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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Here's the problem. All it takes is one word on one new wall, and pretty soon, the whole city is covered in it, the whole city looks trashy, gangs claim their territtory, shootings happen, the residents get mad, the property values fall, the city must spend millions more on cleanup and cops, and it just turns into a really bad situation which takes decades to recover from.
This type of "art" should never be allowed or supported in a school environment.
Take a drive over by the Southern California regional location one day. You won't be calling it "art" anymore.
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"Cap'n I think we lost the Inspiration in this one!" LOL
You're a "glass half empty" kinda guy aren't you?
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Originally Posted by Jay H 237
The high school 237 is based out of used to have paintings that students did in art class on the walls. The paint was everything from what you could call modern art to graffiti to picture of the Statue of Liberty. Most of the walls of the school were painted when I went there as a student. After they repainted the complete school in the late 90's most of these paintings were painted over. The school today is basically a two tune green paint scheme, not as interesting as it had been.
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Some of the walls still are painted Jay. You should come to meetings more often LOL j/k..
Nah, there is one with a graffiti style teacher's face and other images outside his room's wall, another of a rain forest scene, and yet another of a (unfinished still) map of the United states with some landmarks over the map on the wall in the main cafe.
I would have to say (in my 5 years on the team based out of the HS) that I have never seen any of these murals disgraced, or violated in any way. I know that it may be the fact that it's on the inside, and hard to defile a huge mural in a public hallway in a school, but I see other things written over (signs for events for instance & bathroom walls) but the murals remain untouched.
People know that it took a long time to create these works of art, and they tend to respect that.
It's kind of nice really. It restores my faith of people in general when I see them as good looking as they were the day they were painted each time I am at the HS.
I wish the same good fortune to your artwork as well. It may be a bit on the edge as far as "publicly accepted" art forms, but I still would like to see it live on for quite some time.