...GRAFFITI VANDALISM IN BARANGAY BUGO: A STUDY A research proposal Presented to Mr. Bonifacio R. Labadan Mindanao University of Science and Technology Cagayan de Oro City In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements Of Research 10 Submitted by: Sheen Ruby O.Salcedo Marcela R. Salas Anacel C. Senagonia March 2012 Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction Look around a certain community; do you see spray-painted gates? Walls covered with irritating drawings? Spray-painted walls? Damage posters due to unnecessary markings? Cars polished with markers? Or any obscene and violent language scrawled on brick walls? This is what you call graffiti vandalism; any unknown person damaging properties by writing, drawing, and painting, spraying or etching on it or otherwise marking on it without the full awareness of the owner (Local Government New Zealand, Beat Graffiti Guide 2006). Public buildings and facilities are the usual prey for graffiti vandals. Private properties however, are not...
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...As an art form, graffiti has always been seen as a more obscure, grimier medium, and it has been long argued whether it should be classified as art or not. In Craig Castleman’s piece “The Politics of Graffiti” he quotes a mayoral aide who assisted in the flagship anti-graffiti programs in New York having said: “The public is frightened and disgusted by graffiti and they want us to do something about it. We’re going to do whatever is necessary to wipe it out” (28). Even was graffiti was first popularized about four decades ago, there has always been a polarized view of graffiti. As Castleman touched upon, graffiti has a history of being seen as form of vandalism that makes cities appear dirtier and in turn deserves to be punished by law. For...
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...The Importance of Graffiti Should public art, such as graffiti, be protected rather than frowned upon by the community? Graffiti should be protected by the community as most “graffiti’ public arts are created in order for the artist to express themselves. Most artists use these creations in order to get their name out in the art world by expressing themselves and their culture in order for others to come to admire it. Graffiti can also be used to show the community of their city or the world problems. People tend to shun graffiti public arts as a form of vandalism and also blaming gang members for their pieces put up on city structure walls. As an amateur artist you have to start somewhere for your name to be known so many often start by working on building walls, busses, or metro trains where people can see them. Many will judge the artist to be a gang member and disregard the art piece as nothing more than vandalism. They will then remove the artist’s piece which as stated in an article by the Los Angeles Police...
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...Graffiti can be defined as writings or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed onto a wall or other surface. It commonly appears on the sides of buildings, both public and private. There has always been an ongoing debate about whether graffiti is art or just a form of vandalism. Often it is store owners and the owners of establishments who critiscize this form of expression because it is on their property that graffiti appears. Graffiti is most prominent in urban environments, in cities like New York and Los Angeles. People living in big cities often come into contact with graffiti whether it is on the train or simply walking down the street. Because of this most passer-by have grown used to its presence and barely even notice it. So why is it that some so strongly object against graffiti while otherwise recognize it as a cultural icon? One of the biggest distinctions to be made between art and graffiti is that art is sanctioned by the property owner whilst graffiti is done illegally. That is why two pieces that can be both classified as works of graffiti can illicit entirely different reactions. For instance, if the owner of a store allows a graffiti artist to spray paint a mural or even just a symbol on the side of his establishment, the end result would be considered a work of art. Scrap 1 is a photograph of a mural done by some local artists in the neighborhood commemorating their deceased friends. It is painted on the side of a hair salon and the owner...
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...Valentin 1 Dennys A. Valentin Mr. Brooks February 12, 2016 Is Graffiti an Art or a Crime? One believes that graffiti is more of an art than a crime. When one judges art as a crime then what creativity will we have in this world? This world has run on art ever since the beginning of time starting when cave men expressed their stories in the form of figures on stone walls. Graffiti is the same thing for our modern society, people draw on walls to tell their stories and their expression on topics, so why put a law on Graffiti? When it comes to the issue of graffiti prople tend to have questions. Is graffiti an art or a crime? Some would wonder why there are charges on your freedom of expression. America is not as free as they say, Americans have come across many roadblocks that threaten freedom of speech, religion, and the likes. We all have to pay to get what we feel inside of ourselves out. Like coming out of the closet, it such a hard struggle because we see the price. Putting a charge on graffiti is almost the same thing as selling art and the proceeding to destroy it.. Some would say that graffiti makes the streets look rather messy, or that it is destroying the property value. Others say there should be justice and to not put so much jail time in this form of freedom of expression. Valentin 2 It is considered to have started in New York City in the late 1960s and became a hit thanks to a young, and flourishing, generation during that time...
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...Word Count: 2,259 Graffiti's Helpfulness Throughout history art has always been present. Art has been used to preserve an era, retell stories, to show a culture so anyone could understand it, and graffiti and street art is the modernists way of showing their culture. Graffiti and street art has taken over the streets of cities and towns. In most locations graffiti and street art is considered purely vandalism. These artists are presented with into the shadows to show their pieces of works to society. Graffiti and street art has evolved from simply putting a made up name on the wall to drawing attention to societal issues. The streets are the ideal location for controversial art pieces because every commoner with see those art works. Graffiti and street art has opened a new door of possibilities allowing people to freely speak of controversial issues within their suburb, town, or large city. These art medians have enable artists for an urban age of liberation. In Elizabeth L. Rauh's essay “Thirty Years Later: Iranian Visual Culture from the 1979 Revolution to the 2009 Presidential Protests”, Rauh examines the posters, photographs, slogans, graffiti, and other visual and artistic activities to show how the Green Movement used street art and graffiti to visually illustrate issues about the government anonymously. Rauh says that the specific images that were used in these revolutions have appeared within Iranian history before. They were recognizable throughout the whole community...
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...personal aircraft of the President of the United States, and tagged a graffiti drawing on the jet. It gave me a big shock after watching the video because that man actually sneaked in to the US military airbase and tagged the Air force One aircraft. The event was being broadcast on some major TV channels. After making everything clear, I realized that video was not really took place at the US airbase and it was actually made up by a prominent fashion designer Marc Ecko. The whole process of the video was so real, but it came up as a campaign video to promote the art of graffiti. There are many different points of view on graffiti and it has always aroused arguments on its legalization. Graffiti can be recognized as a form of art, or crime. Graffiti consists of inscriptions, slogans and drawings scratched, scribbled or painted on a wall or other public or private surface. According to The Dictionary of Art, the word "graffiti" is derived from the Greek term "graphein" (to write) and the word "graffiti" itself is plural of the Italian word "graffito." Graffiti is also a form of self-expression. It is the means used to express the artist's identity, feelings, and ideas. The art of graffiti is also a kind of communication that links people regardless their cultural, lingual, or racial differences. When graffiti was first becoming popular, the tools being used were mostly wide tipped markers and spray cans. Graffiti can also be...
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...| When the Walls Talk: Graffiti and its effects on society | | | Fernando Gomez Cabral | ITT-Technical Institute Corona, CAMrs. DixonEN1320 Composition I | | Graffiti as an art form is a controversial subject in the art world. Is it vandalism, or is it art? Graffiti itself has come a long way from just being scrawls in a bathroom or random tags on a wall. It has been embraced worldwide by the hip hop culture as a legitimate form of artistic expression. An outlet with endless possibilities and absolutely no borders, constantly breaking barriers as it finds its way onto collector’s walls and into galleries as well as being the subject of museum exhibits. Although there are many people who say otherwise, it is so widely accepted that corporate media has utilized it as a successful way to push their products, cashing in off of the works of many prolific graffiti writers. Only making it that much harder to eradicate or buff out its beautiful images. Graffiti art originated in the late 1960’s, and it has been rapidly evolving ever since. Although it was not readily accepted as being art like that found in galleries or museums. Most of the opposition to graffiti art is due to its location and bold, unexpected and unconventional presentation, but its presentation and often illegal location does not necessarily disqualify it as art. On the contrary it draws attention and catches the eye. In most occasions, making a plain building or bad neighborhood look beautiful...
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...Could graffiti actually be good for cities?The Tate Modern museum in London, England is a museum that has amazing pieces of work. Those paintings were eye-catching, but the DPM crew tried to ruin the paintings on the street of the museum. Graffiti should be allowed in cities.This could cost the government money to erase the graffiti if they don’t find out who made the artwork.They can save more money if they just erase the mindless and stupid words people draw on buildings without permission. Graffiti isn’t just a source of vandalism because not all are just effortless or a signature. In the article “Is urban graffiti a force for good or evil,” it states that," Under this definition, anything from a small "tag" to a detailed mural could...
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...modern day graffiti may be traced back to the 60’s. This art movement started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where graffiti was used mostly by political activists and gangs which used graffiti to mark their territory. One of the first appearances of what can be call modern graffiti that appeared in Philadelphia can be credited to CORNBREAD and COOL EARL. The appearance of graffiti in Philadelphia was the first conscious effort at bombing where CORNBREAD and COOL EARL wrote their names all over the city gaining attention from the press and the community. The early 70’s saw the start of graffiti as a culture in Manhattan, New York City where artists such as TAKI 183, Julio 204, Frank 207, and Joe 136 popularized it. TAKI 183, was employed as a foot messenger and took advantage of riding the subway. The subway was the place where TAKI 183 practiced his “tagging” skills. Taki was the nickname Demetrius chose for himself and 183 was the name of the street he resided on. Taki 183 got this idea of tagging from Julio 204. Julio 204 was a Puerto Rican who was from a gang known as “Savage Skulls”. Taki 183 began tagging his name in his neighborhood as early as 1968. Juilo never got as much fame as his successor because he did not tag his name out of his...
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...When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. Graffiti has a negative stigma that typically relates to crime. To the artist, they are not committing any crime but to outsiders they are committing illegal acts. Keywords: Graffiti, Banksy, interpretation, crime, vandalism Open interpretation of Banky’s graffiti art When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. People may see graffiti written on walls, buildings, trains, buses, freeway and/or road signs, billboards, and any space an artist wants their work to be seen. With the many surfaces that graffiti will be written on, public or private, it is vandalism and illegal. Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place (Ferrell 2006, pg. 6). Common terms for graffiti are; tagging, pieces, and throw-ups. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been...
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...in Self-Taught Art.” Theory and Society 32.2 (April 2003): 153–80. Web. Gomez, Marisa A. “The Writing On Our Walls: Finding Solutions Through Distinguishing Graffiti Art From Graffiti Vandalism.” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 26 (Spring 1993): 633–707. Web. Grant, Barry. Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Print. Halsey, Mark and Alison Young. “’Our Desires Are Ungovernable’: Writing Graffiti in Urban Space.” Theoretical Criminology 10 (2006): 275–306. Web. Leidtka, Jean. “Strategy Making and the Search for Authenticity.” Journal of Business Ethics 80 (2008): 237–48. Web. Phillips, David. Exhibiting Authenticity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Print. Bourdon, David (1971), "Warhol as Filmmaker," Art News, 59 (3), 48-53. Bourdon, David (1989), Warhol, New York: Abradale Press. Shiner, Larry. “’Primitive Fakes,’ ‘Tourist Art,’ and the Ideology of Authenticity.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52.2 (Spring 1994): 225–34. Web. Banksy. Wall and Piece. London: Random House, 2006. Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall. London: Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2003. Cong, Huynh. The Terror of War: The Children on Route 1 Near Trang Bang. 1972. Photograph Lewisohn, Cedar. Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution. New York: Abrams, 2008. Schwenkel, Christina. “Exhibiting War, Reconcoling Pasts: Photographic Representation and Transnational Commemoration in...
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...The Change. ”Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssshhhh.”... ”Kling-kling, kling-kling, kling-kling, kling-kling.” It was the whole experience, he just couldn’t get enough of. He kept going on and on, and when all the painting came together it made a big beautiful motif. He didn’t even know it himself, he didn’t know what could cause him to don’t care about anything else, and just disappear into this dangerous hobby. Was it the tinkling sound when he shacked the can? Was it the smell? Was it the feeling in his body – the touch in his fingers, or was it to know that what you're doing was illegal? He didn’t know, he just kept on painting. I was walking home from school, Billy and his gang had made fun of me in front of Maria again. I could take it, but when it was in front of Maria… It was killing me. She didn’t know what to do, if she stopped him I would look like a loser, and if she did nothing it seemed like she agreed with him. Billy was the type everybody loved he was big and strong, and don’t get me wrong, a sweet little boy on the inside how probably just needed a hug, but on the outside he was a big fat loser. He was about a head higher than the rest of the class, and that gave him the rolling in the classroom. But the most annoying thing about him was that Maria thought he was sweet?! Well I don’t know so for sure, but why would she always hang out with him if she didn’t like him? There were so many questions I couldn’t get answers to, and it irritated me boundless. *Riiiiing*...
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...London, England it is seen as a crime to paint or write, of any kind, on the walls of the city, but this is only forced upon some aspiring graffiti artists. Graffiti should not be labeled as crime but as an expression of art because it is an artist’s personal story that they want displayed on the walls so everyone can enjoy them. Graffiti...
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...Have a bright, clever child who doesn’t seem that interested in becoming a lawyer or a Doctor? Are they good with their hands but not interested in plumbing? Are they a whizz on computers but disinterested in an IT career? Are they political, even secretively, yet hate all the major parties? Do you sense that they’re searching for something that can’t be found on EBAy? Does the creative soul in them get turned on by adventure? Well Congratulations because you may have given birth to what their generation will sorely need . . . A Graffiti Artist. In the 1990s Graffiti was still colour on walls to some, and criminal activity to others, but out of this disagreement an unknown artist, and he is still unknown, emerged. His street name, Bansky. One of his first famous quotes that he painted on a wall read: “We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.” — Banksy An Artist with a larrakin heart wrapped around a disgruntled, political soul he once climbed into the penguin enclosure at London Zoo and and painted “We’re bored of fish” in 7-foot-high letters. In August 2005, he painted an image of children digging a hole through the Israeli West Bank barrier. Then, in 2006, he placed up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton‘s debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. The Music tracks were given titles such as “Why Am I Famous?”...
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