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Graffiti Art Should Be Appreciated

Imagine that Michelangelo comes and paints a beautiful work of art on a motorway underneath a boring grey concrete bridge. Would you be annoyed with him for creating graffiti? Or would you appreciate it as a beautiful piece of art? Some people think that graffiti art is vandalism. It is not. Graffiti on its own is vandalism, and tagging, but graffiti art is an art form and should be appreciated as such. There is a difference between graffiti and graffiti art, and there is a reason why some people do not frame their work, but there should only be certain places they can do it.

The differences between graffiti and graffiti art are huge. Graffiti, or tagging, is writing one’s name, nickname or “tag” on a wall, bridge and other public buildings and facilities. This has no aesthetic appeal at all. Graffiti art, on the other hand, is different because they create complicated pictures, or “pieces”, which take a lot of effort and should be classified as art. There is a whole lot more work involved, and can sometimes require more than one person. These “pieces” can take more than one night too. “Taggers scribble and graffitists do art”.

The spray can has separated the tagger from graffiti artists. They were similar, but then writing the name became more complicated and intricate, and pictures developed. The pictures became beautiful pieces of art. However, people still put tagging and graffiti art in the same class. The reason that graffiti artists do not frame their work, or put it on canvas, is that they feel that their art will become more widely known on walls, billboards, bridges and trains throughout the city. Artists and graffiti artists are the same, the only difference is where they put their work.

As much as it can be argued, graffiti is against the law. There should be certain areas on which graffiti art is legal. Boring concreted areas have been brightened up and made attractions by the graffiti art that has been made on it, and this should be legalised. Certain billboards, some carriages on freight trains, should be open for graffiti artists to show what they can do for anyone to see. Alleyways should be covered in graffiti art as an urban art gallery, and even a service where people pay to have beautiful graffiti art on parts of their houses if they wish. If all this happened, then graffiti art would be appreciated much more for what it is.

However we look at it, if all this happens, there will still be the taggers that ruin it for the artists. That is why there are laws against any kind of graffiti, because the taggers will ruin the areas reserved for the artists. If there was some way to stop this, then graffiti art would be appreciated by all.