Due to modern television and computers along with DVD <br />technology, digital photography the need for art as the world <br />knew it had greatly waned. For the first time in thousands of <br />years man saw no more a need for art in his life. <br />Religion, hunting were no more to be described nor his strife. <br /> <br />However, along concrete drainage walls for that matter wooden <br />walls…….any walls…… even train carriages a new artist <br />emerged, he is the graffiti artist. Festooning his tags <br />espousing his individuality and at a great risk. <br />His work must be very unusual and brisk. <br /> <br />Communities around the world are getting sick and tired of <br />seeing tags scrawled all over trains, buses and shopping fronts. <br />It is so unsightly. <br />At the Miller shopping centre which really is a welfare suburb <br />in south- western Sydney the local council had an idea superb. <br /> <br />They commissioned a real artist with old world traditional <br />craft abilities called painting and asked him to create murals <br />on the walls. An amazing thing happened, it was the murals that <br />gave out the command “Do not wreck these walls, <br />these walls are no more graffiti stalls. <br /> <br />To this day there are still no tags on the murals the graffiti artists <br />have respected the command. Maybe there still is a <br />need for the artist after all. <br />It is the only idea that has worked in order to stop graffiti art. <br />Welcome to the renaissance……..well it’s a start. <br /> <br /> <br />(7/9/2010)<br /><br />Jerry Behr Number 2<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/command-5/
