Wonderful graffiti can flash across the street.
Graffiti is a very interesting topic. Personally, I think the origin of art may be related to this. After eating and drinking enough, primitive people picked up a wooden stick on a whim, dipped it in the blood of animals, and drew a few strokes in the cave at random, which became the original form of painting art. Scholars of later generations always love to get to the bottom of it and have to figure out what these symbols mean. In fact, our ancestors must have understood the artistic truth of the theme first.
Graffiti is a kind of behavior between function and entertainment, which is difficult to define accurately. Its complexity lies in that when you think it is an art, so can migrant workers; When you think this is a profitable business, artists refuse to sell their souls in the name of graffiti. If analyzed purely from the perspective of semantics, graffiti is directly related to the destruction of the public environment. The most obvious example is the most famous graffiti work in China-getting a permit. Those who walk around the city with buckets of paste really make graffiti a household name.
Graffiti is a tradition of our nation. After expressing their grievances, Jianghu people can find some historical basis by writing poems on the wall or scribbling "Black Boy ×××" on the wall. Modern people also partly inherited the ancient people's enthusiasm for graffiti. There is a graffiti master in Hong Kong who calls himself "Kowloon the Great". His name is Ceng Zaocai. He is over 80 years old, so he is a little different from ordinary people. He has been writing unintelligible calligraphy all over the street for more than 40 years. I saw his style in a documentary. Writing in such a small place for forty years at such a big age is a work of art in itself. It is said that Ceng Zaocai's obsession with this is related to his self-appointed position. A self-righteous "Emperor of Kowloon" naturally feels that this prosperous and gentle town is his own. Leave some Mo Bao, is it similar to animals leaving their own body odor after defecation to determine the possession of territory?
Primitive graffiti has nothing to do with utility, but only on a whim. Some graffiti behaviors of modern people are unprofitable, such as the very popular "face" under the overpass and on the wall in Beijing a few years ago. The face outlined by lines has a big nose and baldness, but at first glance it is a masterpiece of professionals. Later, I saw the author's introduction in the newspaper, only to know that this kind of art with public buildings as canvas has long been popular abroad. This is probably the closest thing to the essence of graffiti. Unprofitable, completely based on the fascination with public buildings, is essentially different from the applicant.