Totem Graffiti

Totem Graffiti

July 4th is a wonderful time to be in the US as the country heads into fete mode to mark Independence Day – and New York in particular is the place to travel to for the ultimate celebration.

Americans up and down the nation look forward to the world vacation every year, provision a host of parades, parties, fireworks shows, barbecues and much more besides to honour the moment when the US freed itself from British rule in 1776.

In New York, revellers wait in anticipation of the biggest fireworks display in the Read the rest of this entry »

Toy Graffiti

Toy Graffiti

In order to learn to graffiti you need to know that it’s about more than just learning how to tag your name. To avoid making a bad name for yourself or acquiring on the wrong side of other graffiti writers you’ve got to be attached to learn to graffito the right way.

All graffito writers start out labelled as ‘toys’. To lose that label you need to work to earn the respect of other writers as well as show respect for the meanings and history of graffiti. You will ne’er lose the ‘toy’ label if you Read the rest of this entry »

Train Graffiti

Train Graffiti

Graffiti’s first roots began to appear in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 60s when a couple of young boys started tagging corn bread and cool earl all over the city until almost every where you looked you would see corn bread and cool earl written in trains walls windows etc. Soon this radical way of expression know as graffiti art caught the community and local press attention.

A few year later after the movement of cornbread and cool earl took notice many graffiti artist where slowly appearance in to the streets of Manhattan, but it wasn’t Read the rest of this entry »

Types Of Graffiti

Types Of Graffiti

Anti Graffiti Coatings is a kind of coating which is through on the top of the paint that exists already or on the facades of the building. These anti graffito coatings prevent graffiti paints from acquiring stuck on to the surfaces of the walls. This saves a lot of money for the owners of the building as removing graffito from the costs thousands of dollars every year. Although there are a lot of anti graffito programs all over the world, vandalism is some thing which continues to be big problem. World over various companies ar trying to put together Read the rest of this entry »

Wall Graffiti

Wall Graffiti

Parks provide a place where city people can spend their leisure time in a more relaxed and undisturbed manner. They are an important part of cities, and sometimes are even the focal point of a city. Especially now in this technological world, many people ar determination parks helpful for their enjoyment of outdoor activities including picnics and other sporting activities. Since parks have less pollution; many fitness enthusiasts ar finding these parks appropriate for their regular fitness activities. Furthermore, parks ar ideal venues for other social gatherings and culminating events for city residents including concerts, dance classes, and many Read the rest of this entry »

Wheat Paste Graffiti

Wheat Paste Graffiti

Street Poster Art – The Concept

Poster Art secures an important position in the world of Street Art. It is actually Graffiti through on paper. While most of these posters are 100% handmade, some ar digital designs as well. Moreover, being a basic art form this genre stayed in the local street corners and roadstead rather than sitting pretty inside a gala museum or gallery. While experts often debate about the contemporary side of such works, many artists find it the most ‘modernist’ of styles with free expression.

The History

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Wild Graffiti

Wild Graffiti

Graffiti is a visual practice of expressing oneself through writing letters or drawing pictures on the wall. It is accepted as an art by some circles but considered as vandalism by some others.

When we consider the shapes plotted in the walls of the craves in the ancient time, we can say that this way of expressions can go back to the primitive ages. But the impetus for modern graffito as the art of drawing on the walls was the hip-hop youth subculture which appeared in 1970s in the USA.

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Wild Style Graffiti

Wild Style Graffiti

Hip hop graffito began in New York City in the early 1970′s when artists would “bomb” a subway with their logo and street, lease everyone know who it was that did it. Over time the art form developed into a full mature member of the hip hop community, along with rapping, DJing and breakdancing, all of which are called elements. During this period, graffiti artists would attempt to outdo each other by creating more pieces in the least amount of time. They would blanket all five boroughs of New York (known as going “all city”) with their graffiti. This Read the rest of this entry »

Wildstyle Graffiti

Wildstyle Graffiti

One of the most important design elements in graffito art is the arrow. Arrows express movement and energy. In her groundbreaking book “Tag Town”, Martha Cooper photographed vintage graffiti tags in her Washington Heights neighborhood, still visible from the early 1970′s to 1980′s (tags are those hard to read scribbles you see on mailboxes and other surfaces around most cities). Many of these tags contained arrows, as well as stars, hearts, numbers, and crowns. From studying the images of these early tags, we were able to determine that the complex variations of arrows we see in today’s advanced Read the rest of this entry »

Wildstyle Graffiti Alphabet

Wildstyle Graffiti Alphabet

You can travel almost anywhere in the world, and you will probably see graffiti. Although graffito art is usually more common in big cities, the reality is that it can occur in almost any community, big or small.

The trouble with graffito art is the question of whether it’s really art, or just plain vandalism. This isn’t always an easy question to answer, simply because there ar so many different types of graffiti. Some is simply a monochrome collection of letters, known as a tag, with little artistic merit. Because it’s quick Read the rest of this entry »