Graffiti: An Anthropological Analysis
Graffiti is one of the oldest extant art forms: graffiti has been found on ancient monuments as well as on subways and billboards across the urban landscape of today (Alonso 1998: 3). The piece of graffiti I chose to use was a series of images inscribed on a No Parking sign. I found this piece of graffiti [URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/livenature/235459080/] on a common photo-sharing application known as 'Flickr' in which individuals share various photographs. This photograph came from a California-based photographer and was part of a photo-sharing ring of individuals who specialize in taking photographs of graffiti and street art. The impetus behind the group is to showcase graffiti as an interesting and legitimate art form.
Presentation of information
This particular piece of graffiti is instructive because it involves the desecration of a sign representing the law. The law specifically tells the viewer not to do something -- that there is 'No Parking' in the area. In defiance of this, the artist or artists use words and images of a personal nature to render this sign into a political, anarchist statement by showing the power of the individual to make a mockery of the generic-looking sign. The images on the sign are diffuse: jumping frogs (one of who has a dead 'x' for eyes); a sticker showing two men arm-in-arm, and the words 'Earth' as well as some unintelligible verbiage that may be in a foreign language.
Analysis
Graffiti is often termed the act of claiming the right of citizens to create art in public spaces. For a fee, advertisers can claim the right to advertise in public locations, thus defacing public property in a legal fashion for money. Everyone who takes the subway has seen commercial billboards, signs, and other images just as, if not more intrusive, than graffiti. Artists who lack financial capital to purchase space to transmit their art must do so 'illegally.' It is "illegal to paint murals in celebration of...
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