Friday, June 21, 2013

What is graffiti?

When most people hear the word "graffiti," they think of
spray-painted tags or sometimes other images that are placed on public or pirvate
property such as the sides of buildings, trucks or trains, or really any place visible
to the public.


Technically, however, graffiti is any kind
of mark or image placed on property, and strangely enough it is usually on other
people's property!  But it can take the form of spray paint, it can be scratched into a
surface such as initials on a tree-trunk, or any other kind of
marking.


There are also widely differing opinions on the
artistic (or not) nature of graffiti and whether it ought to be more accepted or more
heavily prosecuted.

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