I appreciate the more artistic mural style urban graffiti art but random tags covering subway trains and storefronts just gives off a shitty urban slum vibe.
Nothing show recently, such as the LA high rise, or the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, even come close to being “artistic”, unless one generously considers anything making a statement to be art, such as the artist smearing his feces on the wall.
Agreed. Maybe in your towns you have real graffiti art. I just have a mess. It is disgusting and then someone else has to go clean it. The ‘best’ graffiti we have here is some murals on a wall and they are objectively ugly and terrible, one misshapen pigeon in a police uniform, an ugly green woman throwing up, and something incomprehensible. The rest is all “tIMmY WuZ HeRe” crap. I would love it if graffiti went away forever it’s just vandalism.
Or you could just do it by hand:
Twice this week in my pre-dawn commutes, I’ve seen graffiti artists touching up their “art” that’d been damaged by recent rains. I don’t really appreciate their work, but that shows some dedication.
FINALLY!!
Now I can figure out who “rulez” and whose “turf” I’m on!
Really, I’m just sick of having to see a bunch of avant-garde political statements, live in fear of what appears to be a giant wasp or rooster, or injure myself walking into brick wall thinking it’s a real doorway or tunnel entrance like a Looney Toon character. whenever I walk down the street!
No idea specifically what you’ve seen, but I would be far more tolerant of graffiti if it was say expressing an opinion that is not tolerated by powerful elites. At that point it isn’t even art, it’s rising will.
Political graffiti is a form of protest, and protest is a vital part of any free society. Society and the government need to know what people are thinking - even if they don’t like what they learn.
Wow, someone actually figured out how to make tagging look worse!
Tagging is art, bad art. Pure egotism. Frosted_Glasses’ AP article about the Los Angeles high rise shows better tagging than average, but it’s still ugly, puerile, and egocentric. Fork those guys.
“Two men, ages 35 and 25, were arrested by patrol units, issued citations and released.” That doesn’t sound like a jackbooted crackdown. Nor does it sound particularly burdensome on the taxpayer.
Making things is hard. Constructing decent buildings is hard. Not slapping your name on someone else’s property is easy. I do it every day.
I understand that most graffiti in the US is not gang related. Cite: The cost of graffiti: How police can identify, prosecute taggers
I’m guessing that if I bought a couple of cans of spray paint and placed my “art” over some of these murals that clearly took a lot of time and effort, it would not be appreciated by the original artists very much. Funny, that.