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    The document is a response letter to the editor of The Guardian regarding an article by Jonathan Jones expressing his negative views of graffiti. The letter argues that Jones' views are mistaken as graffiti is a diverse art form with many styles, not just the simple tagging style Jones focused on. The letter states that while some graffiti may not be visually attractive, it ignores the many amazing styles used. It also partially disagrees that graffiti is only valued because it is made by men, though acknowledges women have less space in the male-dominated graffiti world. The letter concludes that art is subjective and what is considered attractive varies between individuals.

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    To: editor@theguardian.

    com

    From: migspontes@gmail.com

    Subject: Response to the article of Jonathan Jones about his opinion on graffiti

    Dear editor,

    I am writing to express my thoughts regarding graffiti and the article “Graffiti is ugly,
    stupid and threatening, there’s more creativity on crochet.”

    For first I wish to provide a distinct perspective from the one presented in the
    article. To begin, the author Jonathan Jones expresses his opinion saying that the vast
    majority of graffiti is ugly, stupid, and vaguely threatening, Jonathan quotes too on the
    article David Lynch opinion (that graffiti is ruining the world and making our planet ugly)
    to prove his point of view. He punctuates too that Graffiti is a pretentious subcultural
    backbeat that is replicated everywhere, with the same style, chunky lettering, and
    coded messages. And still not enough he says that graffiti is hypermasculine,
    aggressive and destructive of people’s desire for a decent environment, and that the
    society only value this kind of art because is done by men.

    Well to start in my perspective Jonathan Jones is tremendously mistaken by


    saying that graffiti is ugly, threating and all with the same style, because graffiti is a highly
    creative and diverse art form with numerous styles and techniques used by artists worldwide.
    Jones based his opinion without really knowing about graffiti, he in general to form his opinion
    picked a portion of artists on graffiti, who uses the style of tags on their paints, this style is the
    simplest form of graffiti, consisting of the artist's name or signature written in a stylized manner.
    And because some graffiti arts use this style not being the most visually attractive, he
    generalizes all graffiti’s by being ugly and stupid, he just ignores the innumerous amazing styles
    and techniques that graffiti has, like the 3D graffiti, Stencils, Bubble letters, and etc... Other
    misconception made by Jonathan is the fact of the saying that graffiti is only valued because are
    made by men, and I partially disagree with his opinion because graffiti is a form of art that is
    made on urban environments, and most people that see this kind of arts don’t appreciate more or
    less because its made by a men or a women and yes because its own beauty, but I understand too
    that in general women on the world of graffiti have less space in context of a society male-
    chauvinist.

    Based on this concerns it is important to punctuate that art is subjective, and that it don’t has a
    based form, considering what is visual attractive or not, everyone has an unique point of view to
    understand art.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Best regards,

    Pedro Pontes

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