Graffiti Persuasive Essay

Graffiti has been highly talked about in our classes through the past classes throughout the semester. Throughout the semester I have learned a lot about how meaningful Graffiti can be and how the street artist expresses their feelings throughout their art. Also I have realized how much Graffiti gets a lot of controversy because there are many who love to see the art and there are many who are against any of the art called Graffiti and do not think its art. But many people do not truly know the meaning behind all of the Graffiti around the world. Which I feel if more people knew about what it means and who these artist are they would learn to appreciate it more. Graffiti is said to mean according to (Dictornary.com) “writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place”. There are also many amazing Graffiti artist like Lady Pink, Banksy, Doni White, Seak, and many others. Usually these artists spread their art around cities and in these art pieces they show many different emotions. Unfortunately most of these artists work gets destroyed within a few hours after they finish it. Most Graffiti is found on trains, abandon buildings, subways, signs, even roads. Even though Graffiti is a form of art for people to express

In 1995 mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York City set up the Anti-Graffiti Task Force. The Anti- Graffiti Task Force was an initiative to correct the problem of Graffiti Vandals in NYC. This was supposed to crackdown on crimes throughout the city in which this case it did for a while and also was one of the largest campaigns in History. (149st.com) Throughout New York’s history there how been many campaigns to try to stop Graffiti all over the city but no matter what they have done it still hasn’t stopped the artist still find ways to express their art even if it’s