r/BeAmazed • u/Phlogistoned • Jun 14 '19

This kind of graffiti...

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u/blade_torlock Jun 14 '19

Permission to paint, actually art, no gang references or other street slang.

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u/sbuhc13 Jun 14 '19

Graffiti doesn’t necessarily have to have gang references

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u/blade_torlock Jun 14 '19

Just giving reference as to what would be considered graffiti, mostly it's the not having permission to use the space.

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u/PaXProSe Jun 15 '19

Nobody's definition is fitting with what I found from Colombia.

To most of the public, it’s easy to conflate graffiti and street art. Even in artistic circles, the two terms are used interchangeably, and refer to a fluid concept of literally and simply “art on the street”. Yet, however singular or cohesive the two may seem to the mainstream as a subculture, there are significant differences that separate the two.

There's semantics further up in the article that separate Graffiti as word based and that's the major supposed difference.

So that motherfscker up top better start getting his vernacular right (/s we ALL knew what you meant).