Comments on: New Medium https://filter.anat.org.au/issue-67/new-medium/ Art, Science and Technology - and everything inbetween... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:48:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.24 By: SPARCS https://filter.anat.org.au/issue-67/new-medium/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:04:24 +0000 https://filter.anat.org.au/?p=970#comment-85 What vitriol is reserved for the street artist… lumped in as the scurge of all that is good and ordered in society. Responsible for the moral decay of good decent areas, destroyers of Utopia. People championing the "abuse" of others property ( I assume these nay-sayers also spend their weekend helping people weed their front yards and mend broken gates, and remove rubbish at their own expense…??? of course they do…?) is an inspiration. These people also see something we don't. The beauty of a stinking, dirty forgotten ally way, that has gone abused and forgotten until we found a use for it.

Sarcasm aside, (you may have missed it) I LOVE the balanced argument in Legal vs Moral. Street art may be illegal , but as you point out Charity, is it any less moral than advertising. Ads some times just occupy space that was otherwise unused, as does street art… though on MANY occasions it takes up vast spans of vista that were doing something else…billboards along train platforms where better views could be had.

There is no denying though that some take the forms of street art an apply them in a anti social way…perhaps those with untempered impulse control…much like some drivers…though driving is not banned or immoral

cheers WEK good article

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