Adding Life & Color

Looking through the "Detroit Graffiti" pictures, I guess my opinion on graffiti was different. When I thought of graffiti, I thought of people making statements, not just drawing faces or funky letters. This kind of graffiti is the type that I think gives graffiti a bad name! It makes graffiti a taboo, but when you see the colorful graffiti, the beautiful graffiti, I just don't think it's that bad!

These kinds of graffiti makes the world more colorful. I would love to walk down the street and see all this color, alive with thoughts and artists displaying themselves. I do see this as a form of art, but it's not an art most people condone to. Would graffiti be more acceptable if artists would ask permission before marking the walls? Would it still be art if people had to comform to societies rules and laws?

I think the reason this art is also so tempting (to the artists themselves) is because of how rebellious it is to do it! I don't think it's so bad though, I just wish people would take it as more of an art as opposed to being rebellious and marking a wall with spray cans!