>>In my opinion, individuals who react negatively to graffiti (as well as
art that they call "bad") either do not understand it, or are afraid of its
implications. Just my opinion.

I am stunned, and horrified, and appalled. The intent is kind, and the writer
clearly doesn't want to be judgmental. But graffiti is not "art," not even
Basquiet's graffiti, and to even consider it in the same category as the work
of the Old Masters and the Impressionists and, yes, even the Abstract
Expressionists -- pace, Jackson Pollock -- shows a serious and dangerous
lapse. Not everything done by the hand of man (or boy!!) is "Art" -- not even
Low Art. This post lends credence to "the dumbing of America."