A great example of ancient graffiti would be the literal hand writing on King Belshazzar's wall. You know the story....the one in the Bible - specifically Daniel 5. Dooming his kingdom into oblivion.
“And if art is a crime let God forgive all”
Yes, even graffiti!
The anonymous artists through the ages creating their ideas and scribbling them on the wall for all to see. Driving forth the creative spark inherent in us all. Gossip and political commentary, including those wicked and often funny vulgarities, have always been a common theme throughout history.
Whether you love it or hate it graffiti has always been an endearing factor in spreading ideas to affect human behavior. Anonymous images and memes compelling the common man to think, laugh, and sometimes even cry. Out in the fringes the bleeding hearts and artists making their stand.
Comic and vulgar with dramatic themes. Underlying the complex layers within the meme. From the simple taggers to the ones carving their dated names. They state for us all "I was here!"
This sort of leads into something like graffiti trolls. I wonder if spammers count as artists of a kind? Like cyber trolls spray painting bullshit everywhere. Graffiti to push products; more to push agendas. Lots of it is total garbage and is cleaned appropriately. Many are priming tags leading you to a specific idea or thing. The meme makers create effective devices of all sorts to garner public emotions. Spinning and swinging their preconceived plans of disinformation confusing many with cognitive dissonance.
Bear in mind, graffiti is illegal.
This brings us to today's logical fallacy:
Symbolism uses ideas and aspects to designate deeper and more significant meaning within its structure. Using all kinds of objects such as animals, plants, colors, and material articles of all kinds. Pictures and writing using allegory, metaphors, and similes are used to express symbolic ideas.
Symbolism offers a way to communicate with double meaning. The literal self evident portrait and the symbolic one which contains a more profound meaning or action.
An aspect of symbolism is Zoomorphism. This uses animal or other material characteristics to associate with non-animal objects. These can include humans, gods, and other non-human entities.
The opposite of this would be anthropomorphism. Which assigns human qualities into animals and other objects. It's a great way to describe different characters and create a symbolic language to add spice to your illustrations.
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