Graffiti: Art of the 20th Century or Vandalism
When discussing the topic of graffiti, the main question most people have is whether graffiti is art or vandalism. Before we can answer this, there are many more questions that must be answered. What is art? What is graffiti? What is vandalism? Is there a point at which graffiti becomes vandalism, and if so, who decides where? Only after these questions have been answered, can anyone accurately decide whether it is art or vandalism! What is art? Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines it as: art (as painting, sculpture, or music) concerned primarily with the creation of beautiful objects. Within just these three broad categories of art, there are many more subcategories in each. Additionally, there are other categories of art, such as architectural, photographic, and digital art. The main problem with art is the broadness of its scope and the general belief that it is in the eyes of the beholder, which allows for a lot of discrepancy from one individual to another. Robert J. Belton best describes this in the following passage: Any brief definition of art would oversimplify the matter, but we can say that all the definitions offered over the centuries include some notion of human agency, whether through manual skills (
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