WHat do you think is tagging an form of art or is tagging violent to the community
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lupinahanani
ANSWERS: 15
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tagging, itself, is by all means an artform. But tagging can be performed (admittedly without the cred factor and the territories) without vandalizing private or public property. It's one of those things where sure, there's a difference between tagging and gang markings, but it's a hard line to draw. Volunteer anti-graffiti organizations are fantastic to combat graffiti, but it also has to be stopped by asking taggers to choose to stop doing it inappropriately.
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It's definitely an art. But it's also a sticky situation. I think we should have publicly funded brick walls where people can express themselves.
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It's art. Unless you tag my house. Then it's on!
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graffiti is art, just tagging is territorial and i guess natural in animals.
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Tagging is defacing private property, property the taggers neither care for or paid for. Absolute disrespect for private property and it's owners. It would be the same as me driving a 20 ton T/T trash truck full of trash and dumping it where I see fit and call it art. They should be a specific place for this and paid by the taggers.
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graffiti, yes. tagging, no.
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It's a little bit of both.
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Tagging is meaningless and ugly.Graffiti's a form of art.
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Graffiti and tagging destroy property and cost the landowner money. That isn't art.
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Tagging isn't art. It's pure vandalism, and one of the most fun things you can do. I carry a marker with me almost everywhere I go so I can hit up whenever I want. On the way to and from school I tag buses, poles, benches and signs. At school I hit the desks, books and totally trash the bathrooms. I even had a teacher who was so stupid he didn't notice when some of us wrote all over his room right in front of him. It's so much fun its addicting.
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Nah, not art. I'm not in it for the art, I just like to wreck shit.
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tagging is defacing property and it looks dreadful. It makes an area appear run down and shabby and it shows no respect for anybody else at all. It makes the area look like a dump. It's vandalism and I cannot stand to see it. Why these people cannot spray paint their own walls and cars is beyond me. They spray paint all over things that they have not paid for or do not own and think it's OK to do so because they like it.
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How would you feel if I scribbled my name all over your property? Tagging is vandalism, unless the perpetrator does it on their own property, in which case they are free to call it art. It's all very simple: they should buy their own brick wall / lift / bridge / telephone box. If they want community sympathy then they'd better make sure that their efforts are community-wide accepted as being better than what was already there.
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im on the fence. i like it, i think its art, i like to get up now n then. its a thrill, its fun, someone said its addicting, could be, but it's also vandalism, and it's bad because it's illegal, you may get caught, may go to jail, may get fined, etc. but all fun things have consequences dont they?
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It is disrespectful to the community. As a person who is familiar with art and as one who loves art, I can tell you that 99.9% of graffiti is not art, is not near art, it is just something out the mind of children or of people whose mental age is close to that of children.
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