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Graffiti started to grow
Around the 70's graffiti started to become popular when people began tagging.
Tagging was all over the place and some of the tags are still known today. -
Taki 183 became famous
Taki was a particularly active tagger in New York. He appeared in the New York Times and became well known for his tagging. -
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Throw ups became popular.
Throw ups are simple pieces, written with only a few colors in an artistic way. -
Mayor of NYC declared war against graffiti.
This is known as The Buff - an attempt to clear the city of graffiti, once and for all. The laws against graffiti increased. -
Murals appeared
In the late 70's, it became popular for writers to fill out a whole wall with their works. -
Crews competed against each other to become King
Groups of people helping each other, competed against other groups by doing murals as good as possible, sometimes by doing a "married couple" - a piece across two train cars -
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Rough times for writers
Because of The Buff it became difficult for writers to find places where they could paint and write. -
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Toys ruined old work
As graffiti became more popular, the newer artists, the "toys", started writing across old writers' pieces
