Graffiti : art or vandalism ?

Hi everybody ! I'm posting this to make a discussion of what the action of graffiting represents : Art or Vandalism ? Well , some say that it's a crime against the society and other say that grafitti it's art. We should know the difference between the real grafitti and the vandalism.







The Grafitti artists are people who make an artistic expressions (the real graffiti) and express themselfs by graffiti. We have to recognize that they have been giving new color to ours cities , painting old walls and breaking the habbits and the monotony of contemporary cities. In the picture on the left you can see two guys doing a good graffiti in a old wall.




The Vandals are very different of the graffiti artists. Besides causing visual pollution , the vandals destroy the heritage public , an example of this ocurred when a crew used the sculpture of Nilton Santos in Engenhão (Botafogo's Stadium) to get up .



Seeing two sides of the history I can conclude that the only way to finish with crew and vandals , is investing in graffiti , so they who practice the vandalism will open their minds expressing his ideas in the right way.

I hope you enjoy ! ..