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He is widely considered one of the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1] [2] [3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in Philadelphia, by writing their monikers on walls across the city. [4]
Oxford University Press's art history text Australian Painting 1788–2000 concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary visual culture, including the work of several Australian practitioners. [98] Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris. [99] [100]
Dare (graffiti artist) (1968-2010) real name Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding, was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator Harald Naegeli (born December 4, 1939) – known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s
Brim Fuentes, is the founding member of graffiti crew TATS CRU, and was born in the South Bronx, New York City. Brim was fortunate enough to start writing graffiti in one of the most important periods of graffiti history. He began bombing and hitting New York City Subway trains, in the late 1970s, all the way through to the mid-1980s.
Peter-Ernst Eiffe (1941 - c. December 1982), also known as "Eiffe, der Bär" (German for 'Eiffe, the bear') was probably the first Graffiti artist in Germany. During the German student movement of May 1968, he distributed his messages all over Hamburg and became also known for entering the central station of Hamburg with a Fiat 600.
It was around this time that the established art world started becoming receptive to the graffiti culture for the first time since Hugo Martinez's Razor Gallery in the early 1970s. In 1979, Fab 5 Freddy and his graffiti partner, Lee Quiñones, showed their work in the Galleria La Medusa, in Rome, thereby putting graffiti on the art-world map. [7]
By 1976 Caine 1 was considered king of the 7 line by other New York graffiti artists. [6] Although most of his paintings were executed solo, Caine 1 was a member of The Knight Hawks graffiti crew. [7] In 1976 Glowaski planned and executed, what was regarded as, the first whole train in graffiti history.
A heavily tagged subway car in New York City in 1973. By the mid-1970s, most standards had been set in graffiti writing and culture. The heaviest "bombing" in U.S. history took place in this period, partially because of the economic restraints on New York City, which limited its ability to combat this art form with graffiti removal programs or transit maintenance.