Thursday, 16 May 2013
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Monday, 6 May 2013
Arguments
Argument 1
Some have strong belief that art should be only allowed to draw on canvas. They believe that it is totally unacceptable to draw on someone else’s property without permission. In an article written by Arifa Kabar and Paul Vallely, one of the interviewees named Hardy states “the trouble is that it is has been sprayed all over other people's property without their consent and that is simply vandalism”. Truly, in my point of view, nine out of ten graffiti on public space look unpleasant and ugly, so a number of people called as “City decay”. They assume this is the main reason of ruining landscape and surroundings. I firmly believe that public transportations are not appropriate way to do graffiti as everyone uses them. Yet, the number of reported graffiti cases doesn’t seem to be reducing and it has been increasing sharply day by day.
On the other hand, what if Picasso draws on wall of building, I wonder
whether it is concerned as art or vandalism. To me, there is no certain way of
judging an art form; everyone has its own opinion on it. Moreover, it is an
inevitable fact that some artists have more talents than some of the world’s
greatest renowned artists such as Bansky and Ben Eineand. A CNN article
written by Jareen Iman, Swann outlined
"Street art to me is a person showing his talent; many artists go
undiscovered, they take chances when and where they do it". At Toronto, a building
owner defended the wall
which is covered with graffiti to remain while Graffiti Panel strongly
disagreed with his opinion. On top of this, some clean-up members of the
sorority changed their minds after seeing some small stenciled images
of Buddha and Jimi Hendrix on light posts. They don’t think they should have to
remove them because they are not offensive.
Argument 2
Every city in the word has spent a lot of money on clean-up. These fees
generally come from tax-payers and I certainly believe that they are not happy
with the way of spending their money on it. Ironically, there are no national
statistics kept about graffiti, but people can assume how much it normally
costs by reading this blog and need
lots of human resources in order to get rid of the graffiti.
There is no doubt that some graffiti are very eye-catching and amazing so they attract walkers from young to old. Such graffiti are drawn beyond people’s imaginations and they deliver creative thinking and express ideas to viewers within a short glance. In present, numerous people continuously visit Melbourne to see laneways covered with graffiti. Here is the list of street art in Melbourne recommended by BBC Travel. On top of this, an annual event called
"Graffiti Gone Global" held the first weekend of December in Miami, Florida. I was completely taken aback after seeing the displayed graffiti on the walls in this event and I realized that there are a lot of creative and genius graffiti artists exist than I expected.
Argument 3
I have no doubt that a large proportion of children have experienced
drawing graffiti on walls at their young age even though their parents are not
allowed them to do. According to Graffiti Control Program,
adolescents are very vulnerable to get involved in graffiti vandalism
for many reasons such as peer recognition, lack of artistic and recreational
alternatives, the element of danger and lack of appropriate parental
supervision and discipline. Therefore, once they are exposed to such
environments, there are more possibilities to get wrong concept of graffiti. As
a result, they ruining hundreds and thousands dollars on
properties.
Fortunately, graffiti can be used for encouraging youth in positive ways. For instance, some cities have been running programs which painting abandoned buildings with graffiti artists and minors in order to turn them into beautiful and attractive buildings. The purpose of providing it is not only for beautifying landscape but also gives proper education of art. For instance, The mural program at Access Gallery provides kids to generate creative energies and help develop the community further working with graffiti artists who have disabilities. McLeese (as cited in Rodgers, 2012) reported "The opportunity to learn about graffiti might entice the youth to join the program, but once they are there, they are exposed to a wide variety of different opportunities".
In conclusion, graffiti is one of the
biggest problems in a society and both sides of opinions are very reasonable.
However, instead of thinking graffiti as city decay, we have to change our
minds towards it and start to think about positive sides in order to make a
harmony between society and graffiti artists.
Now, what do you think when you hear the word "graffiti"?
Did you change your mind ?
References
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Banksy couldn’t beat this: The graffiti artists paining homes in Gambia.
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