Replacing the drab city walls and boring metal subway trains with greetings and flashy colors, most graffiti artists honestly saw themselves as doing a service to the city. City officials and stuffy citizens hardly agreed. Massive anti-graffiti campaigns grew right along with the artform itself and are still in effect today in most major metropolitan areas. These specialized anti-graffiti forces only added to the artform's already outlawed status. The ability to pull off a hype piece under such increasing pressure only made great writers more revered for their skills.
Graffiti still thrives in the jungles of our inner cities.
Anyone can grab a can of spray paint or a fat marker and make their thoughts known to the passing population. You can buff graffiti, you can paint over it and you can arrest its practitioners, but as long as someone feels that their voice isn't being heard, you can't make it go away. The Internet Voice For The Graffiti Victim Scary anti-graffiti website. Anarchy does not mean without order, but it does mean without rule - except one that you would like voluntarily. Gang And Graffiti Resources More misinformed anti-graff propaganda.