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In Sarah Giller's article, "Graffiti: Inscribing Transgression on the urban landscape", she asserts her views on the topic of graffiti. Giller believes that graffiti is an art of letters that beautifies the urban landscape, even though others argue graffiti is a society defacing crime that needs to be stopped immediately. Graffiti is an arrangement of illicit marks attempting to establish some sort of coherent composition. Such marks are made by an individual or individuals (not generally professional artists) upon a wall or other surface that is usually visually accessible to the public. There are three different styles of graffiti, tags, throw-ups, and, pieces. Tags are names quickly composed on practically any surface and hold the least amount of credibility. Throw-ups are names that can be quickly done in bubble letters overlapping each other and hold a higher amount of credibility than tags. Lastly, pieces, are the most elaborate and involved style of graffiti, combining words with figures over a great amount of space to create the most admired type of graffiti. Giller explains that the motive of the teens is to establish a name which sets them apart form other writers. The name of a writer is a se

Giller has both agreeable and disagreeable views on graffiti. I believe that her perception of graffiti is much too liberal, and that she gives credit to social deviance. I only partially agree with giller. I do agree that Giller gives many positive points of graffiti in her article. Such as, the fact that she views graffiti as an art of letters. I feel graffiti is an art, and like an art it needs to be done professionally on canvas. On the other hand, I do not agree with Giller on the grounds that graffiti beautifies the urban landscape. Graffiti written on the walls, signs, and fences of cities is blatant vandalism. Graffiti vandalism is destroying our cities, and decreasing property value; not to mention the graffiti clean up which takes thousands of dollars from the cities every year. When written on our city walls, graffiti becomes a form of vandalism that needs to be placed in museums where art belongs.

Giller is partially correct as she states, " Graffiti is an art of letters". Giller is wrong when she says all forms of graffiti are an art. I believe throw-ups and pieces can be considered quality art, however tags can not. Tags are low quality scribbles done in seconds that have no detail and take absolutely no time or effort to compl

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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