Friday, April 25, 2008

Graffiti

On the building next to where I live, someone has sprayed "Art or crime?" on the wall.

In a city as graffiti strewn as Prague, this question is particularly poignant - can graffiti ever be considered art? I guess that depends on your concept of art, as well as your concept of graffiti - personally I find the mindless tagging of buildings with a signature to be as far from art as it is possible to get, however I am prepared to allow that there are talented artists out there creating street art with the very same tools as the mindless taggers.

So when done properly, graffiti can be art, but mostly it is a crime.

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