240 sx drifting - graffiti drawings of lowriders
... com drawings of low riders, graffiti drawings of lowriders, d1 drifting, Car Drifting, Yacht Drawings, lowrider drawings, drawings art of lowriders, rx-7 drifting, drifting car, HULK HOGAN Drawings ...
http://drifting-drawings. ...rifting-drawings.html |
6. art events
... of marks. Nature triggers the work; in the drawings and sculpture she tries to create details ... ... storytelling, how-to books, flower arranging, graffiti, flea markets and art brut. Theater Gallery ...
http://www.union.wisc.edu/art/ |
7. From brands with a pedigree: Bags vs. clothes - Style - International Herald...
... Valentino gave a graphic edge to modern glamour, reworking his signature bows and ruffles in stark black and white - and then contained Jean-Michel Basquiat's striking graffiti drawings within a ...
http://iht.com/articles/2 ...06/opinion/rfinal.php |
8. Low Ryder - Drawings Of Flowers - graffiti drawings of lowriders - low rider...
... drawings of flowers, may flowers, Drawings of Hulk Hogan, dog flowers, pro flowers, graffiti drawings of lowriders, Leonardo DaVinci drawings, depressed drawings, flowers uk, flowers, where ...
http://drawings-of-flower ...wings-of-flowers.html |
9. BuffMonster.com: Los Angeles street art and graffiti
... did the cover of a Less Than Jake remix CD. 3 drawings: Now that its summer time, its time to get in ... ... elusive, it thrives in a city with a historic graffiti problem. The Monster manifest itself in ...
http://www.buffmonster.com/ |
10. Artician World Wide Art & Design Community - Traditional | Photography & Tra...
... 2006 04:20 PM Last Post: Loch a few photos marc 1 84 04-02-2006 11:19 AM Last Post: force graffiti | drawings Zenko 2 146 03-19-2006 10:00 PM Last Post: SirMaroc Graffiti skecthes and Images section 8 ...
http://forum.artician.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=53 |
11. Site Map - Chez Goodman
... my guest book. Graffiti Drawings on a wall from our readers. Linkback Page Links back to some sites that link to us. G P D A Copyright © 2004 David K. Goodman. All Rights Reserved. Updated 7/8/2004
http://www.dkgoodman.com/map.html |
12. http://www.darrellpeck.com/travel/1961-paris-sharon/page01.htm
... The most unusual thing here was the "Karzer, a student prison with the walls covered with graffiti drawings and inscriptions, mostly in Latin. (Our word incarcerate comes from Karzer.) We walked ...
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13. from jesus to christ: why did christianity succeed?: the rise of christianit...
... Consider, then, the archaeological discovery that the walls of Pompeii abound in extremely blasphemous graffiti and drawings, some of them very obscene as well. While I harbor no thoughts that these ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/p ...y/starksociology.html |
14. The NoGraf Network
... On the other hand, Coca Cola awards prizes in the same City with graffiti-like drawings being the result, and with graffiti vandals elevated to new stature as "recognized street artists". There does ...
http://www.nograffiti.com/letters/Index.htm |
15. Visual: Aztec drawings, Frida Kahlo, Cruz, Anibal Mancilla, Cesar Rodriguez,...
Writing stories with light A story teller of a different type, Mexican photographer Anibal Mancilla ...
http://www.mosaico21.com/ ...al/homepagevisual.htm |
16. wall murals
... computer graphics files, original paintings or drawings, all work great. Most of these companies will ... ... downtown Lake Wales. [Campus] Time allowed for graffiti cleanup halved (The Minnesota Daily) Owners ...
http://www.wallmural.org/ |
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