Digital
Graffiti: Defining the Undefinable?
George Glasser
Academics attempt to define art into categories and then into subcategories, etc. However, the appreciation of art is a totally subjective experience - either you like it or you don't.
As for myself, Peter Max is my favorite artist. I saw an exhibition of his work in the late 1960s at the San Francisco Museum of Art. It wasn't the paintings that caught my imagination, but bits and pieces of his experiments with color and design - the unpolished, spontaneous work. It was evident that he was enjoying himself.
Starting out, I am sure that he had only a basic concept and was experimenting. However, the rough 'bits and pieces', for me, turned-out to be an inspiration that has remained fixed in my mind for over forty years.
The main thing that has always strikes a chord with me about Graffiti is, not so much the quality of art, but the surfaces on which they are painted - the textures such as bricks, wood grain and shabby walls. For me, that what makes them most exciting and interesting.
This section of G-Tigerclaw.com is experiments with graffiti styles and textures - I intend to be adding to the Graffiti Gallery as I come-up with interesting new ideas.
The following pieces are my experiments in creating a web-based digital graffiti style.
Click on the image to see several enlarged graffiti images. On some pages, there are several different variations of the subject matter.
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