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Is Graffiti Art?
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- Wed Jan 04 2006

... Is Graffiti Art? Graffiti has loomed between the borders of true art, mindless trash and a way of solely getting your name around, and more people seeing it. Is Graffiti the everyday scrawlings of misdirected teenagers or the well-laced masterpiece by a keen eye? For years the opinions have changed and shifted. Currently there is not a consensus about whether graffiti can yet be classed as art. Art to some people would be the great works of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bottachelli, Matisse, Van Gough, and Monet but in today's world anything can be classed as 'art'. Different forms and styles have arisen and most people have an opinion on what is art. A splatter of paint on canvas; art? Brush strokes on a page; art? A collage out of rubbish; art? Who decides what is art and what is not? How can someone say "that is not art" when the creator believes it














