Oh dearest Kat,
My sister is an art teacher, I visited her degree show many years ago, one
exibit was a box, clear plastic with a hole and a fan attached to the hole,
there were also some holes to let the air out, inside the box were locusts,
cockroaches and all sorts of insects being blown about.
Now thats ART.
Now thats Art, graffiti could be art but only in the right environment, if
we were in a communist state and our only form of expression against the
state was writing on a wall, then that is a valid expression of our feeling
as all other avenues are closed off, but we live in a country were in
general free speech is allowed, so the writing of political expression isn't
needed, the writing of TOX 01, 02, 03 ,04 is just criminal damage, these
scumbags ruin our environment, make people feel threatened especally
travelling at night, and need to be caught & punished.
ISII
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In message , Ishmael
Sayle III writes
A lot of the people comitting this crime, are in their 20s, you think
they'd
know better, a lot are in work some highly paid and in responsible
positions, apparantly they deface the world for the thrill.
I lothe graffiti, it make the world an ugly threatning place, it's not
art
thats for certain.
I could *possibly* agree with you about some graffiti but I don't think
Picasso would have agreed with you when he painted Guernica.
Art isn't *only* pictures suitable for chocolate boxes.
You're missing the point, Kat. It's not a question of whether it's nice
to
look at. The difference is that Picasso used his own canvas to paint on,
not someone else's property without their permission. It's the total
lack
of respect for our, yes *our*, property that people find threatening.
I don't think I missed the point at all... the previous poster was
implying that because it made the world a threatening place, it was not
art. It may well be art in spite of the effect it has on you, the
viewer, and in spite of the fact that it's not on the perpetrator's own
property.
Whether you and I enjoy it or not, Graffiti is a valid form of visual
expression.
http://www.graffiti.org/faq/graf.def.html
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Kat Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.