SRL Archive - Discussions & Debates

What do you think of Grafitti? I think of it as art - as long as it isn't in a disrespectful place. If it's on monuments, places of honor, or just somebody tagging their name in black spraypaint, I think it's more vandalism. But, when the artist shows true talent for it (you've probably seen what I mean - amazing shading, colors, etc) it's something worth looking at. I would much rather do to a museum of graffiti than a museum of people-drawing-lines-and-calling-it-art.
The shading, colors, and modern ness of it just seems to fit. What do you think of it?

They have entire parks filled with walls to graffiti on. It's really quite fun. Doing it on property that you don't have permission to do on is basically the definition of vandalism though

I think if its not just some trash like

f00k all y00 jewsss!!

or something bad like that, it is vandilism, if its like a good pic, its art.

i think neutrel most of the time its not yours (the wall)

It's pretty cool if it's done with permission. Definitely wrong if you do it to someone else's stuff, though.

'Graffiti' in itself is marking on a surface with which the 'artist' does not have the right to mark on. When they have been given permission to paint somewhere, it becomes 'an art' and no longer vandalism.

Graffiti = vandalism
Art = non-vandalism

By 'Graffiti', I just meant the spraypaint stuff in general :D

How it this not art? By: Banksy
Here

I know that there are idiots that just spray crap all over the place but there are very good artist that show them selves through graffiti

By: Julian Beever

~Stupedspam

wow nice things posted by stupedspam, i say that's art.

but the 'tagz' in grafity world, i don't like them.

If they had an permission to paint them and they do pictures and not text, I think of it as art. It looks nice :p