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  1. I take issue with this critique supporting the idea that street art is "art". The beginning of this piece says it all. Some people think that the world is their domain - busstops, street signs, buildings. But these aren't the artist's domain. Busstops & street signs belong to the citizens and are funded by hardworking taxpayers. Buildings belong to the owners who pay for the property, taxes, and upkeep. When these "artists" use property that isn't theirs for their canvas, it's taxpayers and private owners who must pay the price. Street art isn't art at all. It's graffiti. Graffiti is vandalism. To glamourize it as art is an insult to anyone who has ever been forced to see their property or their tax dollars taken advantage of.
  2. "Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you. it's yours to take, rearrange and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head." - banksy
  3. I saw a couple of Banksy's pieces in Barcelona, a city which didn't seem to consider graffiti-removal a very serious priority. The bar for street art over there seemed a bit higher than it is here. Maybe when blank spaces are at such a premium, street artists sort of police their own concerning quality control, and delinquents without creative talent move onto other things. Possibly other destructive and antisocial things, but there was less boring art in the street.

    danhq's post seems to address messing with advertisements, while I think mygreendoor is concerned more with other kinds of public/private property. A giant billboard for body spray might be more like a "rock thrown at your head" than a stop sign is.
  4. only a Boomer would complain about street art.
  5. mygreendoor is actually Banksy. Its so obvious.
  6. A library card and a ticket to this film might even make a reasonable alternative to art school for any aspiring artists out there on extremely tight budgets. Just don't be too quick to assume that you totally get the movie.
  7. i loved this movie! i ended up buying some inexpensive banksy prints from it.
    i bought them here.


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