I quite like this method of discouraging graffiti on these metal box thingies... are they something to do with a telephone exchange? This is in Tampere, Finland.
It's not guaranteed to work completely, though...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
There are some daubs that I assume to have been paid for by the council, near me. They are truly appalling and if I could see them from my window, I'd brick it up. I would certainly contribute to the cost of a can of whitewash of even magnolia to obliterate them.
There is a small area of pedestrian streets in les Sables d'Olonne wher an artist has done "graffiti" with all manner of locally caught and eaten sea shells. Here are a few examples:
They're good fun, attract loads of tourists and she always has the house-owners' permission and, usually, active requests.
There is an agricultural cooperative that has huge silos for grain and other goodies on the port, oposite a whole street of restaurants with terraces and street seating across the fishing harbour, and it gets painted with a mural:-
The shell mosaics s are permanent but the painted silos art changes every few years.
I enjoy both forms for different reasons but wouldn't want either artist turning up and decorating my house walls without permission. That's vandalism!
However, it's a different story on derelict or abandoned buildings and I find I do enjoy quite a lot of the murals painted on residential and communal walls round here, especially the ones involving trompe l'oeuil.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Arguing about artisic expression while billionaires exploit art for tax dodging and we're all too afraid to pick our individualism from the wrong catalogue.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
...art is subjective - and we al have our own 'taste'. Taste is not in the object, but in the viewer. Good taste and bad taste do not exist. There is just the individuals taste.
...art is subjective - and we al have our own 'taste'. Taste is not in the object, but in the viewer. Good taste and bad taste do not exist. There is just the individuals taste.
There is no agreed definition of what constitutes Art, so you cannot say that they are not Art without stating which definition of Art you refer to. As for value, how do you determine it, other than by seeing how much people will pay for it? If people are willing to pay millions then surely it is worth millions?
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It's not guaranteed to work completely, though...
They're good fun, attract loads of tourists and she always has the house-owners' permission and, usually, active requests.
There is an agricultural cooperative that has huge silos for grain and other goodies on the port, oposite a whole street of restaurants with terraces and street seating across the fishing harbour, and it gets painted with a mural:-
The shell mosaics s are permanent but the painted silos art changes every few years.
I enjoy both forms for different reasons but wouldn't want either artist turning up and decorating my house walls without permission. That's vandalism!
However, it's a different story on derelict or abandoned buildings and I find I do enjoy quite a lot of the murals painted on residential and communal walls round here, especially the ones involving trompe l'oeuil.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
https://www.vinciresponse.co.uk/blog/why-is-graffiti-bad-for-business/
As for value, how do you determine it, other than by seeing how much people will pay for it? If people are willing to pay millions then surely it is worth millions?