Bathroom Graffiti Art

Bathroom Graffiti Art is one of the most intriguing genres of artistic design in the post modern era. Most people have experienced such vulgar and obscene art work, doodles, and scribbled messages on stalls in public restrooms for years. The general consensus of Bathroom Graffiti has been, up to this point, discredited as plain "rubbish." However, Bathroom Graffiti Art deserves much more recognition as an art form than it has been previously given. Most would contend that graffiti is a work of Urban Artists using walls or trains as their canvasses. Many have demonized this practice, however, within recent years the art community has embraced graffiti as a true form of artistic expression. There is also the recently explored notion of the "subconscious artist" paradox where, for example, those tasked by city officials to clean and cover up graffiti, in return create their own works of art (previously suggested on the Portland based film maker Matt McCormick's documentary short "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal").


With reference to Bathroom Graffiti Art, all the staples of true art are present; a strong political or social view, abstraction, layers of color, an emotional investment, a symbol or metaphor, poetical messages, shocking and/or controversial material, etc. Whether or not one would consider the notion that Bathroom Graffiti Art should be included in serious discussions about art remains to be seen. However, as Marcel Duchamp once exemplified within his own works, the question still lingers of "what constitutes as true art anyways?" Is Bathroom Graffiti a true art form or a defacing of public property and an inappropriate annoyance that is intrusive to one's public restroom experience? You tell me.