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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.
In 1972, he began creating graffiti, tagging under the names, "ESQ" and "Phantom 1." Graffiti was an early practice in artistic development. He said, "I kept practicing and eventually I got better at handling letter form." [4] His graffiti career ended in the early 1980s. [5] Flier for a rap battle in the Bronx designed by Buddy Esquire
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 artist for his creation of graffiti-art-related websites.
Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa , especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. [42] Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially.
Klark Kent (born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) is a graffiti artist and music producer. Klark Kent has been writing graffiti since 1989, and has gained international credit for his work over the years.
While in the United States Hoete decided to pay homage to New Zealand basketball player Steve Adams and traveled to Oklahoma City where he was able to create a mural near the stadium where Adams plays. [3] In New Zealand his murals include that of film maker Merata Mita in Rotorua and of his father on Motiti Island. [4] [5]
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Stencil graffiti is a form of graffiti that makes use of stencils made out of paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint.