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You've got it spot on
Graff writers generally aren't fans of street artist.
Graffiti is generally done illegally and is self taught or passed on from toehr writers
In my view they generally look at street artists as people who only paint legal walls, don't follow 'the rules' of Graff, do it for the wrong reasons. I could go on here
Then there's the whole stencils/projectors etc. That Graff writers can't stand due to it being seen as colouring inTldr: street art is usually pretty pictures and Graff is hard to decipher and usually done by writers for writers not general consumption
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so as somebody who isn’t into ‘graff’ can anyone explain the schism between street art and graffiti?
looking in from the outside it seems that street art is the palatable socially acceptable end and the true graffiti artists detest this with a passion so will tag the shit out of it. is this the case?
there is a Gary x Pref piece near me and it didn’t take long for it to to be tagged and essentially vandalised.
happy to be educated on this bit it seems that the extreme ends of the spectrum really don’t like each other?