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Lefty online magazine, issue 3: October 2015 to issue 9: April 2016

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REMARK<br />

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GRAFFITI<br />

STREET<br />

ART<br />

Alan Rutherford<br />

from ‘Irish Graffiti,<br />

murals in the north<br />

1986’<br />

Photograph: Alan Rutherford<br />

Belfast, 1987<br />

Seldom considered respectable or ‘art’, graffiti<br />

cannot be ignored. Immediate, rebelious,<br />

public, confrontational, honest, malicious,<br />

political, vulgar, informative, territorial and<br />

in your face broadcasting of opinions, ideas<br />

... and usually anonymous. This has been<br />

a constant expression for the talented and<br />

talentless since human stirrings, welcome or<br />

unwelcome depending on your viewpoint.<br />

Graffiti comes from the same loadstone as<br />

‘high art’, but because of its egalitarian and<br />

anti-establishment nature it subverts ‘high art’<br />

and ‘the artist’ modes of recognised celebrity<br />

and value by undermining and one-finguring<br />

‘high art’s elitist and posturing nepotism.<br />

Strong, bold images of emotion hammer<br />

home their message ... and can also be read<br />

as eductional and revolutionary. All street<br />

art/graffiti can be seen as territory marking,<br />

OCTOBER 2015<br />

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