More on graffiti...

My last blog post touched on the increase in the acceptance of graffiti as a form of art.  In the same vein as that I found out about a type of graffiti called reverse graffiti.  We are all familiar with reverse graffiti in it's most basic form...the dirty car that someone has written "Wash Me" on.  The premise of reverse graffiti is cleaning somewhere that there is a lot of dirt to create images and words.  From a legal standpoint as far as I can tell there is no precedence that allows for the prosecution of reverse graffiti artists, because technically they are cleaning up. 

There is a pretty cool video that one of the more famous reverse graffiti artists made about a project he did in San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel.  The tunnel though not very long sees a tremendous amount of traffic and as a result is pretty much entirely caked with soot, dirt, and grime.  The artist used stencils to clean off grime in certain areas and created an amazing image. 

I really like urban art challenges the traditional definitions of art.  In this instance I think the urban art is challenging the already challenged idea of art.