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An anti-graffiti coating is a coating that prevents graffiti paint from bonding to surfaces. Cleaning graffiti off buildings costs billions of dollars annually. [ citation needed ] Many cities have started anti-graffiti programs but vandalism is still a problem.
Reverse graffiti [note 1] is a method of creating temporary or semi-permanent images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface. It can also be done by simply removing dirt with the fingertip from windows or other dirty surfaces, such as writing "wash me" on a dirty vehicle.
Stencil graffiti is a form of graffiti that makes use of stencils made out of paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint.
Some have asked if it is sufficient to place art in the street to make street art; Nicholas Riggle looks more critically at the border between graffiti and street art and states that "an artwork is street art if—and only if—its material use of the street is internal to its meaning". [44] The street is not a blank canvas for the street artist.
His first stencil work was put up in 2006, but he has been a graffiti artist for (as of 2011) over 20 years. [2] His work consists mainly of close up portraits of people. C215's subjects are typically those such as beggars, homeless people, refugees, street kids and the elderly.
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. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in Philadelphia, by writing their monikers on walls across the city. [4]
Commissioned murals typical of Barry McGee's earlier work and graffiti in the LACMA parking garage (now torn down) Barry McGee has exhibited, both solo and group, in galleries internationally. McGee was a central figure in the graffiti art scene in San Francisco from the late 1980s and into the 1990s. [ 9 ]
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