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Crack Is Wack is a mural created in 1986 by American artist and social activist Keith Haring.. Located near the Harlem River Drive in East Harlem, the mural serves as a warning against crack cocaine use, which was rampant in major cities across the United States during the mid to late 1980s.
The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [1] He started creating sculptures and mixed media works in 1979.
Scape Martinez (California) – abstract expressionist, graffiti, public art installations Kenny Scharf (Los Angeles) Seen (New York City) – "The godfather of graffiti", tattoos, toys
Manhattan's art scene is epic, but the island is still too expensive for most struggling artists. Brooklyn's art collective has long emerged and is also pricing out the up-and-coming set. Newark ...
RELATED: Some of the craziest ways smugglers hide drugs. He decided to create art with the drug bags he had collected. After three years of work, he has completed this dedicated project. "I made ...
His work became more abstract than the tags he wrote on subway cars. In 1984, Toxic participated in the group show Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti in Italy. [9] He was part of the exhibit Rapid Enamel at the University of Chicago in 2014, which was the first showcasing of graffiti in an American institution. [10]
The rave movement developed a new graphic art style partially influenced by 1960s psychedelic poster art, but also strongly influenced by graffiti art, and by 1970s advertising art, yet clearly defined by what digital art and computer graphics software and home computers had to offer at the time of creation.
Guerrilla art is a street art movement that first emerged in the UK, but has since spread around the world and is now established in most countries that already had developed graffiti scenes. In fact, it owes so much to the early graffiti movement, in the United States guerrilla art is still referred to as 'post-graffiti art'.