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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
ah, see, to me, graffiti really is an art form. i love graffiti. some of my favorite graffiti artists :
Miss'Tic
Nemo
Shepard Fairey
Blek le Rat
Banksy
and while it's not technically graffiti, i love the space invaders crew.
oh, and now i have to add blu to the list as well. 
i suspect if you asked any of these artists, they would not say that calling it graffiti is trivialising it. |
Well, I would call him more of a muralist. A painting on that scale, and not of subjects that are more typical of graffiti artists, seems to me to be more of a mural than "graffiti."
The idea, as I understand it anyway, behind graffiti is that it is generally written in form and has its foremost expression in that way. Some of the artists you have listed (I'll confess, I didn't get to see all the sites, but I will try to) seem to have aspects of graffiti in their work, but again, I would not call them graffiti artists.
Then again, maybe there's a difference between the US and France in terminology .... or between the US and Europe. In San Diego, we've got both types of artists working, as well as just graffiti in general. The muralists typically do some fairly monumental work, the graffiti artists seem to work on a much smaller scale (partly because so many of them are working without the permission of the owner of the wall ....).
However, while I will go on thinking that the artist in question is not a graffiti artist and that the bulk of the film in question was done by CGI rather than all stop motion, I won't try to belabor the point. Generally because Nate the Merely Average states that I'm a "bully" when I discuss a point .... and there is certainly no point in bullying people I like ... and I like you.
So, we'll just agree to disagree.
Although, we'll agree to agree that it's great art.