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Richard Mirando, known as Seen, is an American graffiti artist. [1][2] He is one of the best known graffiti artists in the world and has been referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti. [1] Seen first started to paint on the New York City Subway system in 1973. [1] He was born in the Bronx, New York City.
Website. kawsone.com. Brian Donnelly (born November 4, 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s, [1] initially painted in 2D and later realized in 3D.
Website. al-diaz.com. Al Diaz (born June 10, 1959) is an American urban artist and lecturer best known for being among the first generation of graffiti writers in the community and for co-creating the graffiti campaign SAMO© with Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1978. [2][3][4]
Modern Graffiti. Modern graffiti style has been heavily influenced by hip hop culture [27] and started with young people in 1960s and 70s in New York City and Philadelphia. Tags were the first form of stylised contemporary graffiti, starting with artists like TAKI 183 and Cornbread.
Awards. Fulbright scholar (2007), Pew Center for Arts (2009) Website. www.firstandfifteenth.net. Stephen J. Powers (born May 25, 1968) is an American contemporary artist and muralist. He is also known by the name ESPO ("Exterior Surface Painting Outreach"), and Steve Powers. [1][2] He lives in New York City. [3][4]
Shepard Fairey was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina.His father, Strait Fairey, is a doctor, and his mother, Charlotte, a realtor. [9] He attended Porter-Gaud School in Charleston and transferred to high school at Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, California, from which he graduated in 1988.
JA began painting graffiti in New York as a teenager, [2] and by 1985 was known for his work on the city's trains. [3] JA One took on his tag in 1986. [4] In response to the MTA's clamp down on train graffiti, initiated under the leadership of David L. Gunn, [5] JA One spearheaded the movement to take graffiti bombing onto the streets. [6]
Graffiti. Children. 1 (with Drena De Niro) Carlos Rodriguez, better known as Mare139, is a New York-based artist born in 1965 in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He was best known as the subway graffiti writer Mare 139, and has since adapted the graffiti lettering styles to metal sculpture in the fine art context, and is recognized as a media ...