Sunday, March 29, 2015

Graffiti is ruining the world?

According to the Guardian, film director David Lynch reportedly claimed that "graffiti is ruining the world and making our planet ugly." The author of the article, Jonathan Jones is in support of this and says:

"Graffiti is a pretentious subcultural backbeat that is replicated everywhere in much the same style, the same chunky lettering and coded messages. It is boring and expresses a generalised contempt for community, kindness, and the weak. How can leftists like this stuff? After all it is so blatantly hypermasculine, aggressive and destructive of people’s desire for a decent environment. It is in fact proof that men are still in charge of the world. There is far more creativity and craft in, say, crochet but because that is traditionally seen as a “feminine” activity no one bends over backwards to praise it as art. But graffiti, associated as it is with alienated young men, is treated with absurd reverence by people who should know better."




source; Lush

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