Picture/Text/When I saw the graffiti wall in Galilee for the first time in Beijing, I was attracted. I was surprised, stopped, took pictures, thought, and was touched...I will see that wall again in the future. You can't help but stop to admire and take photos of the unique and creative paintings. Graffiti is a reflection of Beijing's diverse culture. But is the graffiti wall just as simple as graffiti? I just had a concept of "graffiti wall" before, but after getting to know it more deeply, I didn't expect it to have such origins and rich meanings. The following is the graffiti wall of Communication University of China. All works were created by students from the School of Advertising of the school. I re-integrated the collected information, and the content came from Guangzhou Daily, Shenyang Evening News, Yinchuan Evening News and related graffiti websites. It also incorporates its own understanding. 1. The history of graffiti: Graffitist, a non-mainstream artistic behavior, is a graffiti art that combines "HipHop" culture and was formed in New York in the early 1970s. The graffitiers were originally primarily black and Latino residents. Entering the 21st century, the scope of graffiti artists has expanded. A graffiti artist in Philadelphia is a well-paid white stockbroker. He even painted on his BMW. The form of graffiti has evolved from simple deformed characters to complex paintings with many patterns, colors, characters, objects and other elements. Instead of painting and scribbling everywhere, some graffiti artists choose to paint on a building or wall where they have permission. Some big cities will retain many legal graffiti venues, and some cities are more tolerant of graffiti. Although graffiti is considered an illegal activity in the United States, there are still some legal walls where graffitiists can spray paint without fear of arrest. In Australia, it is closer to a sports-like activity, and some famous companies and groups will even come forward to sponsor graffiti competitions. Like street dancing, climbing, and BMX sports, graffiti is also a non-mainstream artistic behavior. In foreign countries, sometimes graffiti, like a pen name, can reflect the author's accomplishments. Sometimes graffiti includes the year of creation, the author's name and its abbreviation, or reflects some of the author's experiences or memories. People living in New York, if they take the No. 7 subway, they will always see a strange landscape on the west side of the 45th platform before entering the tunnel in Manhattan, a large and old factory building and its surrounding buildings. and walls, covered in colorful "quirky" patterns. This is the graffiti art that is one of New York's biggest eccentricities and one of the important symbols of New York and even Western urban culture. Some artists will even prevent some people from graffiti with low artistic content. Although no one pays them a penny and they often have to avoid police interrogation, graffiti art is still unstoppable and with colorful faces. Decorating every corner of the city. Graffiti on the Berlin Wall is one of the most representative forms of modern art in the world. It is graffitied on a section of wall more than 20 kilometers long on the border between East and West Berlin, forming a beautiful landscape of popular art. After the dream of reunification came true in 1989, the Berlin Wall came down overnight and the world's largest graffiti "museum" disappeared. But as an art form, it is eternal, and its historical, social significance, innovation and aesthetic value cannot be underestimated. Now, graffiti is gradually becoming commercialized. It appears frequently in clothing, magazines and books. There are also as many as 25,000 related websites on the Internet, all over the world. Some graffiti artists even have the opportunity to sell their graffiti works for tens of thousands of dollars. 2. The significance of graffiti: personalized creativity, lyricism, catharsis and an art form that decorates urban scenery. In our country, except for Beijing, many cities have special graffiti walls. It is said that the level of graffiti in Guangdong is relatively high, and this seemingly simple or even illogical artistic creation actually represents a city’s information, art, and even the development of urban economy and fashion elements to a certain extent. level. Hu Yeqiu, a scholar at the Shenzhen Cultural Research Center, believes that Shenzhen is a city of immigrants, and it is normal for graffiti art to appear in Shenzhen. This is consistent with the city's inclusiveness and internationalization. Graffiti that rises to the level of art is a part of the city's scenery. Interestingly, when building subway exits in Shanghai, several of them were temporary walls. In the past, the black advertisements on them were often removed during the day and reappeared at night. After several tug-of-wars, the surrounding cultural units actually thought of letting graffiti art deal with them. They introduced the art form of street graffiti clubs to improve the surrounding environment and beautify the city.
In the future, if they find spray-painted black advertisements on the wall, they only need to use other colors and designs to cover them, without having to shovel and paint again. It seems that other construction site exterior walls that are suffering from urban "psoriasis" might as well learn from this clever trick. Graffiti is personalized creativity and lyricism. Perhaps, in this small graffiti work, some buried artistic sprouts are quietly growing here. For teenagers who need to release psychological pressure to a certain extent, "graffiti wall" is a good form. This can be proven by the fact that the "graffiti wall" is painted twice a year. In some foreign cities, such "graffiti walls" are specially set up to allow people to "spray" freely. It is in this unrestrained "spreading" process that the psychological pressure of social members is happily released and vented. 3. Controversy over Graffiti Walls Some people believe that graffiti paintings also contain unhealthy or even anti-social elements, and their negative impact on young children cannot be ignored. And those who paint graffiti indiscriminately are environmental destroyers. Whether graffiti walls are legal or illegal, whether to guide or intercept, whether to build or prohibit, has caused controversy in various places. Ultimately, its direction in a place is determined by the consciousness and thoughts of the people there. A graffiti wall is more than just graffiti. How many cities in China have graffiti walls? How many schools will set up a graffiti wall specifically for students like Communication University of China?