_Since when everyone is a graffiti artist?
Before I went to class today as I always do I look at current news that is going on back at home in BROOKLYN and unexpectedly there was an article about the Brooklyn Museum and Graffiti Art. With recent negative talk about Graffiti and it becoming a social aspect in this generation while back in the 70's and 80's it was hard to express your art through aerosol cans because it was not accepted as much and everything was illegal....the question is posed Well has Graffiti become a social aspect in this generation? Has this taken away from the art of graffiti because there are artist who are coming out of no where saying they love graffiti and been doing it for years?
As an outsider I have always naively wondered how graffiti got into the underground cement walls of the train? How someones art could have been in the weirdest places yet so eloquently expressed. These unanswered questions were answered by a well known artist in East New York, Brooklyn who expresses his love for graffiti in his own neighborhood rather then branching out to places such as lower manhattan and broadway which are famous for first time graf artist to show what they got. While reading the article I sent him the link and he blatantly expressed that "he respected old heads like tracy and lady pink and all of them." However he proceeded to say" i dont respect that shit at all cuz they dont respect us." The article talks about Graffiti and the aspects it has in the social aspect of this generation, detailing the artist whose art is in the exhibition.
The question I ask myself is Does this graffiti art represent the art of those underground artist who have been doing this for years?
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