— Although modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia in the late 1960 s when CORNBREAD and COOL EARL began bombing their names on streets and subways, New York City will always be graffiti’s home.
Up to the 1970 s, most New Yorkers hated graffiti, considering it as an eyesore that was illegal and punishable by fines.
You get graffiti in places where you wouldn't expect to – in advertisements, on clothes, on toys.
In the early 1980 s, there was a real craze for graffiti art and the sophisticated Manhattan art would have displays of street art in its galleries. The trend was short-lived - until the arrival of hip-hop music in the late 80 s. “Graffiti came back with hip-hop music and people are now appreciating it for its style, which they couldn't back then, because they couldn't get beyond the vandalism thing. ”
Lee Quinones is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement. European galleries and museums are more open to this art form and they want to support an artist as he develops.
Graffiti
Genres For Graffiti Style The main categories of styles for pieces are commonly known as publics, semi -public, wildstyle, semi-wild style, blockbuster, straight letter and abstract. It is normal for a writer to be proficient in one style. A good writer will have the ability to an individual style in the public, semi-wild and wildstyle format. A great writer, a supreme stylist or colloquially the 'KING OF STYLE". Two kings of styles are SEEN and BATES. Both are proficient in all styles
PUBLIC STYLE Public style' is read easily by the public. Legibility is the key to this style. This style is like signwriting in its look and intentions. forms are many and include straight letter styles, creeper style , Western Saloon
BLOCKBUSTERS A blockbuster style is a very common straight letter style. The name blockbuster is taken from the movie expression and perhaps a rehash of the term ‘blockbuster sale' or 'blockbuster' movie. The blockbuster is similar to the throw up in that simple and usually minimal in colour use. Writers like BLADE were the first to use the blockbuster style of lettering. It was an effort to gain quick name recognition and to cover up the work of other writers. Writers commonly see it as a lesser letter style because of its reductive nature. It is often seen as a minimalistic style in that style is reduced to essences.
Wildstyle is a complicated and intricate form of graffiti. Due to its complexity, it is often very hard to read by people who are not familiar with it. Usually, this form of graffiti incorporates interwoven and overlapping letters and shapes. It may include arrows, spikes, and other decorative elements depending on the technique used. The numerous layers and shapes make this style extremely difficult to produce homogeneously, which is why developing an original style in this field is seen as one of the greatest artistic challenges to a graffiti writer. Wildstyle pieces are also known as "burners", meaning "hot" as fire. Wildstyles are seen as one of the most complicated and difficult tags and are often used to get an artist's work seen
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