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Graffiti (singular graffiti or graffito, the latter only used in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Graffiti ranges from simple written "monikers" to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times , with examples dating back ...
The Berlin Wall with graffiti art on the West Berlin side and the "Death Strip" on the East [1] The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 to separate West Berlin and East Berlin during the Cold War. All the differences between the countries made it a perfect place for people to express their opinions, especially on their preferences and dislikes.
An example of a graffiti character by KEOB. The character is seen in a tag (in the O), a throw-up, single drawing in a drain, and sticker. character In the context of graffiti, individual writers may have unique characters they draw which work in the same way as their moniker. [13] crew The MTA crew blockbuster in the Los Angeles River
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Violet Pritchard published English Medieval Graffiti in 1967, the result of research undertaken predominantly in churches in and around Cambridge. [4] The book was the first full-length work in English to be written on church graffiti, and became the key study for scholars and enthusiasts in the following decades.
Reverse graffiti for the Pirate Party in Bayreuth, Germany. 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 ...
The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey was established in 2010 with the aim of undertaking the first large-scale survey of medieval graffiti in the UK. [3] The survey primarily looks at graffiti dating from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Since 2010 a number of other county based surveys have been set up. These include Kent, Suffolk and ...
Handstyle or hand style is a term in graffiti culture denoting the unique handwriting or signature/tag of an artist, also known as a writer. [1] The same way that in typography there are different typefaces or fonts, in graffiti there are different handstyles.