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A heavily tagged subway car in New York City in 1973. By the mid-1970s, most standards had been set in graffiti writing and culture. The heaviest "bombing" in U.S. history took place in this period, partially because of the economic restraints on New York City, which limited its ability to combat this art form with graffiti removal programs or transit maintenance.
Modern Graffiti. Modern graffiti style has been heavily influenced by hip hop culture [27] and started with young people in 1960s and 70s in New York City and Philadelphia. Tags were the first form of stylised contemporary graffiti, starting with artists like TAKI 183 and Cornbread.
This changed when paint became illegal for anyone under 18 to buy. People began to get into street art later in life and art became more developed. [5] When graffiti started it was generally neighborhood or gang related. Around the mid-1980s graffiti became about placing one's signature everywhere they possibly could.
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. [2] Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graffiti into a more commercial form of art, as one of the main differences now lies with the messaging.
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Barry McGee was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California. [2] He is of Chinese and Irish descent. [5] His father worked at an auto body repair shop. [5] McGee graduated from El Camino High School in South San Francisco, California. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where he graduated in 1991 with a concentration in painting and ...
She created the graffiti art event in 2013 in honor of her brother, Salvador “Bizare” Lujan, a graffiti artist who in 1986 founded a well-known Bay Area-based graffiti crew called Lords Crew ...
Stefano Bloch is an American author and professor of cultural geography and critical criminology at the University of Arizona who focuses on graffiti, prisons, the policing of public space, and gang activity. [1][2] Bloch is the author of Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture[3][4] published by University of Chicago ...