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Art or vandalism? Graffiti is a word that always accompanied by a destructive, exceeded,

combative character ... see what makes the unlawfulness of graffiti. For this part we see graffiti as vandalism.

However, we also find an artistic nature, accompanied by a huge skill, ability, technical, pictorial, if we make good use of it.

With all this we can say that graffiti can be divided into two parts: legal Graffiti (art) and illegal graffiti (vandalism).

There are many different opinions. This sometimes leads to disputes or at least discussions about how to paint a writer, legally or illegally. What is clear is that each has its own way of seeing things and reasons that make you opt for one or the other.

Within the art of graffiti can be seen several styles: - Sketches (or sketches) - are those made prior to the mural on the wall, usually fast and with a color scheme. - Template - becomes a template of a figure in a carton and then takes that template for the city and painted over (leaving painted only what the paint) - Tags (or firms) - is based on making simple signatures on the street in order to become advertising street. - Stickers (Stickers) - are the paper over the cities of stickers by promoting them or their records or their CREW1 identified under one name. - Parts that are painted walls of several (very rare for one paint an entire wall). - "Palancazo" the act of painting an entire train in the garage.

The City of Laredo has initiated the program 'Colors', which aims to promote the "young people, murals and graffiti as a tool for living, away from vandalism."

Graffiti walls have flooded the streets of Alicante. It is not an isolated phenomenon in the province because there are hundreds of graffiti artists, most notably a group known as Actor. While neighborhood associations have reported damage to the facades, graffiti continue to be on the crest of the wave being the result of a collective motivated individual creation. The graffiti that came as a fashion from the hip-hop culture, has become "a resource of advertising though, on the one hand, encourages their development but on the other, shows an image that is essentially correct graffiti, "says Dib one, a member of the group of graffiti artists. The graffiti writer perceives the urban environment as a space in which to perpetuate their image. Your own neighborhood is where the first signs plasma to "make the street more attractive and show a show to the public, like a street theater"

"Graffiti is not art, are vandalism and freedom that makes the ends where it begins the person meets the front of your house painted," said the head of the Environment of the City, Ana Botella. His department has spent six million euros to clean graffiti, "not onlydisfigure the city but also generate an absurd cost paid by locals with their taxes."

The cost of graffiti clean equipment exceeds € 275,000 The cleaning of the city of Alicante has nine teams cleaner paintings o erase the graffiti, stains and gum from the facades of houses. This equipment uses water under pressure cold or hot, depending on the needs of each product to remove. They are also a layer off lux if necessary by the difficulty of cleaning certain areas. These teams are roaming the streets of the city and acting on direct orders of the City. The company only clean public buildings and the cost of equipment exceeds € 275,000.

The City provides a penalty of 90 € for those responsible for such acts. The City of Alicante, along with Urban Engineering and the CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research) have developed a pioneering project in Spain to clean painted landmarks, more susceptible to the use of traditional methods: cleaner paintings laser, currently the workers who will perform this service are receiving the driving course. Since the laser must be applied to the appropriate wavelength for each Super foot

This is an interview to a graffiti writter “Eeski”

This is a video we've done personally, to find different opinions on the English graffiti. The question made is:

Do you think that graffiti is art or vandalism?

And now ...

What is your opinion?

Created by:

Aída Albertos Vázquez

Ana Pavón Reyes

Pablo Godoy Rodríguez

Fernando Toral Núñez

David García Herrera