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Posted: Feb 18, 2008 in Culture
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Friends,
My collaborative buddy Jon in Montana added a new post to our blog www.artswivel.blogspot.com about graffiti artists and a new documentary he has seen about a few selected graffiti artists.
Working in Broad Ripple and living in Indianapolis I see tags all the time. There are also some commissioned graffiti murals nearby. What is interesting to me working at the Indianapolis Art Center is how the taggers leave our outdoor sculptures alone. Is this out of respect, fear?
Anyways, I elaborate on this in the comment section under Jon's newest blog entry "Art and Film". We are trying to encourage discussion so any of your comments would be most welcome on our blog.
best,
Patrick
Judging by the talentless tags I've seen (CUE, MUL, etc.), the taggers have so little knowledge of art that they've probably never even HEARD of the Indianapolis Art Center. It's one thing to do a nice tag or mural and then sign it. It's completely another (lame) thing to go around spray painting initials in a 3rd grade scrawl on everything.
im sorry to say that not only have most taggers and graph artists heard of the iac, they have gone on to study at Herron, IU bloomington, and numerous other institutions of higher learning. to do what? become better artists.
look deeper into a tag and you will find an identity of an artist you will never see. you will find the name of a crew that knows solidarity and the power or vandalism.
can you tell the difference between a crappy barn painting and a good one? well, if you cant, then i wouldnt worry about the differing tags.