A Dialogue On The Nature Of Art

A tag seems to have drawn the comment “There is a difference between art and grafetti” [graffiti] which in turn drew the response “No there’s not”.

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Fuck Art

Fuck Art graffiti in Lower North St. October 27th, 2012 – a defaced mural executed on Culture Night.

See also: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art | A Dialogue On The Nature Of Art.

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Not Criminals

Writing in Garfield Street, part of the Belfast Culture Night 2012, along with pieces by Praise, Visual Waste, and others.

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The Mark Of Zorro

Here is Visual Waste’s piece from Belfast Culture Night 2012 – Zorro the fox, so cunning and free, about to spray some art on the street.

Lower North Street. (See also Praise’s completed work from the same night.)

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Dot Dot … Dot

Above is the finished piece by Praise (from Belfast Culture Night 2012), which turned out really well. Lower North Street.

Constructivist? Suprematist?

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Kiss And Make Up

A  mural on the peace line at Cupar Way by Eoin O’Connor at artbyeoin.com. (On the other side of the fence we have Bombay St.)

Like the girl with the flaxen hair, it is written all over by every tourist who comes here in a black taxi or tourist bus.

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Belfast Culture Night 2012

Belfast has just (Friday 21st) had its fourth annual culture night and budding muralists were out in force. Here is random sample. Above is NOTA (none of the above)’s piece on shop shutters in North Street. Update 2013-02-28: A NOTA tag at Belfast Snapper.

Below is Praise, with a blue-and-white constructivist stencilling.

Praise’s piece is on the wall at the bottom of the wheel-chair ramp into (what was) the NI Tourist Board. Just around the corner, on North Street itself, we have this electrical box with white crosses with ‘Get Paid’ slogan, signed PB (??)

This crew didn’t have a name …

‘Visual waste’ was also there; here’s his tag stencil. We’ll have the finished products from Visual Waste and from Praise in a couple of days.

Here is video of various artists at work …

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California Dreamin’

Here’s the completed mural by Hicks54 painted last weekend as part of the East Belfast Arts Festival.

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