Archive for July 10, 2009
Graffiti Now On The Walls Of The Corporate Boardroom
July 10, 2009, 10:07 pmGraffiti has encountered a mixed press over recent years. On the one hand, talented artists such as Banksy have made graffiti an artform that is pleasing on the eye, using stencils to create technically challenging artworks with a subtle meaning attached. This type of graffiti was bound to get trendy with both the masses and the artworld : pleasing to the eye, and the intellect. This kind of graffiti is now even acquired as graffiti printed onto canvas, and placed on the walls of middle class homes and office reception areas.
All the same, what of the common or garden variety – the gangbanger, the tagger, the street urchin – this is just seen as hooliganism, a crime perpetrated by the talentless. But is graffiti just art? To many people, it’s not only art, but a way to put your stamp on a district, or even two fingers up at society : anti-establishment, anti-social, even anti-art.
Graffiti has forever been a covert activity, even though the effects are very much public facing. The intended audience is often unknown. Is it for a rival crew? A communication to an individual? To the public at large? Or….possibly it’s just uncalled-for and out of boredom.
Whatever the reasons, there seems to be a enduring need to spray graffiti. Some towns have admitted that graffiti isn’t a fad, so they’ve marked off areas where graffiti is allowed – normally unoccupied areas, but now and again more civic areas like boarding surrounding urban buildings under construction.
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