Some of the neat graffiti artwork on display near the Morningside Train Station. There’s some other good works around the rail network too but always room for more.
And can just be seen from in this shot taken from the platform.
Photo is credited to oh.yes.melbourne
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Good photos.No overhead wires.Western line still be completef
Beautiful borrow of Tretchikoff, Who is the Artist? Morningside has some great works.
You beat me to it: great copy of Tretchikoff.
I saw this artwork credited to Owen Dippie and Hipara August on Pinterest. More street art alongside the rail corridor in particular would be awesome.
Street art might be a more useful term than graffiti. Go Cut Collective.
Is this painted on someone else’s property without permission? If so, it is graffiti.
Is this painted somewhere with tacit or explicit permission? Then let’s not call it graffiti as that is uneccessarily misleading and provocative.
Graffiti can be legal and illegal. Street art can be legal and illegal.
Stop trying to redefine a word that has been defined for a very long time.
Try and evolve a little and consider that the word graffiti is not just a negative meaning of a hoodlum tagging on your fence. Go look up the definition and see for yourself.
Anyway, this is nice graffiti..
The second photo has work by Misery and Askew and a few other artists. Looks like a lot of it was done by the TMD (The Most Dedicated) crew
And if they paint it on the side of my car without my permission I’d want them arrested. But if I commissioned them to paint it on the side of my car, Id be stoked.
Theres a very fine line between the two yep. Its all a matter of opinion. Some people still consider Banksy’s artwork to be vandalism, and technically it is..
That morningside wall actually was getting painted over by the council around 2012 as the council thought it was vandalism, but in reality the owner of the building commissioned the artists to do the work there a few years before. Most people in the area thought it was great to have the artwork near the station as it gave Morningside a more colourful character. The council didn’t approve, after half the wall was damaged by the council the artists came back (at their own cost) and repainted the wall, hence if you go to see that wall now there is a completely different design on it. Since the council did that damage there has been a huge uprising in the mural/graffiti art scene and more and more walls are being filled with great art (Check out cross st in the city) as Auckland Council have slowly started to realise that painting every single wall GREY is not a great way to represent Auckland.
You still seem to be willfully missing the point. If the artwork has permission, it is not graffiti. If it does not have permission then it is graffiti no matter its artistic merit.
Using words with your own definition simply muddies the water and hinders communication.
You have just been told that this artwork did have permission.
I could find 10 people and all 10 would disagree with you.. but anyway.. you keep holding onto that dictionary like its your bible and i’ll carry on with my day.