[RP TownTalk] TownTalk Digest, Vol 56, Issue 16

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Well, one can find graffiti across the stretches of human history and  
prehistory. There's no use in lamenting about it or thinking it's  going to go 
away anytime soon.  After all, if graffiti is art,  then the plain monotone 
color one paints over graffiti is art  too.  
 
Thanks, public works or whomever re-redecorated the park.  We  appreciate 
it.
 
Adrianne Lefkowitz
 
 
 
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar  2011 15:36:25 -0400
From: gerald at geraldking.com
To:  towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: [RP TownTalk] Graffiti  Gaffe
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Just a little note on the graffiti found in  the park.
Thanks to the intellectual cultural perverts of our time, this  juvenile
hate speech is to be considered as Art. You can find it in the  finest art
museums in the world, in text books, in history books, in movies  and on
TV. You find children being taught it in schools and even producing it  in
art classes. Because there are no standards of excellence other than  the
opinion of an art ignorant teacher, graffiti becomes a substitute  for
talent, skill, or esthetic observation. Because of the glorification  of
graffiti as sublime human accomplishment- Art, half assed juvenile  minds
can spew hatred as worthy self expression. I?m sure the creators of  this
Contemporary Art feel a sense of righteousness and superiority  because
their repulsive marks annoy average citizens of a quiet  peace-loving
community.
Our Police Chief Chambers writes:
(As the  weather gets warmer, the days get longer, and individuals look for
creative  ways to express themselves,?)
Please wake up. Graffiti is not a creative way  to express human feelings
unless you want to say defecating on a sidewalk  with a note protesting
city hall is creative. Graffiti is not Art; it is not  sublime human
accomplishment. At best it is calligraphy. Most of it is just  rubbish. It
does not belong in our Art Museums and its presence in these  citadels of
culture is indication of ignorance and fallacious disregard for  truth. It
should not be taught in our schools as Art especially if it is to  be used
as hate speech. There is no dignity in spewing ugly thoughts and  calling
it ?creative self expression.? It is what it is-babbling of bone  heads.
Gerald King

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