Is Graffiti And How Does It Affect Young People's Daily Life?

In the ancient ages, people lived in caves and made some drawings on the walls of the caves. They used everything which would help them to drawing such as mud, tree shells and blood of people. In that sense, the root of graffiti was based on the ancient ages. However, modern graffiti is more different. After the 1960s, with the global rebellion of people, especially consisted of young people, graffiti gained a great importance. In the 21.St century, graffiti has affected young people’s daily life in two ways regarding its bringing different approach to art as ideologically and socially as well as its being practical and creative. One of the two ways that affects young people’s daily life is bringing a different approach to art regarding ideologically

After the 1960s, the youth throught about arts and they critisized it. They throught art were captured into museums and galleries. They point on view brought to art a new ideological discipline named as a street art. People began to make art together at streets. Then, more and more people have got interested in art and its new ideology. Generally, young people have made graffiti, talked about it and changed it if they have not liked. For example, Banksy, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris, is one of the artists, who have affected young people the most with his graffities. Banksy made his graffities illegally at the beginning. He insisted on making street art and continued to make graffiti on the street. Today, with the legalization of making street art, many young people consider Banksy as one of the pioneers of the street art and they have made his graffities everywhere. Therefore, we can say that young people have got affected by Banksy’s ideological approach to art. Secondly, graffiti has a different

Firstly, graffiti is so practical to make. Young people do not have to know any rules to make it. However, for example, in music, you have to learn so many notes. In the graffiti, young people can make graffiti without any literary knowladge. In addition, graffiti is practical because of its costing. Making graffiti is very cheap. Young people just need sypray paints costing three or five liras. Secondly, making graffiti is so creative. In the graffiti, one can draw anything into mind so that one does not have to be based upon some rigit opinion his or her own graffities. Even if this structure of the graffiti creates some confliction in meaning of the graffiti, it is not so important for young people. They usually care about limitlessness, developed their creativity, of the graffiti. For example, in the Gezi Park protests, which young people made so many graffiti to protest the government, young people had the same goal but their graffities had so many different opinions. Young people just wanted to make something to protested to rhe government whether their graffities reflect their goals or