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Any painting on any canvas may be construded as "art". To admit that graffiti is an act of expressing an attitude, emotion, anger, defiance, hatred, or simply 'tagging' is reality. To believe that it is the work of a 'talented' individual can be debated. One could use the same argument that a teenage computer hacker is an incredible computer whiz. . .Both the hacker and the graffiti 'artist', however, are not applying their skills and abilities within the context of what is considered socially acceptable or legal. Neither will they ever develop their 'talent' to be ligitimately recognized as long as they continue to commit illegal and intrusive acts on the public and private sector. It is entirely up to the individual viewer to judge whether or not graffiti is 'art', and for that matter, if it should be admired as 'art'. Did you ever consider that some graffiti is meant to stir up anger or to scream out to a more conservative society that the 'artist' can and will do anything they damn well please with little or no regard that they are defacing someone else's property, for they consider that property as only their canvas, and maybe not a malicious act of vandalism, which it is. . .Somehow I doubt that that the graffiti painter even remotely considers what will be the financial impact of their expression, or that they are pigging up our railroads, highways, and towns.simply because they don't care. It is an impossible pill for me to swallow that anyone could admire such a waste of potential talent and to admire their work as 'art'.
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