It is hard to write what you feel to be an original idea when you can see every idea that has come before you. I identify with the graffiti creator in this. He sees every idea and design that the canvas of the building has seen and he tries to come up with an original idea, something uniquely his own.
My idea of the artistic value of the graffiti is based purely on how I view it. Just glancing at a building with graffiti on it does not register as art. However if I stopped and looked at the building, it would have a chance of being art. Then the graffiti itself would have to pass an obscenity test. Finally I would have to find it pleasing to the eye to call it art.
This seems process seems complicated but almost everyone goes through something similar every time they look at something that is creative. As to the picture, which piece of graffiti, because all the parts together is distracting, and detracts from each individual piece.
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Why the obscenity test, I wonder? Why censure art? If one of the defining characteristics of art is to "shock" people into new awareness, isn't obscenity sometimes necessary? Think about Steinbeck's use of profanity in Of Mice and Men. . . .
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