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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]
Banksy, active since the 1990s, is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director whose real identity is unknown. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.
In 2008, Blu accepted an invitation from the Deitch Gallery in New York to paint the exterior of their Long Island location. After being invited by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to paint the exterior wall of the museum for its "Art in the Street" exhibition, its director Jeffrey Deitch ordered the resulting mural to be whitewashed the day after it was finished, probably due to ...
DOME (real name: Christian Krämer) – street art, murals, urban art El Bocho (Berlin) – street art Boris Hoppek (born 1970, in Kreuztal; also known as "Forty") – contemporary artist based in Barcelona ; artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art
An individual who takes photographs of graffiti. The term originated in New York when graffiti writers and non-graffiti writers would sit on benches at train stations waiting for the trains to go by to take pictures and admire graffiti. black book [needs copy edit] A graffiti artist's sketchbook, which is also
Sketchbook and pencil. "Sketchbook of English Landscape and Coastal Scenery," by the artist William Trost Richards, at the Brooklyn Museum. A sketchbook is a book or pad with blank pages for sketching and is frequently used by artists for drawing or painting as a part of their creative process. Some also use sketchbooks as a sort of blueprint ...
Michael Christopher Tracy (February 14, 1958 – September 3, 2023), [1] known as Tracy 168, was an American graffiti artist. He pioneered the art form known as wildstyle . Tracy 168 came to be known as one of the most influential graffiti and street artists of all time, as variations of wildstyle writing spread around the world. [ 2 ]
Fujita blends Eastern techniques (anime, partitioned screens, ukiyo-e), and elements (geishas, warriors, demons), with Western, urban imagery (Latino graffiti, U.S. pop culture imagery) in a way that is stunning and vibrant, yet harmonious. [3] His works embody the cultural and class contradictions that are an integral part of urban Los Angeles ...