Gang Graffiti

[Arthur Dent]

On Banksy, one man does not approve:

‘Banksy’s ideas have the value of a joke’
The respect given to ‘street art’ is a measure of how puerile and idiotic contemporary art has become

Do you like adolescent entertainment? Do you have the mentality of a teenager? Do you find Cézanne a bit overrated? If the answer is yes, yes and yes, then I don’t know what to do with you. You are a childish philistine literalist. Get down to Bonhams (one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques) next Tuesday for their first-ever dedicated sale of “street art” – this is the experience for you.

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[heyzeus]

The Establishment never likes vanguard art. People like Picasso and Van Gogh were hated at the outset, and the blue bloods swore that what they did was not art and was unfit for any gallery. They reflected back on their times and their society with a vision that some people were afraid of, and they masked that fear with sureties like "this isn't art! it's garbage!"

You can be pretty sure that the lasting art of today critiques our present society is making a lot of people very mad today. I think Banksy is it. I think he'll be the one that people remember from today's crop of art.

[ghostrunner]

it can't be worse than accountant graffiti. Nothing worse than seeing a large scale double entry ledger under an overpass.

[Magneto2.0]

I love Grafffiti.

*runs*

I know it must suck having to get rid of it, but when done right, it's phenomenal. Now, I'm not talking about gang graffitti or anything like that, but regular grafitti with a tag name or a picture/scene/cartoon are usually excellent.

[Popeye_Card]

I love Grafffiti.

*runs*

I know it must suck having to get rid of it, but when done right, it's phenomenal. Now, I'm not talking about gang graffitti or anything like that, but regular grafitti with a tag name or a picture/scene/cartoon are usually excellent.

It's cool to see, but I don't like that it defaces public and private property. I like when places have walls set up specifically to do graffiti on.