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I don’t mind grafitti but I really wish they would do something besides writing their tags 90 times.
Edit: Grafitti is art. And it can therefore be critiqued as bad art.
yeah and classical painters really need to stop singing their paintings
Okay but that’s literally just different. There’s a difference between signing a piece of art and your signature being the only art you make over and over again
are you only referring to tags where the same design is repeated in multiple places? I can see what you’re driving at in that case but it’s the ‘art’ in them is more about getting them in impressive hard to reach places, and you may as well complain about reproductions and prints of paintings
or also pieces where the same text is rendered in different ways? there the art is in originality, colours etc of the font
and of course there’s plenty of pieces like
but some people outside of the scene tend to be ‘oh that doesn’t count as graffiti dear, that’s street art’ gentifiers
I don’t know what part of me saying that graffiti is art and as art and be criticised as bad art because I think its a waste when the sole subject of the art is a bunch of tags that has led you to believe that i don’t believe graffiti counts as art or that i believe things that aren’t tags don’t count as grafitti.
I think a bunch of tags being the sole art on a wall is a waste, and calling me a gentrifier isn’t gonna change my opinion on that. It’s a blank canvas and a bunch of people have done the art equivalent of commenting “first”.