I am sure a lot of people realise that London is the Grafitti capital. There is some amazing graffiti in London and to be honest it is the only reason some areas of London look in anyway cheerful.
Just over ten years ago in 2008, the, I won't say infamous, the famous grafitti artist Banksy organised a huge event called the Cans festival and it was incredibly successful.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/…
But you know something, nothing has changed the establishment still treat graffiti as criminals as talentless vandals, or do they
www.theguardian.com/artanddesi… It seems that graffiti artists become much more the flavour of the week when the establishment find a way to buy and sell them.
Art has always been about selfexpression and because of that it has always attracted the seditcious elements. The establishment will always want to control and essentialy own them and one stamp of ownership is the ability to buy and sell it. We have seen Comics become less lowbrow and tattoos, the reason is not that the work has become more acomplished, the establishment has found a way to own, buy and sell these to forms. You now see people in the establishment buying and selling orignal tattoo artists flash, you see them buying and selling original panel drawings for comics and comic strips. Now they have found new and inventive ways of buying and selling graffiti. Will graffiti leave the world, of as they sweetly put it, of the low brow artist. The members of the elite and monied classes will always look for a way to own the outsider. Any different to slavery, it is still a way of owning an element of another person.
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