I believe I read I story about this grafitti artist that was commissioned to do his art on the side of a library, but the cops came by and arrested him and were gonna press charges until the library said they commissioned him and they dropped them.
That seems normal because they didn't know that.
BUT THEN, the cops called the city people and the city said they didn't want him doing grafitti work because of his history ( which was only getting arrested for the grafitti ) and then gave the library a list of the people they could use but those were only art majors who cost a lot more money and only did simple murals, not the nice work the first guy was doing.
Not all graffiti-style art is vandalism, people. It really grinds my gears when people use beautiful pieces like this (which would more than likely be commissioned, or at least done with permission, thinking logically) to act like they're some kind of special snowflake going against the sheep mindset or something. Again, I repeat: not all graffiti-style art is vandalism.
Both works are beautiful to me, for very specific reasons. A simple stroke may speak through centuries. The first artist may be exploring an ideology or a concept of mind that is only interpreted by them in this specific manner. Art is cherished through skill and meaning, but masterful skill always seems to trump prophetic meaning for the average viewer. Yet, in the end, all things become art after a certain level is past. For me, the intellectual beauty will always overrule the physical one. The second artist wishes to manifest beauty in an unlively public space, perhaps to play the passive anarchist or to express his ability to create, but can't obtain the proper recognition of art galleries, who knows? But art imitates life, and life imitates art. So I will live both no matter what. P.S. I love all of you!!
This is much more common than the post would have you believe.
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If the owner doesn't condone it, it's illegal.
End of story.
That seems normal because they didn't know that.
BUT THEN, the cops called the city people and the city said they didn't want him doing grafitti work because of his history ( which was only getting arrested for the grafitti ) and then gave the library a list of the people they could use but those were only art majors who cost a lot more money and only did simple murals, not the nice work the first guy was doing.