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  2. Graffiti - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa , especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. [42] Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially.

  3. Graffiti in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti is one of the four main elements of hip hop culture (along with rapping, DJing, and break dancing). [6] The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises both from early graffitists practicing other aspects of hip-hop, and its being practiced in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms. By the mid ...

  4. Glossary of graffiti - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti with text so stylized as to be difficult to read, often with interlocking, three-dimensional type. [8] Window Down window-down (...) Graffiti that has been painted below the window borders, almost always covering the whole surface in its length. The term is commonly used as a prefix with whole car, although other variations are ...

  5. Street art - Wikipedia

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    Also, there is the Distrito graffiti (graffiti district), that is a dedicated place with gubernatorial curatory with more than 600 pieces of Colombian and international artists. [88] Caracas at the beginning this art the works had a more cultural air, much of the first street arts in the country were related to politics. Messages of ...

  6. Tag (graffiti) - Wikipedia

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    Tags in Amsterdam. Tags are one of the primary forms of modern graffiti, along with throw ups and pieces.The act of writing a tag is known as tagging.Tags are often thought of as the simplest form of graffiti art, prioritising legibility and flow [1] and are the form that most artists start with. [2]

  7. Column: Vandalism or street art? What the graffiti-tagged ...

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    The colorful graffiti that adorns an abandoned skyscraper in downtown L.A. is, depending on who you ask, petty vandalism that plagues the city or vibrant street art that enriches.

  8. Urban art - Wikipedia

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    In Spain, urban art, influenced by graffiti art and urban art from New York, was born first in the peripheral neighborhoods of large cities and in the towns of their metropolitan areas and then spread throughout the rest of the country.

  9. Graffiti incidences have slightly decreased in Savannah as ...

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    In Savannah, there has been a slight decrease in graffiti cases that have violated the city’s anti-graffiti ordinance, according to code compliance data.