By: Maureen Coffey

Maureen Coffey — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:52:11 +0000

“The culture of history certainly includes art.” While I agree, I think we should add a meta layer here: whether art is embraced as a part of popular culture or not. If it were, then graffiti would be as cherished as murals elsewhere (if I am not mistaken, they are more of a Latino/Hispanic kind of art? Hawaii being a bit similar in that they also “bathe” in colors …). Now, one might argue, that graffiti are often not as “intricate” as those Latino or Hawaiian murals, to which one might reply: well. what do you think those murals would look like if the artists had been mortified of being caught by the police every second. I think they would also be reduced to a few “ugly” lines. So this attitude towards murals seems to tell us a lot about tolerance and ethnology and not just art …

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By: Maureen Coffey