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1UP (One United Power) is a graffiti crew from Berlin, Kreuzberg. [1] They have been active since 2003. [2]1UP have been described as "one of the most well-known graffiti crews in the world" [3] and are known for their bombing (large amount of tags put up in one night), rooftop paintings, and wholecar, wholetrains .
Gastman is the curator and producer of Beyond The Streets, a traveling large-scale exhibition of street art and graffiti.The first Beyond the Streets exhibition was held in 2018 in downtown Los Angeles, CA, [12] which spanned over 40,000 square feet and featured over 100 artists.
Characters are "creatures or personas” that feature in graffiti works. [2] They may be taken from popular culture (especially cartoons and comic books) or created by the writer as a signature character. [3] Chararacters are found in almost all forms of graffiti, including ancient graffiti and the earliest forms of modern graffiti. [4]
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.
Reverse graffiti [note 1] is a method of creating temporary or semi-permanent images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface. It can also be done by simply removing dirt with the fingertip from windows or other dirty surfaces, such as writing "wash me" on a dirty vehicle.
The graffiti is on the Palestinian side of the wall and primarily expresses anti-wall sentiments. [3] The graffiti, written in both English and Arabic, includes "flags and fists, slogans and insults, statements of pain and loss", serving as a "visual testimony" to the suffering of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. [6]
Roman graffiti also often contained sexual innuendos. Archaeologists can use the amount of graffiti in an area to determine the level of social interaction which took place there; since it often conveys the thoughts and name of the graffitist, it can help identify the people who were in the locations, and their ideas and actions.
Apexer was born in San Francisco, California in 1978. He is a third generation San Franciscan. He is Latino and African-American. [2]Apexer studied classical art techniques, architecture, graphic design, and art history while trying to develop his own artistic identity.