Graffiti: A work of art or vandalism?

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There are two types of “graffiti”: one is the called street art which are beautiful creative paintings that artists (almost always unknown) paint on the street walls with, most of the times, sprays; the other type is graffiti, which is an act of vandalism that makes the cities’ walls look dirty, on example of graffiti could be those signs that you can see a lot of times on the streets in almost every city.

In the street art there are lettering techniques such as:             

BUBBLE LETTERS

BLOCK LETTERS

WILDSTYLE

CALLIGRAFFITI

Some graffiti painters are Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat (SAMO), Jose Parla or BANSKY