For as long as humans have been able to write, people have been writing on walls. The Romans wrote on the buildings of the cities they conquered, and before words were even used, cavemen painted on the walls; this is why the Romans called this phenomenon graffiti writing. Graffiti is defined as “the act of writing or drawing on walls” with the aim of communicating a message to the general public (Merriam Webster). The term comes from the Greek word “Graphein”, which means “to write”. As times have changed, so have the forms of writing on walls. Today, a few different classifications separate graffiti, such as gang graffiti that street gangs use to mark their territory, graffiti that people write to express their political views, and graffiti art, which is the newer form of graffiti that has just emerged over the last twenty years. -five years. In urban environments, graffiti has taken on a dynamic, bold and often illegal presence. Recently, the question has arisen whether any form of graffiti can be considered art. Is it vandalism when placed on the side of a building or car, but art when it's on a canvas on someone's wall or in a gallery? Looking at these two views of graffiti, graffiti should be considered art because it encompasses three important elements of what defines "art": Graffiti art requires technical skills, highlights the vision of the artist world and thrives within the mainstream art community. First of all, the consideration of any art form is that it requires technical and artistic skills. Graffiti not only meets these requirements, but also introduces new skills with its own style into the art world. Slowly, but surely, the art community is recognizing that graffiti is a valid art form, even though the art community was more familiar with what graffiti was. Graffiti should be classified as art because of the skillful elements required, the expressive display of a particular graffiti artist's works, and the universal acceptance of graffiti as art. For these reasons, the public's view of graffiti should change. In order to shift this view of graffiti as vandalism to art, people need to look beyond the act of graffiti and instead invest in the beauty of the art found in graffiti. Change can only happen if the public does not wrongly equate artistic graffiti with gang graffiti. The sooner graffiti's eternal reputation is abandoned, the more the graffiti art form will breathe into the community at large. Overall, graffiti as an art is more likely to spread beyond its neighborhoods if only the public's perception of graffiti changes..