Why do you think graffiti is art?

Not when it is used purely for gang purposes, i.e. marking territories, and not when it is done on public property where I have to pay taxes to have it removed. When it is done in legal areas, or on canvas or in your own home, I completely consider it to be an art form.

Consider why someone would do graffiti. I think that's what makes it art. Someone who spraypaints a building has a reason behind it. Some drive, some feeling made that person decide to change that wall. I believe that since graffiti is an expression of someone's feelings- It is art.

Because Graffiti You Draw But Some You Write But When You Write Graffiti Its All Designed. Also, Graffiti Is Just Drawing Things And Writing It But Decorating The Writing.

This might help http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6116779/Is-graffiti-art-Public-to-decide.html Question is. Why graffiti is not art? im a big fan of graffiti work Banksy is one of the famous graffiti art workers, check out this website, his work is amazingly creative http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Hello, Graffiti art is an art form. The reasons, including aesthetic criteria, as to why it is an art form far outweigh the criticism of illegality, incoherence, and nonstandard presentation. The objective of this paper is to explain how graffiti art overcomes these concerns and thereby can be considered as an art form. Suppose that Leonardo, Monet, Picasso, or any of the recognized artisans of Western European culture were alive in the present day. Then, suppose that one of these famous artists decided to paint a masterpiece on the side of your house or on your front door or on a wall in your neighborhood. Would Picasso or Monet's markings be graffiti or art or vandalism or graffiti art? The answer may vary across people, but I would claim that those markings are art in the form of graffiti. Their markings would qualify as vandalism only if they appeared on private or public property without permission. The same answer holds for the present day, genre of graffiti known as graffiti art. Graffiti art originated in the late 1960's, and it has been developing ever since. However, it is not readily accepted as being art like those works that are found in a gallery or a museum. It is not strictly denied the status of genuine art because of a lack of form or other base aesthetic elements. Most of the opposition to graffiti art is due to its location and bold, unexpected, and unconventional presentation, but its presentation and often illegal location does not necessarily disqualify it as art. In this paper, I elucidate how some forms of graffiti can be accepted as art.... read the complete essay here: http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Graffiti-Art/122375

art is the expression of something and graffiti is the expression of that person, whether that graffiti by stylized names, which is associated to them somehow, or whether it's pictures or symbols which represent something or are just made for the fun of it. Either way it's an expression of some sort.