Graffiti

Bojorquez's piece on graffiti brought up some interesting arguments (all be it, made countless times before) about graffiti and it's relationship to the art world. It would be hard to deny that graffiti is an art form, it has visual appeal and displays a form of human creativity (so according to Webster's dictionary, yes it is art). But as with all art forms, context is everything. The Greal Wall of LA is tastefully created (with, of course, the obligatory political motives, that can easily be forgiven). The piece is rich in history, and the process of the piece's initiation is just as beautiful as the final product. When is graffiti art and when is it a nuisance? There's the obvious answer of gang tags being nuisance and commissioned murals being art, its the pieces in between that aren't so defined.