Well i see it as both dependant on where it is and what it is. I like it when its done well in the right setting.
Its the so called tagging i dont like.
Art - well, in many cases when you are talking about Banksy, Nunca and their ilk. Am loving the new urban art installations on the side of the Tate Modern. Ace!
Damn... must dash, hope this thread is still up and about tomorrow so I can add more.
Oh and yeah, scrawling random shite on stuff is not art. But there is defo a difference!
Nola x
Graffiti is not an art form and neither is it done by artists. It is no more than a criminal act. Sorry, but if they get caught spray painting, they should be prosecuted.
If they love the look of their art / signatures so much, they should have it tatooed on their face so they can enjoy it everytime they look in the mirror!!!
Looks 'okay' I guess but I doubt that the people who like it so much would want it on their own walls.
Can I be maybe hypocritical, and say I feel that it depends on the quality of the "art"?
I've just spent twenty minutes on Banksy's website, (thanks Anais, never heard of him before now) and his work is impressive!
Art, deffinately. Banksy's work is considered and usually makes a statement other than 'this is me scrawling my name on someone's wall'. Thanks to him others have followed suit. There is a dividing line between tagging and 'urban art', but if that's the only way some people have got to express themselves, carry on. And before anyone asks, no I wouldn't mind some decent graffiti on my walls, if it was just people writing swear words though, I wouldn't be too happy.
H.x
The location and the quality are all-important and overall I'm fairly ambivalent. The railways, particularly around london, seem to collect a large amount. There is a big difference between turning an otherwise dull slab of grey concrete into something colourful (probably a good thing), and actually spraying a train ( definitely bad).
There is also the safety aspect of having our teenagers playing hopscotch across the live rails to get to the location -- I know a number of kids have been killed or seriously injured.
A berlin kids playground
Tagging is pointless and needless vandalism, but when you talk about Banksy, that is art.
His work is controversial and provocative. One of my favourite’s of his pieces is when he painted a huge picture of paradise on the walls of the West Bank and another is of a rioter throwing a bunch of flowers.
I was lucky enough to see his exhibition under Waterloo Station back in May which was a half mile tunnel at Leake Street with sculptures as well (the wall art is supposed to be there for another six months)
So no to graffiti and yes to urban art!
Dogs pissing on lamp-posts
lp
Banksy and artists alike i class as art all the rest i class at graffiti
"Tagging" wherever it's done is not art. Art, wherever it's done is art. However, if it's on private property & constituting an act of vandalism, then it's vandalism. Artistic vandalism maybe, but vandalism nonetheless.
The word art to me goes hand in hand with talent. Not making a bed does not make someone an artist ffs. But I'm going off on a tangent....hijack over!
art i like if done properly, but this tagging shit annoys me, if i knew i would not get arrested if i ever caught a kid tagging anything i would get his can and tag him and see how he likes.
I'm amazed only four people on here made the difference between 'Tagging' and 'Graffiti'
'Tagging' in my opinion is vandalism as it's messy and just rubbish
'Graffiti' is art and art at it's highest caliber, most 'Graffiti artist' get permision to paint on wall ect it can take hour to great some of the work that is out there and some of these guys get paid good money for what they do
Cheers Garfield1 :thumbup:
At its purist form it is an "art"
However when 15 year old kids have just spray painted
"MAN U RULEZ" on my garage door then I fail to see the artistic merits.
Hooligans
