Sunday 30 October 2011

3.Graffiti/ street art


  • Beginning as cave paintings graffiti has always been around, it's just the medium that has changed.









  • Street art as we know it today really began in 1970's New York, started as way of marking gang territory.





  • Influence of graffiti can be seen in artists work today with John Heckner and Keith Haring





  • Successful Contemporary graffiti artists have moved away from the 1970's tagging style to be more creative with how their art interacts with the environment and what it stands for.


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