Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland?

Just the morons who use nasty cheap indelible materials to scrawl all over the built environment.


Agreed - and it takes skill too, unlike the grafitti vandals.

I of course meant chalk. :s

And which ones are they?

I don't know the particulars, but I'll ask him.

Moral of the story, prosecute to the full extent of the law if you own containers in order to keep them from getting, ahem, decorated.

There are a couple of commissioned projects here in Wroclaw. Will try to get some pictures.

You should turn in the criminal vandal. If you know of his crimes and don't report him, then this makes you a criminal too.

A legal graffiti in Warsaw:

In memory of Zdzislaw Beksinski, painter, murdered in this building. No little shits have defaced it for 3 years now.

Beksinski's art: google.com/images?q=beksinski+graffiti&um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=2

In an effort to combat the graffiti problem many US cities have instituted a public mural arts program for the sides of buildings. Seems like a good idea and it has had a degree of success in deterring the vandals. But like most good ideas, this one too has been hijacked and gotten carried away...

Now the mural programs have turned into a very expensive undertaking, consuming many million$ of tax dollars to produce and maintain. And in the urban areas, the minority folks see the program as a means to assert their blackness, so nearly all murals are black-themed. A foreign visitor viewing them would think entire cities here were black. You'd think that in a place like Philadelphia -where our country was created- that most of the murals would be related to this history. While there are some, most look more like something out of "Roots" or a black Rap video. :s All in an effort to combat the black graffiti... Nuts.

In Montreal on Sunday three men, age 17 to 19, were struck by a train and died while painting graffiti along the concrete wall. In today's press they are called "up-and-coming graffiti artists who wanted to express themselves". Ya, right. Tagging is no more an expression of free speech than smashing windows is art.

You got that right, sista.


It is a disservice to sanity for the Media to call graffiti vandals "artists". It is just another effort to manipulate perceptions and validate this crime as an "art" form... Kinda like how this was done for Rap, calling angry childish rhyming an "art" form or "music". Crap.

Hey, stupid mods, why did you shitcаn an on-topic remark? I've edited slightly so that even you can understand the connection.


Well I do think of rap as a kind of art, just an extremely limited one without much emotional or rhythmic range that long ago exhausted it's limited potential. It's kind of like if twist records were made for twenty years instead of two.....

Similarly, grafitti as an art form is inherently limited and can't say anything meaningful or make anyone reflect on any broader issues (this includes Banksy - there's no there there). It's like the hula hoop, a vague diversion with no power to make people think.

All this makes the adoption of both by urban Polish youth culture puzzling and tragically misguided. Yeah, I know they're into it because Poles are fashion chasers (not fashion makers) but ultimately it's a lot of effort spent digging a dry well.

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Somewhere in Poland.



Ditto. (Does anyone recognize the spots, or the style of this artist?) Hey, legal or not, I don't mind some real expression and thought-provoking images on all that dull concrete, if it's really done with love. (But it should never be done on private property, unless you have the explicit approval of the owner!)

:)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawa_Stary_Mokot%C3%B3w_graffiti_on_shop_window.jpg

Smurf:
Tag your car ;)

That'd be cool if you could, could you post the address to, I'd like to take some pics the next time I'm there


oh lord... relax your cracks, what are you a copper? not like anyone is dealing heroin here or tax dodging or feeling up kids


Art is subjective so it depends on the context of the broken window, was it in a gallery? Was it a drug dealer's Jeep? if so then both are art for me :-P


haha, like this in Krakow.

Have you checked the Legal-Walls site?

Team Alosta and Smug One are some of the best in the world, and it IS art; however, if permission isn't given, it's just vandalism. Most murals these days are done by people who have been given permission. Simply "tagging" your street name or gang is just stupid and these kids should be made to clean the streets for a yr.

Ex...Smug one

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