To an ordinary person graffiti is just vandalism and filth on
walls that makes the environment dirty. But what they do not know they are
misjudging the graffiti from tags. So when are they able to tell if graffiti is
art or not?
As this question goes through my head I’ve searched for some
answers but unluckily I’ve found nothing. I have thought of a new plan to
answer this question, It is by using the elements of art on commenting and
criticizing on a piece. Why am I using this kind of method? It is because we
are now accepting graffiti as art, so to easily differentiate graffiti art from
other nonsense vandalism we have to use how critics criticize a person’s
artwork.
In this article made by Marianne Vanderklok the "Elements
of Art" is composed of 6
different types of elements. These are the elements that makes an art work;
line, color, texture, space and mass, form and value. It is said that one artwork must
contain these elements to consider it as art, using these elements can help us
to determine if one graffiti is art or not.
First of all before we define every graffiti in every element, I
must make it clear first that tagging is not a form of graffiti art.
As you can see in this image they are just writings on walls and
don’t have any aesthetic value, that is what you call tagging. Tagging is one
of the things that destroys the image of graffiti art and makes the people
think that all graffiti is just vandals and not considered as art.
Unlike this kind of work which is called the piece, it has most of
the elements of art. This kind of work has Line, Color, Texture, Space, form
and value which makes it appealing to the eyes.
To the following Blogs I will determine if a graffiti is an art or
not, by using the standards of people to define critique art.
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