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  2. Graffiti in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Graffiti - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. JR (artist) - Wikipedia

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    JR (French pronunciation: [ʒi ɛʁ]; born 22 February 1983 [3]) is the pseudonym of a French photographer and street artist. JR stands for the initials of JR's first name, which is Jean-René. [4] Describing himself as a photograffeur (a portmanteau of "photographer" and "graffeur"—French for " graffiti artist"), he flyposts large black-and ...

  5. Judy Baca - Wikipedia

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    Website. judybaca.com. Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies, world arts, and cultures based at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California. [1]

  6. Great Wall of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The chosen thumbnails were finished in color and then transferred to the wall in large scale. [2] The process from start to finish for each section of the wall took about a year. [4] Originally, 80 young people from the juvenile justice program were recruited to help work on the mural. [2] They worked about 25 hours a week at minimum wage. [14]

  7. Chicano art movement - Wikipedia

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    The Chicano Art Movement represents groundbreaking movements by Mexican-American artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by Chicano Movement (El Movimiento) which began in the 1960s. Chicano art was influenced by post- Mexican Revolution ...

  8. Cornbread (graffiti artist) - Wikipedia

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    Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1][2][3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in ...

  9. Keith Haring - Wikipedia

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    street art. Website. www.haring.com. Signature. Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. [ 1 ] His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". [ 2 ]