Your Art Clashes

Cities are amazing. So far in my 23 years of life I have been fortunate enough experience two of my favorite cities. I grew up 45 minutes outside of New York City, a city that in my opinion is one of the most culturally unique places in the United States. I now live in a very close runner up, San Francisco. As a longtime lover of all things pertaining to art I have noticed myself drawn to graffiti on sidewalks, murals on otherwise unnoticeable buildings and masterpieces hanging in exclusive museums.

The last week alone I have managed to snap pictures of amazing artistic collections in San Francisco and my friends have done the same in New York City. It amazes me that simple things like graffiti on the sidewalks of San Francisco vary so vastly from graffiti found in New York City. I was dumbfounded when I moved west to find a clash in musical tastes and styles, but I thought that art was one of the few things that would be universally similar; an idea that as a former Art History Major sounds incredibly ignorant when put on paper.

Here are just a few of the photos that I found noteworthy:

Sidewalk Art: San Francisco (Above)

Sidewalk Art: NYC (Above)

On the wall at a Muni Station: SF (Above)

On the wall in a subway station: NYC (Above)