Friday, July 25, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Rome tells a story of Graffiti
"Scribbling emotions on walls has been a tradition in Rome going back thousands of years and even the word "graffiti" was first used for markings found in the ruins of Pompeii. The modern version could be the scrawls seen in maternity wards in the Italian capital: "Get a move on, auntie's waiting!", "Chiara is born!", "Welcome little Mattia!".
From wealthy neighborhoods in the city's north to working class suburbs in the south, Romans are not shy about scrawling on walls -- often with phrases in local dialect. Anti-government satire, celebrations of football success and declarations of love -- poetic or crude -- can all be found alongside racist insults and fascist imagery."
Read the rest here
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
"Graffiti is the Most Important Art Form in the Last Half-Century"
By Bill Benzon of New Savanna
read article here
read article here
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpufv
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
...though
many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti –
by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and
Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and
young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls
without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did
time for it. Still do.
Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?
- See more at:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf
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