I always say it: I love street-art but I hate vandalism.
When it comes to street art it seems as though the "go-to" for most of these guys is to just leave a "tag" or what is their call sign and that is it. I rarely find these interesting because while I can admire the skill it takes to do this not to mention the fact that the person is actually creating their own font in a way, it lacks any sort of real artistic vision.
That doesn't mean they are all bad though.
I ran into a couple of new finds in that I never noticed them until recently, they have clearly been here for a long time.
I appreciate this one because that is a pretty damn cool font they have their. But when I got closer I could see that it was made with a brush, not with spray. I have less of an appreciation for brushes when it comes to street art. To me it feels like cheating.
The next one is more of what I would consider to be traditional street tags but there is something about it that I find pretty neat. I'm not really pleased about the location of this though and the fact that neither of these two people had permission to do this. On the other side of that wall you can see that it is a pretty elaborate property and well, I guess that kind of explains why we have walls. There is also barbed wire on top as I am sure you can see.
I would much prefer to see both of these pieces somewhere that the person was allowed to do it, rather than just being a jerk and defacing someone else's property. Even if the work is outstanding and out of this world, I hate it when it is one someone else's property.
This could all be resolved if the city or the land owners that I have pointed out in the past simply had a place where these artists could legally do so. We have had 2 such places in the past but they were shut down either by the land owners or the government and shortly after that, the taggers returned to hitting up other people's property. To me it seems so simple kind of like how you can squash the whole skateboarding in public and becoming a nuisance but just having a skateboard park.
Maybe the government thinks that by having it be allowed in certain areas that it will encourage people to do it in places that it isn't allowed as well. I don't agree with this standpoint because I view it as an educational opportunity to let kids or even adults know that art is great, but defacing other people's property is not. Like with most things I feel there is a time and a place.
I got off topic there a bit. The point was that these are in Da Nang and they are just "ok" IMO.