We now know that graffiti tags are not art. Judge Barrington Black said so as he jailed Michael Potter for causing nearly 10,000-worth of graffiti damage to London Underground trains.
"To inflict and expose on the general public these offensive and unsightly scratchings and drawings is both impertinent and arrogant, to say nothing of the offensive comments that you found it necessary to make about the police force. It is not art. Art is something people choose to view. You were imposing your marks upon a long-suffering public."
Interesting debating points there, m'lud. If being impertinent and arrogant rules out someone as an artist, you might need radical revision of the entire canon of Western art.
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