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In Marcia Brown’s article “Maine’s First Graffiti Artist,” Mike Rich was inspired by the beauty, creativity, and anonymity of graffiti. He has dedicated his life to this art form to allow people to see the beauty behind graffiti by using it for “positive messaging.” When Mike was 11, he was creating traditional art, but started painting graffiti to get away from the simplistic traditional art. Mike’s first most recognized mural was done with a team of 7 other artists that came together to paint…

Graffiti: How Shepard Fairey changed the world of Street Art It's 11 o'clock on Gratz Street, North Philadelphia. A hooded figure darts across the street, and runs up to an abandoned row-home, pulling out a can of spray paint. He nervously looks both ways, eyes scanning the street corners, before spraying the paint across the barren concrete wall. His message: one of defiance, against the status quo, against everything he believes has held him back in life. Standing back, he enjoys a brief…

In the essay “The Multifaceted Nature of Street Art” student author Theresa George utilizes approximately seven sources to describe her beliefs about graffiti. George associates first with author Lea Vergine, as George illustrates their shared beliefs about graffiti. George discusses the various terms used by society for graffiti, such as tagging, graffiti, writing, along with Vergine’s personal belief that is “the painting of desire or wild communication” (Silverman). George points to the…

Paintting and writing on walls is nothing new for this era. In prehistoric times , people in Africa and Europe painted pictures of animal, tings and people in caves . Graffiti has been found in plenty of ancient sites such as Greece,Italy , Toronto, and Iraq. In the Roman towns of Italy, archaeologists found plenty of graffiti written in Latin and other Languages, including romantic and harsh messgaes. In the 1960’s , young adults in New York City used untensils to write their Initals, or…

The Shanghai “graffiti wall” was demolished in 2015 due to the re-planning of the district. Prior to the official demolishment, the district was already considered barren and in need of renewal: the 80-year old block were filled with toppling houses, construction rubbish and abandoned furniture. Artists chose to paint on the abandoned buildings as the council showed not much care nor restrictions for this strict. Most artwork here was done in almost exquisite styles and were likely from the…

You’re walking down the streets of London, England graffiti, littering every wall you look upon, all of them are visibly made with passion, but, it is controversial to whether graffiti is acceptable or abominable. Every year graffiti artists are charged millions of dollars for their art-related damages, even with the permission of property owners to do their artistry. However, at the same time, there are a few artists that receive payment for the art they do without legal charges like it should…

The clip demonstrates that street art is an actual process, just as the steps took to complete fine art, and is more than just ¨hooligans¨ randomly painting on buildings with a spray can. For example, a general pattern shown throughout certain shots, cuts and sounds, is the method used to create street art, which involves more than one may think. To begin with, the entire clip is composed of jump cuts where the shots are abruptly cut. Each cut portrays a different scene tying into the general…

Mark Bradford is very humorous and funny, almost comedian-like. Bradford takes posters from the ghetto, décollage & collages them, then sands them down. Some examples of posters he picks say, "Immigration in papers in thirty days" and "Indian Hair Weave". He uses repetition. In one of his projects he uses "perm end papers" because he used to work in his mother's hair salon and uses "musical fragments". In another map-like project he made up stories using his imagination about who lived at an…

Is graffiti vandalism or art? Graffiti is a way of individuals expressing their own individuality in a form of art. The particular stance, I have chosen to analyze is graffiti, art. Graffiti establishes a stand point in artists to get themselves noticed within the art world, it is also a way of showing and expressing their own individual style that artists can procreate on walls, or throughout streets. Lastly, graffiti is a way to express and get artists and messages across to others in the art…

Can graffiti be considered art? No, graffiti cannot be considered art because it is a form of vandalism, can be seen as a threat, and the cleanup is expensive. Graffiti is a type of art that is shown in public areas by mostly teenagers as an expression. Graffiti can also be labeled as vandalism. Graffiti have kids and others scared to come around because they look at it as a threat. It’s a waste of time and money being invested into cleaning it up. Vandalizing properties with…