The day before yesterday, I posted a photo of street art in St Kilda and I commented on the difference between street art and graffiti. This photo, to me, illustrates the difference. Here an interesting piece of street art by Fintan Magee has been painted over with graffiti and around the corner of the building by tagging. I particularly dislike tagging, which to my mind is just random spray painting in some kind of narcissistic expression.
I quite like good street art which is more usually images done with permission and is often commissioned to enhance particular spaces or streetscapes. Graffiti is often more about lettering, and can be invasive and damaging of other people's property as well as visually intrusive and often an expression of urban grunge.
Thanks for reminding me that I forgot to acknowledge the artist in my discussion of graffiti v street art. I have now edited. THanks for the link!@onewing
I am a big fan of street art and we have some lovely artworks in Newcastle. Luckily none of it seems to get ruined by taggers.
Here is a link to a work by Magee in Newcastle taken early this year.
http://365project.org/onewing/365/2021-01-05