Graffiti: Activist Vandalism For generations graffiti has been appearing in streets across the world. Drawings‚ tags‚ statements painted across cities. Though sometimes called street art‚ there has been a long debate between scholars‚ policy makers‚ and artists about the status of such graffiti. Is it vandalism or art and what causes it. Most cities have laws against graffiti because it is considered vandalism and it harms the community. Today many formal artists use graffiti styles in their pieces
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"Graffiti is an art form" Or is it? There are many arguments for and against graffiti. In this essay‚ I will try to tackle the various aspects of these arguments‚ giving proof along the way. My interest in graffiti is purely artistic; I feel this essay may be more biased towards graffiti as an art form‚ as I think it is a beautiful and interesting branch of artistic talent and individualism. Is graffiti an Art Form?. There is an anonymous man‚ who I will refer to as Dain‚ in Switzerland who is an
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Anthony Driver Banksy Banksy is an English based graffiti artist‚ political activist‚ and film director whose identity is unknown. He is most known for is stencil graffiti which is when an artist uses an outline to produce an image that is easily reproduced. Most people would say that his style is similar to Blek le Rat aka the father of stencil graffiti. Banksy says he was inspired by an artist by the name of 3D. An artist who became one of the founding members of Massive Attack. He started
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Guetta a Real or a Fake In Banksy’s film Exit Through the Gift Shop‚ Banksy portrays the protagonist as a delusional man. Guetta ‚ an eclectic Frenchman‚ is obsessed with filming every aspect of life without importance of how insignificant it might be. While doing this he falls into filming the adventurous life of street artist. However‚ many of the scenes that depict Guetta are almost only there to discredit him as a filmmaker. And as if that were not enough‚ the film does a hilarious job of
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Jennifer Beck AMST 2103 February 5‚ 2013 O.J. Simpson Trial: How Racism and Culture Created a “Monster” Today in America‚ the idea that every man and woman is created equal is embedded into the brains of our youth at a young age. They are taught that every American citizen is entitled to equal rights regardless of his or her race‚ gender‚ or religious background. In spite of this‚ racism always has been‚ and always will be‚ a part of American culture. It is found everywhere. Racism exists
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The Writing on the Wall: the Effects of Graffiti on Society | When the Walls Talk: Graffiti and its effects on society | | | Fernando Gomez Cabral | ITT-Technical Institute Corona‚ CAMrs. DixonEN1320 Composition I | | Graffiti as an art form is a controversial subject in the art world. Is it vandalism‚ or is it art? Graffiti itself has come a long way from just being scrawls in a bathroom or random tags on a wall. It has been embraced worldwide by the hip hop culture as a
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What’s your pet peeve? Is it graffiti scrawled on building walls? Too much television commercials? Unnecessary violence in some movies? Something else that really bothers you? Write a multiple paragraph letter to the editor of your school newspaper persuading readers to consider your position regarding your pet peeve‚ including your proposed solution. Be sure to provide effective arguments and evidence in support of your position. Prompt; it seems as though rules are everywhere; at home‚ in school
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Graffiti: art or vandalism. Some people think that graffiti is an art‚ others - that it is vandalism. What’s right? There are so many different opinions. Back in the 70s‚ graffiti was an example of anti-social behavior. Nowadays‚ we call it “Street Art” and you can see it in unexpected places and on different things: on clothes‚ on toys‚ on billboards and even on the Wall Street Journal’s official website. Graffiti is an art and we should appreciate and value what artists want to tell us and how
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Art is defined as the expression or application of human creativity and imagination. And graffiti is a synonym of art; it is a form of painting with walls as the canvas. It is an expression of every feeling in every moment and place. Graffiti can be understood in many different ways. But no matter the canvas walls‚ trains‚ or buildings‚ graffiti is art. The artists use graffiti as a way of expression to society. They want to show the world reality and they want people “to acknowledge the absurdities
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Next‚ graffiti is acknowledged by many people and it causes no harm to people. The first place that graffiti receives acknowledgement from is other graffiti writers. In “Documenting Illegal Art: Collaborative Software‚ Online Environment and New York City’s 1970s and 1980s Graffiti Art Movement” by Rachel Masilamani‚ she talked about the social movement of graffiti. She wrote‚ “At its heart‚ graffiti is about documenting presence; it is a way of saying ‘I was here‚’ but up until the early 1970s writers
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