Street art is a very wide concept, it combines many elements, starting from street art, murals, tags (nicknames painted with a spray or marker) to in general, graffiti. It is often recognized as vandalism because of the daubs which are saying 'i love jola'. Rightly said but in 20% it is pure art. Main requirement for graffiti being art is to paint on buildings that are not someone's property, by that i mean not someone's fence or house so the owner of the thing does not have to cover the costs by his own. People that paint graffiti are called writers. It's because graffiti is all about sharing your nickname as much as you can, so you mainly write (paint) letters. Respectable writers don't paint on people properties or on new buildings. there is another side of this whole thing and it can be described as real art by everybody and it's about painting murals. Murals are painted with permission and people who did the piece get paid for their work. It's very hard and requires perfect sense of perspective so not all people can do that.
I’ve talked about street art in my previous blog. Now I want to say some words about graffiti. I have to say that it is illegal. It’s a bad thing in many countries (if not all of them) and getting cought at painting always forces you to cover the cost. Sometimes it puts you up in jail, mainly in America but still, it’s just a painting. Actually graffiti is not only making big letters and some background. It’s also about tagging. Tags are treated even more as vandalism than making big pieces. They are simply names or slogans written on (if possible) on everything you can. The whole idea of drawing on walls comes from tagging. When I say it comes from it I mean it. First sight of graffiti was when soldiers of world war two painted ‘Kilroy was here’. Then it transformed to commonly seen ‘I love Jane’ and not long after that Into requiring skill pieces of art. It all happened, in America, to be more specific – New York. Most respected and popular places to draw are suburban and lon...
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