Graffiti

Graffiti For eternity, people have been writing on walls. The Romans wrote on the buildings of the towns they conquered, and even before words were used, the cave men painted on walls. This writing was first called graffiti in Roman times and holds the same name now. But as the times have changed, so have the forms that this writing on the walls has taken. In the “Tunnel Notes of a New Yorker” Leonard Kriegel talks about how graffiti’s have polluted the cities/urban places. In the same time he likes some of the graffiti that respond on his thoughts, and he doesn’t like the ones that talk about politics. He is probably (or –to me he seems like) one of these old people who don’t like the new movements of art. I think graffiti is an art, because to make one good graffiti you have to have some skills, not every person can do graffiti. Everyone can come up to a wall, and scribble their names, write something, or draw some abstract lines that have no meaning. Leonard said, “… the evidence of the streets insists that graffiti is an urban statement whose ultimate end graffiti, new, artistic, form, artists, people, public, writing, first, about, started, said, gang, because, art, york, writers, walls, took, street, same, now, neighborhoods, names, modern, leonard, kids, just, hip-hop, grew, cities, changed, been, youth, young