Graffiti

A young boy. Always had ideas to draw big, show the world and become a famous artist. He always walked by an abandoned wall. So one day he decided to get his spray paint and draw his big ideas on that wall. A cop caught him and drove him home, then told his mother. He was on punishment for a month. He could’ve got in more trouble but he’s young. In New York City. Real people like this have big dreams just like this with big imaginations and ideas, and when they express their imaginations and ideas it’s always vandalism.

Graffiti is a way of art for people to share and express their ideas. It was invented around the late 1960’s when breakdancing was popular. There are several types of graffiti such as tagging, bombing, writing, and scrabbling or scrabbing are the basic kinds of graffiti that you see everywhere. Graffiti can be found mostly on trains, on the side of building walls,and even in art museums graffiti a very popular type and style of art. Graffiti is illegal because it is considered as a form of vandalism or criminal mischief.Vandalism: an action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. Graffiti is only illegal if on private property, government property, and landmarks and structures like bridges. People do graffiti because it can let people express their feelings and emotions into pictures it also provides people something interesting to look at. Some people think that graffiti is public art that benefits their community for a better viewing and understanding of their community. Other people think that graffiti is a disadvantage and vandalism to their community or wherever it exists.

Graffiti has positive and negative effects. One positive effect is it benefits the community into looking better and having a better insight of the community. According to Is New York's Latest Graffiti Crackdown Backfiring?, it states “It´s important for people to have a legal outlet for their art. Now, its either you paint illegally or you don´t paint paint at all.”For example, this one in place in New York City called 5 Pointz where people from all over the world all ages can’t get arrested for doing graffiti. It bought tourism in the area drawing national and international attention to the local street art scene. this would benefit the community because it would be less arrest for graffiti if they had more open outlets like 5 Pointz. One negative effect is it can take long periods to clean off walls or over paint. According to http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2010/10/08/graffiti-has-negative-impact. It states “Taxpayers dollars are spent removing graffiti from public buildings, monuments and park structures.” For example, Los Angeles County had to spend 28 million dollars in February 29th, 2012.