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<DIV>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
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<DIV>Thanks, public works or whomever re-redecorated the park. We
appreciate it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Adrianne Lefkowitz</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT face=Haettenschweiler>Message</FONT>: 3<BR>Date: Mon, 21 Mar
2011 15:36:25 -0400<BR>From: gerald@geraldking.com<BR>To:
towntalk@riverdale-park.org<BR>Subject: [RP TownTalk] Graffiti
Gaffe<BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<18235acef5cd2d2aaf2393584c04173e.squirrel@emailmg.ipower.com><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<BR><BR>Just a little note on the graffiti found in
the park.<BR>Thanks to the intellectual cultural perverts of our time, this
juvenile<BR>hate speech is to be considered as Art. You can find it in the
finest art<BR>museums in the world, in text books, in history books, in movies
and on<BR>TV. You find children being taught it in schools and even producing it
in<BR>art classes. Because there are no standards of excellence other than
the<BR>opinion of an art ignorant teacher, graffiti becomes a substitute
for<BR>talent, skill, or esthetic observation. Because of the glorification
of<BR>graffiti as sublime human accomplishment- Art, half assed juvenile
minds<BR>can spew hatred as worthy self expression. I?m sure the creators of
this<BR>Contemporary Art feel a sense of righteousness and superiority
because<BR>their repulsive marks annoy average citizens of a quiet
peace-loving<BR>community.<BR>Our Police Chief Chambers writes:<BR>(As the
weather gets warmer, the days get longer, and individuals look for<BR>creative
ways to express themselves,?)<BR>Please wake up. Graffiti is not a creative way
to express human feelings<BR>unless you want to say defecating on a sidewalk
with a note protesting<BR>city hall is creative. Graffiti is not Art; it is not
sublime human<BR>accomplishment. At best it is calligraphy. Most of it is just
rubbish. It<BR>does not belong in our Art Museums and its presence in these
citadels of<BR>culture is indication of ignorance and fallacious disregard for
truth. It<BR>should not be taught in our schools as Art especially if it is to
be used<BR>as hate speech. There is no dignity in spewing ugly thoughts and
calling<BR>it ?creative self expression.? It is what it is-babbling of bone
heads.<BR>Gerald King<BR><BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>