the true art in sGraffiti Art When you hear about graffiti you usually just think of vandalism or gangs but that is not what it is all about anymore. It now is becoming more of a modern art form, aillegal art form. Next time your driving into a bigger city or watching a train go by,maybe look for some of this art, you might be surprised with what some of these peoplecan do with a spray paint can. In this paper I want take a look into the history of graffiti,the way it is done, and who does it.Graffiti began as a form of communication on cave walls of early man.(HistoryofGraffiti). It used pictures and a form of letters to tell a story. The Egyptians used it a waywith hieroglyphics. But what graffiti artists do today is traced back to the Roman Empire,where graffiti was applied as the writing on the wall. Modern graffiti started during thelate 50’s and early 60’s, and was used by political activists and street gangs to markterritory. But in the late 60’s it took a whole new identity. It is now the underground artmovement, artist like TAKI 183 where making big noise in NYC. He was gaining fameby just writing his nickname on cities walls and on the subway trains. In 1971 New YorkTimes published an article on him. He was wasn’t the only one gaining fame throughgraffiti, many people from all over the world where starting to do it. In New York thesubway systems proved to be a line of communication and unifying element for all theseseparate movements (@149st). People from all five broughs became aware of eachothers efforts. This established interbrough competition. At this point it was a battle tohave the most tags as possible. This created the style of bombing. Bombing then led topieces and wild style. Graffiti is done in many different ways. It has developed to script and calligraphicstyles. Writers, which is graffiti artist, enhanced their tags with flourishes, stars and otherdesigns. Some designs where strictly...
