Post Your Graffiti Photos

im not seeing much Graffiti as much as im seeing murals.

Graffitti i more 'tagging' and such. these are too artistic. in my opinion.


GREAT IMAGES dont get me wrong, but when i think of graffiti, THIS is what i think of

umgrizz wrote in post #19441498
Now that’s a real piece of art!
Nice capture.

Thanks

Jos

Ltdave wrote in post #19441575
im not seeing much Graffiti as much as im seeing murals.

Graffitti i more 'tagging' and such. these are too artistic. in my opinion.


GREAT IMAGES dont get me wrong, but when i think of graffiti, THIS is what i think of

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I understand what you mean. In the Netherlands murals and grafiti are called grafiti. Some times they are real art indeed. The murals become more and more art to forecome the tagging. There is a thread for murals i think. Now i know the difference.

Jos

josrood wrote in post #19441589
I understand what you mean. In the Netherlands murals and grafiti are called grafiti. Some times they are real art indeed. The murals become more and more art to forecome the tagging. There is a thread for murals i think. Now i know the difference.

Here in the UK, especially in the places that are known for 'graffiti', there's a distinction between true graffiti - tags, slogans, symbols, badly-drawn images - and street art - murals, photorealistic painting, portraits of imaginary people and scenes, fantasy figures and superheroes, political satire and cartoons, etc. There's a third genre I see here and there which is more street design, where the artist/craftsman is playing with juxtaposition of figures, shapes, colours, lines, in the way that any designer would.

And, of course, many pieces that I see incorporate elements of all three.

josrood wrote in post #19441589
I understand what you mean. In the Netherlands murals and grafiti are called grafiti. Some times they are real art indeed. The murals become more and more art to forecome the tagging. There is a thread for murals i think. Now i know the difference.

Jos

not my intention to say what is what, just explaining how i feel about it...

the artwork you photographed is spectacular work.

its like this in MY mind:

the scribbles, tagging, gang signs and the like are Punk Rock.
the art that you show is like The Ramones.

everyone THINKS theyre Punk Rock but they dont have anything in common with the genre except that theyre all musicians. or spray paint on the sides of buildings...

En route to the French Quarter, New Orleans

garryknight wrote in post #19441592
And, of course, many pieces that I see incorporate elements of all three.

I recently saw a Banksy shielded in plexi to intervene in that "incorporation" you speak of.

PineBomb wrote in post #19445328
I recently saw a Banksy shielded in plexi to intervene in that "incorporation" you speak of.

"Incorporation" as in "misappropriation".

Some street art from my Scrapbook collection:

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