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Foundation
The term was first used because of the discovery of some inscriptions stretched into the walls of the city of Pompeii. -
Modern graffiti
Modern graffiti appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s. Darryl McCray (Cornbread) is widely regarded as the father of modern day graffiti. The story tells that Cornbread fell in love with a girl named Cynthia Custuss and started to write Cornbread Loves Cynthia to get her attention. -
Modern graffiti
By the late sixties graffiti reached New York. The new art form took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or tags, on buildings all over the city. In the mid seventies it was hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings. Writers started using highlights and shadows on their lettering to create three-dimensional effects on their pieces. -
Modern graffiti
It was much more difficult to draw graffiti in subway trains, so they started to draw on roofs and canvases. Graffiti became associated with the culture of hip hop. -
Modern Graffiti
Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant published Subway Art -
Modern Graffiti
Henry Chalfant with James Prigoff went on to publish Spray Can Art -
Modern graffiti
In the early 1990s, New York was suffering from a rampant crime wave. murders, burglaries, drug deals, grand theft auto and gang violence consumed the city, making it an unsafe and unpleasant place to live. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ordered to clean the graffitis on the subway system. -
Modern Graffiti
The Israeli West Bank barrier becomes a popular hall of fame for many street artists, including Banksy. Mass production of art products and access to the internet to see pictures all over the world, new styles and techniques began to evolve very quickly. Many artists from around the world return the graffiti to the subways and not so much on the street. -
Modern Graffiti
Bansky starts to get known and changes the perception of graffiti. -
Modern Graffiti
Many people in Europe started pulling the emergency brake of the trains while they were in service so that they had time to paint on them.