As kids, authors Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon tagged city walls. Today, Gastman is a gatekeeper between the underground artists who work on the street and the mainstream world of galleries; Neelon, a Harvard grad, is a graffiti artist and educator. Young people were the key players in shaping the contemporary graffiti movement, says Neelon.
The first modern graffiti writer is widely considered to be Cornbread, a high school student from Philadelphia, who in started tagging city walls to get the attention of a girl. But it was only in the s that galleries began to showcase graffiti as artwork. Today, auctioneers and collectors shell out thousands of dollars for graffiti-style pieces. And before Marc Ecko and Shepard Fairey were household names designing clothes or Obama campaign posters, they were and still are sometime street artists.
But graffiti is, by definition, a defiant and public exhibition. Gabriel Graffiti is art for me. It carries an idea, a feeling, an emotion, so it's art. Also, it represents freedom and can make cities look more vibrant and attractive. Graffiti is not just letters that you put on a wall to the eyes of people who think it's looking pretty.
It's a whole culture. In some countries, it is also more recognized than in others. There is a moral barrier that must not be crossed.
Graffiti can fall under the category of vandalism or "degradation" when it is a casual tag on an old wall that has no meaning, which can create many problems and conflicts. All right, to start with my opinion about graffiti.
To me, graffitialways has been art! During years and years ago, mankind always wanted to exprime him self through writing, speaking and We need to show our feelings and embellish places : Look at the cave of Lascaux, there are beautiful and now, precious. Why don't people think that street art and graffiti aren't the same type of art?
Graffiti are an activity, a passion, a true love to exprime what you feel and what you think and a obsession to put some colors on cities!
All that huge ugly and grey building need to be more beautiful. Of course there are risks and dangers because in certain terms, that's illegal. That's why i think we need to open a lot of places and building to draw what ever we want!
For me graffiti is an art form that allows every individual to express themselves. Graffiti isn't just a few doodles. On the one hand, I am totally agree with that man who said that graffity that painted somewhere without owner's permission is a vandalism. On the other hand, there are some abundant places in our towns and cities which became beautiful places with graffity in it.
I am talking about graffity masterpeaces, but not about ugly obscene language on the walls. It makes places look awful and creepy. I call those kind of graffity artists vansdals. They should be punished hard.
I think graffities are art, but also it's sort of vandals, too. Because if the spray-painting is on the public places or the other people's properties, it can be a crime! Imagine the scene which one day when you wake up and go to your store or builiding , there are some doodling. It is against the defamation law. At least you would be declared to arrested to go to the prison. The people who see that graffities might be very upset.
And usually it is difficult to understand the graffities, isn't it? I am sure you can't. So I wish the graffiti drawers not to spray everywhere they can see. But in the good conditions, I am for the graffiti is art. But they were not, it was thought, oooooold -old. They couldn't have been created, their finders figured, much more than 10, years ago.
Had they been any older, everyone assumed, they would have faded away in the humid tropical air. But you know what they say about assumptions.
According to a paper published today in the journal Nature , those paintings, etched into those caves, are much older than those first scientists had thought. Tens of thousands of years older, in fact.
So old that they are now thought to be the oldest known specimens of art in the world. If art is one of the things that make us human … then it seems we've been human for even longer than we've realized. That it took us so long to make that realization, though, is a reminder of some other things that make us human: technological limitation, resource limitation, cultural myopia.
It's long been assumed that the oldest human paintings were created in Europe, in the caves of France and Spain.
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