Graffiti: What Is Gang Related?

What is graffiti? Could it be that it is gang related? Well no it's not graffiti is a special kind of art that people do. These people are talented, some do it to express themselves and show their feeling out to the world. Gang members tag which is a big difference from graffiti. Graffiti is art and people have the right to do it if they want to. One morning you can pass by a plain white wall and the next morning or later in the afternoon it can be painted with beautiful colors and a nice picture. Mary Trotter a spokesperson for a commercial group sponsoring a graffiti art convert said “ Graffiti artists want to communicate something with us but we're not listening” These artists are trying to send us a message, they probably
Heather Mac Donald says that graffiti is produced by gangs. Gangs probably started tagging but other people decide to make it better and call it graffiti. Gonzalez says “ The line between tagging and gangbanging is very thin now” tagging is what gangbangers do and graffiti is for artist people that do better stuff with their talent. If you notice people that tag on walls theirs tagging doesn't stay there for a long time it gets painted over and on the other hand people that do art on walls or as it is best known people that do graffiti on walls their work actually stays wherever they do it because people don't complain about it. In an article called Breaking Into One of Los Angeles Toughest Boy Clubs a young graffiti artist says “ I just kept practicing with spray painting. My piece got bigger and more complex…” She met up with new up and coming artist her projects kept growing. From doing political posters to doing full colored murals. Graffiti can not always get you in a gang but it can also help you stay out of
Heather Mac Donald mentions Carlos Mesa in her article he claims that he followed his mentor into graffiti and drugs. Carlos blames his mistakes on one person his mentor but when in reality it was his own choice I don't think his mentor threatened him to do something he didn't want to do he obviously knew what he was doing he knew the consequences Carlos should mature more and take the responsibility for his mistakes. She also brings up how “every midnight hour a child spends “tagging” or “piecing” is an hour not spent studying or sleeping” I have people on my life who do graffiti but they still do their homeworks and have better grades than me. Some kids do that because they rather express their feelings out to the world instead of keeping their emotions in. With some teenagers an emotion can actually bring them down or ruin their whole day. A reason why people don't like graffiti is because it challenges authority and represents the people's voice without any infiltration. Heather says that graffiti museums are expected to be crowded with with just blacks and Hispanics. Racism has nothing to do with graffiti anyone that has that talent does