When is something deemed vandalism and when is it seen as art?
The first article made me smile at how cross people can get about things. I’m sure remembering the war and those who were in those gunneries is not a bad thing but they do look very bleak up on the hillside. With the art work on them I think they look brighter and more interesting. I think they are well painted. Nothing rude on them. And nothing war related or political. Apart from not asking permission what is wrong? [Read the article and you can see why some people think it is wrong]
Then this next one, greeted maybe not with joy but with positivity. Why? Well probably because it looks like a “Banksy” and Banksy can do no wrong. Again no permission was asked and no one knows who did it. It also does not depict anything rude, political or war related.
No wonder young people get confused. We venerate Banksy and their crew of random graffiti artists who do seem to see any wall space as fair game. In my county of Conwy some of the Leveling up money sent to the local councils is being spent on 5 murals for the 5 main towns in Conwy county. And lots of money and time is going into going into schools and “liaising”. The council will decide where it is going and we will have to be happy with it.
The difference between the one on the Great Orme and those in the five Conway towns seems to only be that the councils have decided that these are a good thing. I know in my town they will have to go on a historic building because all of the main part of the town is part of a conservation area where we cannot change the fronts of ours houses, etc, without filling in huge forms. But it will be ok to do that. And I am sure it will look very beautiful when done.
But again my question comes back to, I suppose, judgement. Who are we to judge what is art, what is a bit of fun and what is vandalism?
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 7:1-2
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