I browsed the internet to find some answers for my questions
and this is what I've seen, "Graffiti:
What it Means, What to Do" by Sheriff Ted Mink. In this article they
discussed what graffiti is and what to do if once you've seen one. They clearly
listed the things and procedure on how to remove graffiti in different kinds of
surface, and also they classified graffiti into three parts tagging, vandalism
and gang related. The classification of
graffiti they used is just like tagging which are just writings on walls. Their
minds is too closed to this new kind of art, they all have made a conclusion
that graffiti is just vandals and not to be considered as art.
There is another article that I have found, "Who
are the most likely offenders of graffiti" in the website called
“Goodbye Graffiti” by Western Australian Government. In this article is states
that caught graffiti writers had committed other serious crimes than just
vandalism. To make this clear that not all graffiti writers are criminals, most
of them are from the middle class which is not a gang member they are just in
for the art. Also in this article they have shown the statistic of the age
group of graffiti offenders, as you can see there that many young people are in
to graffiti.
To follow up to the topic there’s another article that I
have found, "Graffiti:
Vandalism posing as art?" From the website “Creationtips” by teen
topics. It is said in the article that using graffiti is a bad act and a big
offense to the law of the Lord. Again as I have said their thinking to graffiti
is so narrow that they have concluded that every graffiti is bad, what they
don’t know is that graffiti now is being accepted as a form of art and being
acknowledged by museums because they see graffiti specifically pieces as art.
There is another way that the government have determine what
to keep and not to in graffiti, “Banksy’s
graffiti is part of the nation’s heritage and deserves protection by law, claim
academics” by Daily Mail Reporter. It is said that they are keeping all of
banksy’s work because it has affected the history of Britain, but all of
graffiti works are being removed which is unfair to other writers because
Banksy’s work are just like theirs it is also illegal.
To sum up all of the four articles they all think graffiti
is just vandalism and it needs to be removed immediately. It is very unfair to
the rest of the writers who are giving their time effort and talent to this
kind art and people are just judging it by its negative sides.
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