Graffiti

In the late 60's, early 70's, graffiti sub culture is appearance frequently in some main cities of The U.S. Then the graffiti sub culture began to filtrate throughout the world, due mainly to its association within the hip-hop culture. In the major cities of Australian, the graphitic artistes also doing their work round the cities. Is graffiti a real culture and can affluent in art categories or it only is a kind of vandalism and always effect people's life?

The definition of art is expression or making of something beautiful; subjective to taste and values that it will be debatable(Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Oxford University Press, p646, 2002). By no means, is graffiti is not a form of expression. In fact, it is one of the most expressionistic art form there is. It could directly express what the artist's thinking and desire. Graffiti is not art or literature in the conventional sense of the term, but it is an expression of people's inner feeling, and therefore ...