While graffiti is art it can be considered vandalism depending on where you do it. Graffiti is just art but on a different canvas. Art brings light and color as well as graffiti, graffiti artists don't get the chance to show that graffiti is art because people think of it as vandalism.

When and where is graffiti done?

The first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York.

Is graffiti a form of art?

Graffiti art is another form of an artist using their creative skill as an expression in a visual form. ... Like many other art forms, graffiti has evolved over time, creating a change of lifestyle from tagging on subway trains, freeways or an abandoned building.