Essays on Graffiti

Looking at the piece, the seal itself looks innocent, making itself seem like it does not know what’s it is doing to its body. The background works with bright colors such as green, orange, white and dark blue color. The green, orange and white colors...

“Prejudice is a burden that often confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”. Maya Angelou In the powerful and meaningful poem “I am graffiti”, the author, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is expressing the hardships that the Indigenous went through, including herself and...

What do you think of when you think of graffiti? Although, some might consider it one of the world’s beauties, I imagine many of you would picture the so-called ‘ugly, ridiculous’ title graffiti has received. When graffiti first started, it originally was used to write...

Graffiti is an art of drawing but is counted as illegal action. Hence what kind of art is it? Well, graffiti is a drawing or writing that is wrongly drawn on public or private property. In the past, there may not be much graffiti in...

The topic I chose for my argument paper, is “should graffiti be considered art or crime?”. I have always been intrigued with graffiti whether seeing it on the side of a moving train, on bridges, businesses or parks, it seems to be visible almost anywhere...

When I, and other people see street art it influences us to do our best and makes our creative minds explode with passion. Some graffiti street artists risk their lives to get the message out to the public, but in the end it’s completely worth...

When people think of graffiti, they would most likely discard it as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished, but does graffiti deserve a place in art establishments? What exactly is graffiti? Can it be considered a form of...

No matter if a person finds graffiti to be art or vandalism, there is no denying the fact that graffiti is everywhere these days. Graffiti dates back from the earliest Paleolithic cave paintings in France to more recent sculptures in Ancient Egypt. Some people see...

A multitude of questions have become enthralled within the graffiti movement, but the fundamental issue revolves around the uncertainty if graffiti truly is a crime. Modern graffiti, originating in the late 1960s, has continuously instigated disagreement not only amongst but between the public and the...

When I, and other people see street art it influences us to do our best and makes our creative minds explode with passion. Some graffiti street artists risk their lives to get the message out to the public, but in the end it’s completely worth...