KURIKULUM MERDEKA

WORK IN PROGRESS

FOR SMA/MA GRADE X

CHAPTER 5

GRAFFITI
3.
Watch and
Learn • What is broadcasted by the
TV channel?

• Why do you think the

television channel
broadcasted the issue of the
graffiti?

• Do you think graffiti is

disturbing? Why or why not?
Scan the barcode
to watch the video!
 Why Should Graffiti be Considered Art?
In this article, I will explain why graffiti is art, and I will explain how graffiti is essential in our culture.

3A. There are some reasons why graffiti shows us the potential that life has to offer.
First, graffiti enables the public to see something they may have never seen before. It connects
Let’s Read them to the artist, and the artist gets to know that their work is loved and affects those who see it. They
can take a simple old building or any piece of art on the side of a building and turn it into a masterpiece
by putting their mark on it. The artists who paint graffiti have made this art form what it is today. Graffiti
artists can change the meaning of what they are drawing to the public.
Second, graffiti has the power to affect people positively. The people who create it are expressing
themselves. They are expressing their artistic abilities and their voices through a canvas. Their voices
are the voices of our future. You can tell the quality of a person’s painting by the audience that they are
drawing. People will stand and watch you paint for hours. Many times, they will stand and look, never
Read the once moving from their spots. People will then tell you how much they like it and share their thoughts
expository text and opinions. The artists are no longer making art for themselves.
carefully!
The last reason why graffiti is an art is because of its uniqueness. Graffiti can be made with many
different materials, but its most common form is made by applying paint to a building’s wall. Graffiti is
made by someone utterly other than the artist, which means no two pieces are the same. Graffiti is a
form of expression because it gives the reader or viewer the chance to see something different from
their everyday life. Graffiti art is not meant to be understood by everyone, but everyone is meant to be
appreciated.
Thus, as part of the existing society, every person must strive to educate themselves of the origins
of graffiti and how it has evolved to this very day. A stock of knowledge doesn’t hurt; instead, it is a door
that leads to understanding and more positivity.
 Graffiti is Always Vandalism
3A. Anyone who glorifies graffiti needs to answer one question: If your home were tagged during the night
without your consent, would you welcome the new addition to your décor or would you immediately call
Let’s Read a painter, if not the police?
First of all, graffiti is something that one celebrates, if one is juvenile enough to do so, when it
shows up on someone else’s property but never on one’s own. No institution that has celebrated graffiti
in recent years — like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles or the Museum of the City of
New York — would allow its own premises to be defaced for even one minute.
Next, the question “When does graffiti become art?” is meaningless. Graffiti is always vandalism.
By definition, it is committed without permission on another person’s property, in an adolescent display
Read the of entitlement. Whether particular viewers find any given piece of graffiti artistically compelling is
expository text 2 irrelevant. Graffiti’s most salient characteristic is that it is a crime.
carefully! Furthermore, John Lindsay, the progressive New York politician who served as mayor from 1966 to
1973, declared war on graffiti in 1972. He understood that graffiti signaled that informal social controls
and law enforcement had broken down in New York’s public spaces, making them vulnerable to even
greater levels of disorder and lawbreaking. A 2008 study from the Netherlands has shown that physical
disorder and vandalism have a contagious effect, confirming the “broken windows theory.”
In conclusion, there is nothing “progressive” about allowing public amenities to be defaced by
graffiti; anyone who can avoid a graffiti-bombed park or commercial thoroughfare will do so, since
tagging shows that an area is dominated by vandals who may be involved in other crimes as well.
 Expository

3B.
Both Neither Your Notes
Text 1 Text 2

Let’s Graffiti is art

Answer Graffiti is always vandalism

Graffiti is celebrate by those who are

Read the statements juvenile
and decide if they are
found/discussed in Graffiti connects the public and the artist
either Expository Text
1 or Expository Text 2. Graffiti turns simple building into a
Tick the appropriate masterpiece
box. Graffiti has the power to affect people
Tick both, if the positively
statement is
found/discussed in Graffiti is committed without permission
both Expository Text 1 on another person’s property
or Expository Text 2.
Tick neither, if the No two pieces of graffiti are the same
statement is not
found/discussed in Physical disorder and vandalism have a
both Expository Text 1 contagious effect
or Expository Text 2.
Read the two texts Everyone is meant to be appreciated
again carefully this
time, pay attention to The one who created graffiti is usually
the details, then select involves in other crimes as well
the best answer.
3C. Expository Text 1 Expository Text 2
Let’s
Compare
What is the author claiming?

What reasons does the author use to support the claim?

Compare
Expository Text 1 What evidence does the author include?
and Expository
Text 2 by
completing the
table.
What does the author say as the closing?