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The Freedom Train was a graffiti mural painted on a New York City Subway train of R36s on July 3, 1976. The artwork was intended to commemorate the United States Bicentennial , but it was prevented from being seen in public by the New York City Transit Authority who removed the train from public service. [ 1 ]
In 1982 the New York graffiti writer Midg produced the Caine 1 Free for Eternity top-to-bottom whole car, an image of which was later used as an epitaph in the book Subway Art. [23] [24] In 2010 the memorial was reimagined using a Shakespearean quote and painted as a mural as part of the Subway Art History Project. [25]
In 2010 Moses and Taps attracted widespread attention when they created a mock door on the window of an Hanover S-Bahn train. [8] The following year the collective produced an artwork in which 76 dollar bills were affixed to a Hamburg S-Bahn train spelling out the word ‘sellout’ as a critique of the commercialisation of urban art. [9]
The title is a reference to the New York City Subway, where much of the city's graffiti was painted during the late 20th century, on the sides of subway cars.. This was done without permission of the transit authority and considered as vandalism in the time the two were taking pictures of the art on passing trains.
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]
The Clean Train Movement, wherein the rolling stock was either cleaned or outright replaced, started in 1985, with the last graffiti-covered train out of service by 1989. [2] [3] [12] With subway trains being increasingly inaccessible, other property became the targets of graffiti. Rooftops became the new billboards for some 1980s-era writers. [12]
Monikers (also known as streaks, tags, or hobo art) are a type of graffiti done on the side of a freight car on freight trains. They date back to the late 1800s. [ 1 ] Monikers are usually produced with a solid paint stick, industrial crayon, or a lumber crayon.
By 1976, Lee was creating huge murals of graffiti art across the subway system. As a subway graffiti artist, Lee almost exclusively painted whole cars, all together about 125 cars. He was the major contributor to one of the first-ever whole-trains, along with DOC, MONO and SLAVE, the core members of The Fabulous Five crew, which also included ...