Thursday, November 20, 2008


this is art to me. i believe this is art because it is has alot to do with value, shape, color, and form. the value of this can be high due to the colors they use to make this. the colors i see in this are rare and hard to make together. the shapes of the people and the graffiti under it are spectacular. he shapes have to do with the graffiti writing where one of the guys are pointing too. the shape in that takes time to create and thats real art when time and effort is put into it.
this evokes much emotion because the shadows in the background are shadows of people. the emotion is concealed and dont want to be seen while one of them is showing the middle finger which gives much emotion of probably hate. also the way the eyes are shaped shows emotion of anger probably of police because that is one of the main things poeple of graffiti do not like because they take away from theyre work by arrest or buffing their work.(bufing: is painting over with primer).
this can make you think about why the characters may be mad or why the guy is using the midle finger. why they use so many mixed colors on the characters. why are there so many peole with gas masks on. that can be ovious because it can be used to conceal the face and to make sure they dont inhale the spray paint.
this is VERY unique ion my eyes. this shows so much and takes time and effort to make art as good as this. this makes you think and wonder why the artist uses light colors to put off a kind of angry message from how the characters look in their faces. people find this may not be art but they dont have the eyes for graffiti. they think graffiti is like tagging and those are different. this is basically art but just using letters and characters. there are so many things that can be described as art and this is most definitely one of them.

1 comment:

Saint Monday said...

Well put. Your reasons about why this qualifies as art say a lot about what you think art is! Talk about what you think Art should and should not be....