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wolverine876 | 1 year ago

It's usually on public property, or sometimes on corporate property. I don't think I've seen much graffiti on some private individual's property. It's not on the front of people's houses.

> Most graffiti is just trash

People say that about modern art, and about that crazy 'rock'n'roll'!

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close04|1 year ago

> It’s usually on public property

Which gets cleaned up with public money that could be used elsewhere, or stays there as an eyesore.

> It’s not on the front of people’s houses.

Sometimes the sides too.

> people say that about modern art, and about that crazy 'rock'n'roll'!

Did you just compare modern art and rock and roll to the few letter “tag” sprayed in 10 seconds again and again hundreds of time throughout a city? Because that’s what 99.99% of graffiti is, simple tags and doodles [0][1] anyone can make.

Charitably I’ll say you just didn’t pay attention to tagging’s aesthetic effect on a city. The less charitable alternative seeing the “tag = modern art + rock and roll” opinion is that you’re one of the “artist”.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fy...

[1] https://cooltourspain.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tag-gra...

wolverine876|1 year ago

Maybe I just have a different perspective than you; it's not a mistake to disagree with you - or vice versa. Unless we're interested in the world outside our perspecitve, how will we learn anything new?

> Did you just compare modern art and rock and roll to the few letter “tag” sprayed in 10 seconds again and again hundreds of time throughout a city?

Yes! That's what rock'n'roll is at its core, three chords (or fewer) and the truth, and that's how it was characterized - artless noise, etc.

  People try to put us d-down
  Just because we get around
  Things they do look awful c-c-cold
  I hope I die before I get old
Much modern art is constantly ridiculed - 'I could do that myself!'

> Because that’s what 99.99% of graffiti is, simple tags and doodles [0][1] anyone can make.

It's just noise, I tell you!

Now get off my lawn geezer! :p :)