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Has Graffiti Been Accepted By The Mainstream?The mainstream artworld has had a love/hate relationship with graffiti. On the plus side, talented artists such as Banksy have made graffiti an artform that is pleasing on the eye, using stencils to create challenging artworks loaded with a nuanced political point. This kind of graffiti was likely to become trendy with the masses and the art critics : visually pleasing and intellectually satisfying. This form of graffiti is even bought as graffiti canvas art, and placed in middleclass households and office reception areas.Even so, what of the common or garden variety - the tagger, the gangbanger variety - this kind of graffiti is frequently seen as hooliganism, an offence committed by the talentless. However misinterprets graffiti as strictly art. To a lot of individuals, it's not only an artform, but a method to mark a neighbourhood, or even two fingers up at society : anti-establishment, anti-social, even anti-art. Spraying has invariably been an underground activity, even though the results are very much public facing. The intended audience is frequently unidentified. Is it for a rival gang? A message to a single person? To the public at large? Possibly it's just gratuitous and out of nothing to do. Whatever the causes may be, there seems to be some kind of ceaseless need to spray graffiti. Some towns have conceded that graffiti isn't going to go away, so they've marked off areas where graffiti is permitted - usually unoccupied areas, but now and again more civic zones like boarding surrounding inner city buildings under construction.
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