Graffiti Is Disrespectful

Graffiti has been around for more than half a decade and practiced worldwide. However there is debate between whether it is a form of art or vandalism. Graffiti artists’ debate that many do not understand the reason most graffiti artist take the risk of incarceration, fines, injuries, and in some cases death to paint a wall. A graffiti artist can have the simple desire to become recognized, or to create a piece that speaks to their audience as a form of self expression. Because graffiti is associated with gangs and acts of destruction to some many cannot see the history and importance graffiti can have on a worldwide scale. Due to the fact that graffiti is usually produced illegally, meaning it is

Although our school walls are victims of getting graffiti everywhere on them, the people at my school are wanting to stop it! Graffiti is illegal, why would kids want to ruin buildings? Our school has an awful problem with graffiti, they need to stop it.

If you were to go open a dictionary and look up the definition of art, you would see that it has art as “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination…” (“Art” 2017) and “Works produced by human creative skill and imagination.” (“Art” 2017). From these definitions, graffiti is art, yet in most cases, it’s considered vandalism because it is done without permission of the property. When graffiti is done in a designated place or with the permission of the property owner, then it can truly be considered art. But even if these circumstances are not met, if the graffiti goes beyond a simple tag, it is art.

Generally most people look and take graffiti as a form of destruction and wanting to cause violence, but in the artist’s mind they want to be creative and help the people around them by making art to cheer someone up or create a sense of creativity in others. They don’t do it to go to jail or because they want to pay a fine they do it because they are open minded and creative. For instance, “A lot of attention is given to the ‘broken window’ theory, which says that signs of disorder like petty vandalism, fare jumping … and yes, graffiti, open the window to larger crimes,” Verel told The Huffington Post. “But little is paid to the ways graffiti is harnessed for good in a form that’s both constructive and authentic”(Patrick Verel). They are taking this broken windows theory too far and only saying it can cause bigger crimes. Some graffiti artists are trying to uplift the neighborhoods and the people they live around with creative art. Also not all graffiti is bad enough to want artists to commit a crime. While making this art or graffiti I don’t think that these artist are trying to harm the buildings in any way, but they should ask for permission if they aren’t allowed to be painting on these buildings. This is to let the owner of the building know that they mean no harm to the environment or their workplace. For example, “Adam Cooper, cultural strategy officer for the mayor of London, thinks

In the 70s graffiti was just tags or small pictures but it quickly turned into and “art movement” (Eickmier). This means that the young and the old artist had finally found a way to express themselves and were spreading it around cities like wildfire. In other countries the amount of graffiti shock american tourists, it is seen as a good thing. “Instead of walls being used to separate people from each other, graffiti brings people together and keeps conversations going.” (Wark) Graffiti has value as art and it tells a story worth reading. (Wark) Most teens resort to graffiti as their last option, and most people see that as wrong, but it lets them express themselves in a really different

Graffiti can be found everywhere and anywhere. It is a way for people to express themselves and be creative in a public manner. It shows how passionate and talented they can be when it comes to drawing or tagging and have it displayed as a piece of art for everyone to see. Graffiti goes way back to the ancient times and is now very well known in the modern days which makes more and more people interested and fascinated by them. It can be used in different types of ways. Many artists can either spray paint, carve, paste, or stencil them on a surface. From how we see them today they are usually images of random cartoons, big bubbly letters, vintage black and whites or inspirational quotes. Virtually anything colorful or not and big that can be easily spotted. Graffiti is more superior to be known as art than vandalism because it is a self expressing act. People need to be open minded about the images they see and look at the message behind it or else they will immediately criticize and say it is vandalizing property.

Graffiti is a big problem in our generation. It’s everywhere, on streets, bathrooms, and most importantly schools. When I walk around my school I want it to look clean and well furnished, I don’t want to see the school riddled with big amounts of graffiti. In this essay I am going to explain ways to stop and get rid of graffiti.

In the U.S.A, cities such as Chicago and Phoenix spend millions upon millions of dollars on graffiti cleanup. Children are also negatively influenced by graffiti. For example, if kids see that nothing is being done to those who

You're walking down the street and looking around at all the unbelievable graffiti art all over the walls, then realize that people are getting fined and prosecuted for doing it. People of the DPM crew in London were creating amazing art on a lot of regular walls to make a walk down the street more enjoyable, but then they were put in jail for 11 years because of it, and they had to pay 1.3 million dollars for graffiti related damages (Cathcart-Keays). There should not be laws for graffiti, because it can represent a lot more than just a drawing, and it doesn’t affect anyone in a bad way.

Newsela states that each year the United States spends up to $1.3 billion cleaning graffiti! People wonder if Graffiti is a good or bad thing. Some might say that graffiti is a eye catcher and decorates the city. While others have a whole different opinion. Graffiti is known all around the world due to its destruction of property by people who vandalize public property. People spend countless hours creating buildings for people to enjoy. But when The buildings are vandalize, it destroys the beauty of things.Therefore, Urban Graffiti should not be allowed in the U.S. It destroys public property ,It takes up a lot of money, and it does not give good examples for younger children.Each Year $1.3 billion are used to clean graffiti. If the U.S didn't have to deal with all these

Although there are many buildings that have been vandalised by graffiti at our schools,it will not last forever. Graffiti is a form of art, but I think art should be on a canvas not the side of our school. Graffiti destroys the beauty of our schools. All them people that built the schools.

Even though there has been maximal building that has been vandalized, putting graffiti on school walls is going to far. The graffiti is illegal in abounding states. It does have a marvelous appearance, but if you are going to do it, do it somewhere else.

Graffiti is a way that people express themselves, but when it is at the school it should not be permitted. Cameras on school ground can prevent this from happening. If one student in the school gets caught, more and more students will hear and be terrified to go along with this vandalizing skeam. Students wouldn’t feel as secure as they would if there are cameras surrounding them while ravishing their

Graffiti has put a major impact on the way people look at their everyday life. It was not used so much here in the United States but was used overseas. Overseas, graffiti, or street art, was used or played as a sport, just like baseball is Americas sport. There are different laws that are put over there than what there are here. They can get away with some of the things that they paint or make over there. If we tried some of that type of work over here, we would get in trouble and possibly serve time for vandalizing someone else’s property. There are many biased outlooks on graffiti, but it should be considered art in all places because of all the time, effort, and design the artist put into their work.

Even though Graffiti has been used in numerous schools, now schools are trying to stop the Graffiti. These reasons are why schools should stop the Graffiti.