So something can only be considered art if it’s legal? 
Unpopular opinion: Graffiti is not art.
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WaveCapsByOscorp™
2021 Grammy Award Winner
Tagging does that, not graffiti in general. All tagging is graffiti but not all graffiti is tagging.
That’s not art either.
Anti-black paint
Close your eyes, folks.
Picture in your mind your ideal neighborhood.
Maybe it has tree-lined streets.
Maybe a bike lane.
Maybe a tram line taking you to the shopping district.
Maybe you’re in a rural area with a lake nearby.
Maybe there’s an L-train passing through your block.
Ideally, is there graffiti anywhere?
No. There isn’t.
Picture in your mind your ideal neighborhood.
Maybe it has tree-lined streets.
Maybe a bike lane.
Maybe a tram line taking you to the shopping district.
Maybe you’re in a rural area with a lake nearby.
Maybe there’s an L-train passing through your block.
Ideally, is there graffiti anywhere?
No. There isn’t.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Close your eyes, folks.
Picture in your mind your ideal neighborhood.
Maybe it has tree-lined streets.
Maybe a bike lane.
Maybe a tram line taking you to the shopping district.
Maybe you’re in a rural area with a lake nearby.
Maybe there’s an L-train passing through your block.
Ideally, is there graffiti anywhere?
No. There isn’t.
Cac.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Only if the wall art was done by black Americans.
I only specify bc I've noticed the same trend with any other ADOS- derived artforms, foodways, and linguistic practices. Other black people are allowed to have their own dialects, their own artforms, their own foodways, all universally understood as 'proper' manifestations of that culture.
With us, everything becomes "slave food," "plantation talk," and, yes, 'illegal wall- scratches.'
There is zero graffiti in your house.
Somehow you didn’t consider it real art to put on your walls.
Very..
There's a cac from the 80's mainstream cacs love and have him as the face of graffiti..cacs shyt was all stick figures and not very appealing yet cacs still managed to elevate him.
Also, OP..Give us the defintion of ''Art''
Complexion
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There is zero graffiti in your house.
Somehow you didn’t consider it real art to put on your walls.
Most people struggle to draw the curtains.
Best believe if they could whip up something that looked clean and crisp that relayed their vision peoples homes would be rocking the ink like many folks skin. Another consideration, if you took these young minds that risked life and limb to spraypaint their ideas for the world to see and actually gave them a place to develop their talents you'd see so much more innovation in so many fields and, surprise, no more graffiti.
Its the voice of the voiceless in that respect even though I'm speaking mainly of the real thing and not just simplistic tagging.
Apollo Kid
Veteran
I’m just gonna leave this here
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
There is zero graffiti in your house.
Somehow you didn’t consider it real art to put on your walls.
I'm in NYC.Why would I constrain such a beautiful, wild artform to the walls of my house when I see the best examples every time I leave my house?
Actually, though, we are considering re-doing some concrete in the yard and letting friends and fam tag it. So, aha, gotcha ass again.
Cac.
Art is how my fantasy football draft went this year.Very..
There's a cac from the 80's mainstream cacs love and have him as the face of graffiti..cacs shyt was all stick figures and not very appealing yet cacs still managed to elevate him.
Also, OP..Give us the defintion of ''Art''
You don’t even know.
