I am a fan of street art as long as it's tastefully done. Some see it as vandalism though. This one by Banksy.
I like the 3D stuff....so clever. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/absolutely-stunning-3d-street-art-paintings/
Yes I love the £D work as well...it;s just amazing how they do that... I like Banksy's work too.... that particular picture you posted has a sad ending to it... In 2010, Banksy came to San Francisco and plastered new work around the city, including a prominent wall in Chinatown that suddenly sported a doctor, a stethoscope, a heart, and a peace sign. Peaceful Hearts Doctor, as the work came to be known, was beloved by the building's owners, who covered it in plexiglass to ward off vandals. In the past year, though, saboteurs have dripped black paint over the doctor's face and body, somehow nestling the paint between the plexiglass and the wall. Peaceful Hearts Doctor is essentially destroyed, says a worker at Eastern Bakery, a longtime Chinatown establishment on the street level of the same building. Sitting behind the counter, the woman (who refused to give her name) says Banksy's creation has now brought "problems" to the corner of Grant Avenue and Commercial Street, including an increase in graffiti on neighboring walls. On the corner, elderly Chinese men still play the musical instrument called the ehru, hoping that passersby will give them tips. But few people stop anymore to take their photo in front of Peaceful Hearts Doctor, which is now unrecognizable as a genuine Banksy. The doctor looks like a monstrous blob from a cheap 1950s scare flick. The only thing to do, really, is walk a few blocks away, to 270 Columbus Ave., where another Banksy work — this one with an anti-war message ("If at first you don't succeed — call an airstrike") — sits atop the building, mostly untouched since it first appeared three years ago.
What a shame Holly. We have a great bit of art graffiti by us but somebody has gone and sprayed a stupid logo over it. Not sure of the mentality of some folk...
There's some real fun banksy work.... but the piece by Banksy of the Napalm Girl is the one that I find the most heartbreaking... Banksy's Napalm piece depicts a nine-year-old girl named Kim Phuc. Phuc was the subject of a photo in 1972, which showed the naked young girl running from her home after a Napalm blast. Banksy removed Phuc from Nick Ut's original photo and placed her hand-in-hand with two of the United States' most famous pop-culture characters. The piece presents a biting critique of the United States. Other critics saw the piece as a take on the treatment of Vietnamese civilians during war.
Some of the murals that are done, are fantastic. Of course they are real artists that are comisssioned to do the work. It is just one of the things that I appreciate when I see them. I think that many types of street art can be good, and some not so much so. I see it as a form of self expression, but some of it is looked at as unsightly, and it is removed often as well. I guess there has to be a middle ground with this type of art.
Is this the same thing as graffiti? Some of that is decidedly tasteful, to be sure. And, displays talent untapped for useful purposes. Talent wasted at best, while breaking the law. The "law", actually, given the thorough knowledge most of you have for "where I am coming from", matters very little, to me. What matters is that the "taggers" as they are called, deface and despoil private property, in the vast majority of cases. In other words, they are legally liable for destruction of private property, a crime not very far removed from stealing it. In some big urban areas, the inability of City Fathers to even make a "dent" in stopping tagging, new and more envisioned approaches have emerged. These suggest the "artistic talents" of taggers are not being made available to them through scholastic means: Many could be attending schools of higher learning, studying "Art". Let's, therefore, PAY them to attend such schooling! But, the worst yet, while we still resided in the Phoenix area, which is rife with the tagging "art", laws were passed making it mandatory that homeowners and businesses which had had paint and scribbling applied to their property, remove and/or paint over it, AT THEIR EXPENSE! See, it's like, I've been used, manhandled, screwed-over, by criminals, and the burden of REPARATION (cleaning it up) rests on ME! A sick Municipal Leadership solves it's problems by requiring it's honest, hard-working everyday constituents to repair assaults on it's infrastructure via criminal intent by PLACING BLAME upon the victims! Rant over. Frankl
The one I posted was by famous artist Banksy synonymous for his street art. I like you hate the mindless street drawing for the sake of it. Where I live often empty homes are covered in graffiti as a protest. Some tasteful, some not. You enjoy your rant Frank x