Whats the best (meaning funniest, most beautiful, aptest, or anything else you want it to mean.) graffiti you ve seen. What emotions did it it provoke?

According to Santayana "The most abstract of arts serves the dumbest emotions". Is it true?

We have very own collection of graffiti in Moncton that you can view:

http://www.moncton.net/e/gallery.aspx?id=33

beast ones I've seen was on Highways to New York coming from New Jersey.

nay, the best graffiti ever is this one on the Berlin Wall....on the Western side of it. The Eastern side is clear...

I don't what the best is but I love the stuff. I wish I was tlented enough to parttake.

I would like to see every high school in Moncton and surrounding area take the panels of the old subway to express themselves. But alas they would probably end up vandelizing each others works.

Does anybody know what you call the writing on the wall at the zoo?              Giraffiti....... Sorry but I really had to stick my neck out on that one.

Are you not a fan of good Graffiti? I think it's a great expression but not when it vandalizes certain properties.

Graffiti is impotant in our culture. When I see Graffiti there is a delightful common denominator of vitality, surface texture, abstract figuration and connecting visual that again energize the senses. In other words I don't mind good graffiti.

Men's room stall in Oshawa, Ontario. 1973

From this can, where in I sit,
I write to you, this verbal ***.
Hoping that, you say, "Oh boy!"
And fill your pants with, heart felt joy!

The person that wrote this is an odist!
A veritable odist!

Back in my younger days I worked at a motel out by Magnetic Hill on the TCH. The boss told me to go clean the washrooms. I took the oppertunity to write on the inside of the women's bathroom stall "Boy, Was this guy ever good!" then placed my phone number. I didn't get any calls and soon found out my boss had no sense of humour.

some people just do not have a sense of humor!

macdoug wrote:

Men's room stall in Oshawa, Ontario. 1973 From this can, where in I sit, I write to you, this verbal ***. Hoping that, you say, "Oh boy!" And fill your pants with, heart felt joy! The person that wrote this is an odist! A veritable odist!

That's not graffiti, that's just verbal diarrhea...crap!

all or none. But you must know some of that stuff is just vandalism and is just unwanted. The best I have seen is in the large centers and they are real artist.

I agree with Redneck, except I think that most (instead of "some") of the grafitty is unwanted and just vandalism.

Grafitty in designated area's is fine, and you see good stuff there, but anywhere else is (in my opinion) just vandalism.

I don't know much about graffiti but I have a picture of some giraffiti.

Graffiti, by its own definition is a desicration to whatever it is applied to.
I would presume that the smell of spray paint is actually the premise for such antisocial behaiour.
I am an artist. I have spent a lot of time within walls of art and have delineated my own style. The beginnings of my love of drawing was the blank pages at the beginning and endings of books. When my Dad caught me drawing airplanes (he was RCAF) he brought me home a stack of blank paper. I have been drawing ever since.
Somehow, I would never think of walking to my neighbour's house or business or garbage can, or sidewalk and putting something artfull there that would require solvents to remove.
I do not hate my neighbourhood enough to fill it up with my art.
I want you to understand that some graffiti is "art". Undisputably it is art. The persons responsible have talent.
If I saw those few graffiti artists in a gallery or on a street corner displaying their embelishments on large over-sized pieces of paper or card stock, I would feel nothing but empowerment for their art.
However; when you disfigure another persons property with what you feel is art, or an expression of your place in society is a step backwards in the beauty of art.
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