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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by tchaffee on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:41AM (#36588158)
You're uninformed about it all being the same. The graffiti in São Paulo has a vast range of styles. I have hundreds of photos I've taken myself. This fine art I can see outdoors is one of the most pleasurable things about living or visiting there.

I studied art in university, am an artist myself, and visit major exhibitions around the world on a regular basis. Much graffiti is indeed valid art.

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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by Luctct on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:49PM (#36589218)
"I have hundreds of photos I've taken myself." Good argument if true.

"I studied art in university, am an artist myself" Garbage argument. Universities sell debt and false authority badges, not knowledge. And of course it never crossed your mind that I might be an artist myself. No, it didn't. It very obviously didn't.

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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by oivey on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:13PM (#36589598)
I’d expect an artist to know that a mural is just art applied to a wall. That includes frescos like The Last Supper.

Usually artists also don’t police and get so angry about other people’s self expression.

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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by lIl-IIIl on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:15PM (#36589627)
>"I studied art in university, am an artist myself" Garbage argument.

Why? I would assume "what is art?" is a subject on which much time is spent in art school.

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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by lo_zamoyski on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:30PM (#36589854)
That's not a question for artists, but philosophers of art, which, of course, artists can also do, but generally, most artists are really bad at philosophy.
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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:38PM (#36589975)
University begins with philosophy so the question would indeed have been asked.
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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by vjjsejj on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:52PM (#36589262)
To be fair you definitely do sound like an “artist”
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Re:Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) by egypturnash on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:41PM (#36590919)
If you might be an artist then where's your portfolio? There's no links in your profile, zero HN submissions. Put up or shut up.

The NYC gallery scene started bestowing art-ness upon people who became known for the work they painted on the city's walls around... exactly forty years ago, I looked up Kieth Haring as a random example and galleries started showing his work in 1983.

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