Oliwier Dawid

  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...

  Many things can be counted as street art - murals, stencil paintings, tags, graffiti. Every method has its own characteristics, but even though, they all share the same history and ideology. The culture of painting on walls goes way back. Some murals are even 40 000 years old! One of the most known prehistoric art is called „Lascaux’s Galloping Herds” and was discovered in France in 1940. When talking about murals, you may think about symobls painted on walls during World Wars. Street art often is a form of protesting - against the government, against racism or any form of intolerance. During wars it also is a form of showing solidarity and unity. Nowadays it is important to seperate graffiti and street art. People doing graffiti focus mostly on their groups and others that paint. They don’t care that much about the audience. Street art on the other hand is supposed to attract attention and make people wonder about its topic. https://rynekisztuka.pl/2015/03/25/street-art-poczate...