[HN Gopher] Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vand...
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Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street
art
Author : pseudolus
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-04-18 10:57 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| doitLP wrote:
| "Novel hydrogels found to be highly persistent and toxic to
| marine species at 1ppb"
| nynx wrote:
| There was a Banksy on my street in San Francisco that had paint
| thrown over it. Perhaps this method could help recover the art.
| friseurtermin wrote:
| I'm gonna be the one who says it: why is the Banksy worth
| saving but the thrown paint is not?
| johtso wrote:
| I guess a better question is, why is the Banksy stencil
| something that needs to be protected, but the work by the
| unknown street artist not.
|
| Because Banksy is a famous brand, and his work has big price
| tags attached to it.
|
| The whole thing is totally unique and fascinating. Banksy has
| developed his concept so well. He clearly also acknowledges
| the absurdity of the situation. His self shredding painting
| is clearly a comment on the contraction between the ephemeral
| and the valuable.
|
| Street art is inherently ephemeral. It's the wild west. There
| are no rules (although sometimes etiquette), because by its
| very nature it is breaking the rules.
|
| Seeing newspaper articles where people are talking about a
| Banksy piece having been "vandalised", or that someone
| cutting out a piece of their wall to sell it is "stealing
| something that belongs to the community".
|
| At the same time, street art in general is viewed as
| vandalism. The law doesn't try to make distinctions based on
| the artistic merit of a specific bit of unauthorised public
| space modification.
|
| But money and fame, that's something anyone can understand!
| If something is worth money, then it's good. You painted on
| my wall! How lucky I am! Oh yeah and the pictures great too,
| what a clever image!
|
| I personally think his work is pretty good. But much more
| interesting is how society has reacted to it.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| Why is any state preferred over any other state?
| pie420 wrote:
| Why do you prefer to breathe rather than hold your breath?
| 8128js8121 wrote:
| Why does anything humanity think matter.
| dehrmann wrote:
| For all we know, Banksy was the vandal. He did build a
| shredder into a picture frame...
| prvc wrote:
| In that particular case, because people will pay money for
| them, and in the other cases in the article, because people
| agree with the political messages or like the appearance of
| the approved graffiti better. More to the point, though, the
| conceptual distinction which the article is trying to draw
| between "graffiti", as opposed to "street art" is just made
| up philosophically bankrupt nonsense.
| pcl wrote:
| To my eye, pieces attributed to Banksy have a unique and
| appealing aesthetic, and the art generally is thought-
| provoking. He also has a knack for pushing all sorts of
| buttons. See his immigration piece in Clacton-on-Sea [1] for
| an example of all of the above.
|
| A paint splash hastily thrown on his art is less compelling
| to me, on all these dimensions. Perhaps it's a particularly
| well-splashed bit of paint, but even so, the closest it can
| really come to commentary is something along the lines of
| "Banksy works in a transient medium, and all things in life,
| including street art, are destined to be painted over" or
| perhaps "this, too, is art". But at this point, that is a not
| particularly original bit of expression, and I'd just as soon
| have the Banksy on display.
|
| [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-29446232
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