Graffiti Vs Graffiti

Does graffiti and tagging only looks like vandalism or can it bring meaning?

Street art is mostly illegal and can be found in almost every urban city, whether you like it or not, you are going to have to acknowledge it. We will look at specific street art style called graffiti. Graffiti painting is a dialogue between the author and reader and it is driven by the need to express an opinion, though or experience. (Olton, Lovata, 2015, p.18) Graffiti allows the key benefit of anonymity, which protects the writer/painter from punishment behind the law. Fraser says “It’s about a chance to vent frustrations, to say things you wouldn’t dare speak up about...because sometimes you feel like letting the whole world know how you are feeling without giving

Both words graffiti and tag are often spoken of in similar context, but the form of the word is still different. Bill Sanders writes about tagging „Graffiti tags litter Lambeth. A tag is a nickname or street name of a young person, quickly written with pens, markers or cans of spray.” (Sanders, 2005, p. 94). As Sanders says all of the young people who tagged attributed to this: it was only a way to say ‘I was here’ or expressing their involvement in hip-hop culture. Tagging actually is a smaller form what comes from graffiti. Sandrine Pereira in heir’s book writes the definition of graffiti „Noun signifying a pictorial composition based on handwriting and sprayed on a wall or other surface.” (Pereira, 2005, p.9). Graffiti has a story or meaning behind. In the blog written in 2003 says that in several dictionaries, graffiti is identified as a message or drawing in public places, but conversely, a tag is basically a label. (Difference between graffiti and tagging, 2003) Both graffiti and tagging are illegal actions by law (Environment Law, no date) under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, written by Law and Your Environment article ‘Graffiti’. In the pictures, we can see examples of tag and graffiti. In first picture Fig.1, we can see world’s first modern graffiti writer and his tag on the wall. Fig.2 is an example of female graffiti artist Yvette Vexta painting in

We will find people who are afraid to say something at loud so it is easier for them to leave a mark for others to read or see. People who write in toilets are searching for a smaller audience than people who are writing on outside wall. “I don’t care about anyone. I don’t care about anything. I’ll do what I want if, I want when I want. If, I want to spray that wall or tag the glass, what’s it got to do with you?” (Macmillan, 2011, p.470) This is an aggressive and negative answer from a book called The Little Book of Life but this might be the small step to find the answer why people want to leave marks on walls. Is it because it is the only way to make people hear them and it is the fastest way to spread out the message? People come from different backgrounds and some people don’t want to explain anything to anyone. The person who is writing, drawing or spraying can say anything they like other people to know. It might be for fun or very serious tough behind which we are finding out in further research. A Little Book of Life mentions (Macmillan, 2011, p.470) maybe someone decides to paint graffiti on the nice building to make it look agiler! “Bonuso (1976) believes that graffiti satisfy a need to escape to a world of fantasy.” (Rodriguez, 2015, p.23) Mean time Rodriguez in book ‘Understanding Graffiti’ writes “Individuals or groups may use graffiti as a tool of