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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    But isn't it the colour of those ordinary, banal, human comments that brings a place alive? Joe Bloggs did scribble on walls as far back as man can go. Why do we/they do it? Who knows.
    But isn't it poignant when a soldiers name is found etched on a wall at a battle ground? A lovers heart on a tree? The hearts on the wall at the embankment for loved ones lost?
    Why is it acceptable for Trajan or Rameses (I, II & III) to build a monument to the glory of their name - and for leaders al over the world to say 'I woz 'ere' in various statues and images (and that's history), but Joe Bloggs carving his name in the pyramids during the Napoleoonic wars is graffiti? Isn't it all 'I woz 'ere'?
    Didn't Leroy (well, Kilroy) become so famous that I was still doodling a wall and Chad on my (self covered) schoolbooks?
    You say graffiti, I say graffiti, let's call the whole thing off......

    https://historycollection.com/not-average-neighborhood-graffiti-12-mysterious-graffiti-works-history-mean/3/

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Some of you really do want to live in a grey world. Some of the graffiti around Sheffield is truly amazing and considerably improves sites of industrial decay.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    punkdoc said:
    Some of you really do want to live in a grey world. Some of the graffiti around Sheffield is truly amazing and considerably improves sites of industrial decay.

    All the 'artists' need to do is get permission from the property owner before doing their work.  Then there is no problem.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    How many of the property owners have complained or told him to remove the painting?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/banksy-wall-removal-shop-lowestoft-b1958689.html

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Banksy doesn’t receive any money from his public art/graffiti or whatever you like to call it. It’s a political statement. 
    Okay, point taken @Dovefromabove
    Under those circumstances, I'd definitely repaint over it.  I don't want my house making a political statement!! 😇
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    What about Banksy?


    I don't care what people I, but if he painted his graffiti on the side of my house, I'd paint over it, no matter how much someone might offer to pay for it.


    More fool you.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    For every piece of 'art' sprayed by graffiti artists there are thousands of tags.  Would supporters of graffiti be happy to have their property spray tagged?  if not, how do you define the point where vandalism becomes art?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited June 2023
    KT53 said:
    For every piece of 'art' sprayed by graffiti artists there are thousands of tags.  Would supporters of graffiti be happy to have their property spray tagged?  if not, how do you define the point where vandalism becomes art?
    when someone is prepared to pay handsomely to remove it and make good any damage?
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Vandalism becomes art if I like it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    Maybe … 

    If it’s done for free it’s not valued by most folk and regarded as graffiti/vandalism 

    but…

    If it’s commissioned by a committee and paid for out of public funds it’s a mural. 




    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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