Boltar wrote:
Richard J. wrote:

I would hardly call painting the Mona Lisa "defacing" the canvas.

The canvas was there to be painted on. Someones wall isn't. Perhaps
this is too complex a concept for you to understand?

No, it isn't, but the context of my comment to the preceding posts is
evidently too complex for you to understand.

Yes, there *are* graffiti artists who create real works of art on
surfaces which previously had no visual value. For example, a
café-front shutter in Paris (see
http://images.fotopic.net/y74ltp.jpg )

Is that supposed to be the best example you can find? It looks no
better than a million pictures in childrens books. Its hardly on par
with Da Vinci.

I didn't claim it was. It happened to be one I saw being painted, and my
photo of it was already on the web. I merely said that I regarded it as
a work of art without commenting on how good a work it was. If it was
done without the owner's permission, it was also vandalism.

[Rest of your post snipped, as you seem to have completely misunderstood
the drift of my posts in this thread.]
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Richard J.
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