In this painting, graffiti is used throughout the painting. In many of his paintings, the graffiti aspect pulls in the audience. It makes the audience wonder about why graffiti is even used in these paintings.
There is not any graffiti in the inside square; it is mostly in the outside square. The colors that are used are really dark as either black or gray. The graffiti is displayed in the empty darkness and does not appear on any object.
Knowing Daze's history, he grew up in New York and he painted graffiti on trains and buildings. The graffiti in most of his paintings could be used to show the world a part of his life. At this time, New York and many New England states associated graffiti with gang related activity and just had an overall negative connotation of graffiti. Daze could be using graffiti as a sign of rebellion. He is rebellion against the states thinking that graffiti is bad and he is instead showing it as a beautiful art piece. The graffiti does not have a negative connotation, but instead, it has a toneless meaning in paintings and it will take the tone of the painting. In this painting, the graffiti add to the hostile tone of the art piece. Not saying that graffiti is hostile, but the way it is in the scene and the color scheme that he used, it creates a hostile feeling. The darkness and clouds like feeling creates this.
There is not any graffiti in the inside square; it is mostly in the outside square. The colors that are used are really dark as either black or gray. The graffiti is displayed in the empty darkness and does not appear on any object.
Knowing Daze's history, he grew up in New York and he painted graffiti on trains and buildings. The graffiti in most of his paintings could be used to show the world a part of his life. At this time, New York and many New England states associated graffiti with gang related activity and just had an overall negative connotation of graffiti. Daze could be using graffiti as a sign of rebellion. He is rebellion against the states thinking that graffiti is bad and he is instead showing it as a beautiful art piece. The graffiti does not have a negative connotation, but instead, it has a toneless meaning in paintings and it will take the tone of the painting. In this painting, the graffiti add to the hostile tone of the art piece. Not saying that graffiti is hostile, but the way it is in the scene and the color scheme that he used, it creates a hostile feeling. The darkness and clouds like feeling creates this.