My Name In Graffiti Style Lettering

Graffiti - My Name In Graffiti Style Lettering

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. The Murals of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Artist Profiles
... Gallery (Graffiti Art Programming ... first portrait of my music teacher plus ... more contemporary style; they tended to ... the graphic sign lettering side of the ... graphics, you name it. Regardless of ...
http://www.themuralsofwin ...tistProfile.php?ID=31

2. The Love Boat from Hell
... in large, Asian-style lettering, while others ... across. Some wrote the name of their girlfriend or ... remember writing the graffiti. But they all ... that ever happened in my lifetime. She's the one ...
http://www.manchu.org/country/walker1.htm

3. Tattoo - Online Tips Tattoo
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4. http://www.crispinsartwell.com/graff.htm
... or a futuristic style. And at this ... message and your name and your image to ... actually dug up my phone number and ... no real risk. Graffiti is of necessity ... the signature: lettering and hand ...

5. NEWS from me
... computer lettering can ... broad or loose in style. Like I wrote in ... remember George's name, so the caption ... to succeed." Got my own cab. JACK ... in American Graffiti where the kid ...
http://www.povonline.com/2003/News010103.htm

6. Tattoo Photo Galleries information, articles and current events
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7. http://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/bagshaw.html
... very good care of my artwork, and hate ... another name for Rastas ... a quite different style of wall-painting ... definition of"graffiti"is"an ... in the typical lettering of graffiti ...

8. Novato Real Estate - Ted Strodder
http://www.northmarin.com ...ornia-real-estate.asp

9. ebr11 --<amerika
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr11/11tal.htm

10. HayesChrisJanFeb
... was to write a fable in the style of James Thurber. Since the ... large with a squared-off head. My father went out to investigate ... live with us. Blacklick got its name from H.G. Black, who owned the ...
http://www.shortnorth.com/Hayes.html

11. Rank Strangers
http://www.noguru.com/cat ...tem/435016/644536.htm

12. a man, a woman, no plan
... a cafe, but the name is also a brand ... raised-metallic-lettering sort. I'm ... have..... SECRETS! My world is crumbling ... wonderful local-style pizzas and ... the way, we saw graffiti scrawled on the ...
http://www.barryland.com/panama.html

13. D.J. Junk's Graffiti profile
... easily pick up a lettering style when I'd seen it ... with the standard of my first piece, which was ... me as the new king of graffiti in Bournemouth ... way who thought of the name 'Second To None'). In ...
http://www.secondtonone.c ...junk graf profile.htm

14. NORM BREYFOGLE @ ADELAIDE COMICS AND BOOKS
... pencilling, inking, lettering and hand painting ... you come about such a style and was there any ... was really very much in my heart when I was ... Iíd say the first big name was Neal Adams. There ...
http://www.adelaidecomics ...oks.com/breyfogle.htm

15. Gen Kanai weblog: August 2002 Archives
... so what you see is the name, address, and then the ... St Marks Pl Hiroshima style okonomiyaki (7.00 ... on the way to pick up my son at summer camp ... and books of Japanese graffiti to a collection ...
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2002/08/

16. Taxim Records: Rank Strangers
... makes it a perfect name for a band that fits ... are both classics in style and content. Memories ... of the favorite songs of my teenage years. Hank ... graffiti placa for the cover. Those lettering ...
http://www.taxim.com/items/tx3021.htm