Street Art In my opinion, street art is something that can be good or can be bad. There is a fine line between just writing your name on the wall of a building and actually taking the time to come up with a message that you want to be known. Graffiti is one of those things that appears more often in cities rather than small town like Millis, so we aren't really exposed to things like that as much. I personally like the idea of graffiti and the way it looks, it adds a lot of culture to the area that it's in. When someone is caught graffitiing, if it is in a public place that is owned by people and the graffiti isn't in anyway beneficial, I think that the person doing the graffitiing should be, in some way, penalized. If someone were to graffiti on the walls of my house, I don't know how I would react, I suppose it depends on what it was of. The main point of Exit Through the Gift Shop is to expose the idea that consumers buy into anything. I felt this vibe the entire time that they were trying to warm people up to the idea of street art or they were trying to make it more popular and trying to show the good side of it. When people think of street art, they think of that annoying graffiti that shows up all over the place and it doesn't look good. I don't think that now after watching the documentary. After watching that, I feel more exposed to another type of art that I really like.
The first image that I created in photoshop was an image of a stop sign that had the message “Never Stop Thinking”. I feel like this was an important message to convey especially in this day and age because people need to feel like they can think for themselves and it’s okay to not conform to society. The second image I created was a picture of one of my friends and I drew a crown on her head and my message was “Be Your Own Ruler”. I chose this because I feel like people just follow other people because they feel like they can’t lead themselves. In a way, my two pieces are connected because they both mention the fact that you should just do you and to not be afraid of what might come with that.
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