June 2012 - Ramallah Friends Schools

Graffiti Art
By Lula, Mattie and Stella
graffiti is a type of street art that is usually thought of as bad or unnecessary. We disagree. We
think that graffiti is a great art form that encourages artists to speak their words in the form of
street art.
Graffiti can be anything the artist wants: abstract, cuteness, words, signatures, etc. Graffiti can
be made from anything you want, but the most common material used is spray paint. You can also
use pen or pencil and paint to practice on a piece of
paper.
Even though graffiti is illegal in some places, it is
not illegal everywhere. Graffiti is legal in lots of areas,
like for example, in a lot of places in the mission district
in San Francisco.
There are graffiti tunnels where are encouraged to
do graffiti on the walls of the tunnels. Graffiti is almost
always on walls or sides of buildings, but sometimes it
is also on trains or trucks and cars.
Finally, we think that graffiti is a really cool and
amazing form of art and we think artists should be
able to express their feelings in most places.
We have been through Berkeley and Oakland
observing all the graffiti we see. Here are some
of photographs we took of graffiti art.
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