Street Art promotes ignorance?

You are not missing anything . It doesn't . It might be related to a political commentary about the banana republics , it which case it is thought provoking . To the Artist I say " Well Done ! ".

Street art is great . I have a fancy education too , I am just not an insecure , petty , snob . Some people have a personality problem that prevents them from seeing the beauty all around .

I really like street art.

Stories told by average people, not snooty art people. Its relevent, beautiful, talented and the farthest thing from ignorance or aggression.

Only closed minded arrogant fools would say "to celebrate street art is to promote ignorance and aggression".

Surely art which is more social than aesthetic means it is making people think, so in turn is more intellectually challenging than art which just looks nice and challenges nothing?

Plus anybody that is going to base their opinions on their perceived social standing is a complete f'ing c.

Yeap, promotes the ignorance of the art snobs, who thinks that art can exist only in an exhibition room, and ignores the form and the message given.

i want the writer to prove it...

bullshit.
This writer knows nothing about street art.

I guess one can argue about the aesthetics of all different kinds of art in general. But this still doesn't turn a piece of art or an entire cultural form, that is highly fragmented itself, into a bearer of aggression and ignorance.

And yeah, what's the bad thing about art as being social?

Thank you!

I read this and it made me want to puke up my porridge. The whole thing is so belittling and pompous and oozes with the ego and snobbery and everything I hate about art critics and the art world. How this author can sit there and say he's a champion of educating the masses to intelligent art and then say that street art isn't intelligent or aesthetic in the same breath made me smack my forehead. Seriously? What a contradictory statement. I could sit here and tear him a new one, but he makes himself look like enough of a noob with this article.
Maybe if he stepped of his high horse for a minute he'd realise that making a gross sweeping generalization about street art being aggressive and ignorant is actually aggressive and ignorant itself. And maybe he'd realise that street art has a great impact on present-day art culture, that the majority of it IS aesthetic (isn't everything visual aesthetic in some way?), and that art that is social isn't a bad thing (are we supposed to enjoy art in some kind of private and isolated vacuum?).