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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.
Paintings in the Chauvet Cave were made 35,000 years ago, but little is known about who made them or why. [8] Early artists created stencil graffiti of their hands with paint blown through a tube. These stencils may have functioned similarly to a modern-day tag .
American graffiti artists (170 P) C. Graffiti in California (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Graffiti in the United States" The following 32 pages are in this category ...
[120] [162] [163] By mid-1986 the NYCTA were winning their "war on graffiti". On May 10, 1989, the rolling stock was made 100% graffiti-free, [166] with the washing of the last train in the subway system that still had graffiti. [167] [168] As the population of artists lowered so did the violence associated with graffiti crews and "bombing". [162]
Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered one of the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1] [2] [3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia.
He became a graffiti writer at age 12, in the early 1970s, under the nom de plume BOMB-1, and by 15, he was a prolific and influential pioneer of subway graffiti art.
But the streets became more dangerous due to the burgeoning crack epidemic, legislation was underway to make penalties for graffiti artists more severe, and restrictions on paint sale and display made obtaining materials difficult. [3] Many graffiti artists, however, chose to see the new problems as a challenge rather than a reason to quit. [3]
“They’d never try to do anything, they’d never try to help us, to keep our minds occupied,” said Bowers, who was in the program from December 2011 to August 2012. “We were always bored, which caused a lot of drama.” The weekends were a “free-for-all,” said Angela Phillips, a former shift supervisor at Broward Girls.