"Graffiti Graffiti (both singular and plural; the singular ""graffito"" is very rare in English except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and it has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire. In modern times, paint (particularly spray paint) and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials. In most countries, marking or painting property without the property owner's permission is considered defacement and vandalism,"
"graffiti were carved on walls with a sharp object, although sometimes chalk or coal were used. The word originates from Greek —""graphein""—meaning ""to write"". The term ""graffiti"" referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, and such, found on the walls of ancient sepulchres or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii. Use of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism. The only known source of the Safaitic language, a form of proto-Arabic, is from graffiti: inscriptions scratched on to the surface of rocks and boulders in the predominantly"
"Graffito (archaeology) A graffito (plural ""graffiti""), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall. The marks may form an image or writing. The term is not usually used of the engraved decoration on small objects such as bones, which make up a large part of the Art of the Upper Paleolithic, but might be used of the engraved images, usually of animals, that are commonly found in caves, though much less well known than the cave paintings of the same period; often the two are found in"
"Sgraffito Sgraffito (; plural: ""sgraffiti""; sometimes spelled scraffito) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer. The Italian past participle ""sgraffiato"" is also used, especially of pottery. ""Sgraffito"" and ""Sgraffiti"" derive from the Italian word ""graffiare"" (""to scratch""), ultimately from the Greek (""gráphein"", ""to write""). Related terms include graffito and graffiti. Sgraffito on walls"
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"Roman graffiti In archaeological terms, graffiti (plural of graffito) is a mark, image or writing scratched or engraved into a surface. There have been numerous examples found on sites of the Roman Empire, including taverns and houses, as well as on pottery of the time. In many cases the graffiti tend toward the rude, with a line etched into the basilica in Pompeii reading ""Lucilla made money from her body,"" phallic images, as well as erotic pictures. Studying the graffiti left behind from the Roman Period can give a better understanding of the daily life and attitudes of the Roman"
"Scribing (graffiti) Scribing, also known as scratchitti, is a style or method of graffiti in which a scribe is used to tag on glass or plastic surfaces. There are two popular types of scribes. The first is the arrowhead scribe, held between the thumb and index finger, used for quick connectible-style tags on glass. The second is the pen scribe, usually used for more detailed tagging. Scribing can be loud, especially when doing connectibles on glass. Scribing differs from normal graffiti since scribing is almost impossible to remove. However, one strategy for ""removal"" is to make many more scratches on"
"Graffiti in the United States Graffiti in the United States are writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti, consisting of the defacement of public spaces and buildings, remains a nuisance issue for cities. It also has had an international influence especially from the examples in the New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago metro areas. In America around the late 1960s, graffiti was used as a form of expression by political activists, and also by gangs such as the"
"Calligraffiti Calligraffiti is an art form that combines calligraphy, typography, and graffiti. It can be classified as either abstract expressionism or abstract vandalism. It is defined as a visual art that integrates letters into compositions that attempt to communicate a broader message through writing that has been aesthetically altered to move beyond the literal meaning. Simply put, it is the conscious effort of making a word or group of words into a visual composition. As such it is meant to be both an aesthetic experience and provocative art—mixing tradition and precision with modern unbridled self-expression. The origins of the term,"
"Carolina Falkholt Carolina Alexandra Falkholt, with the pseudonym Blue, born March 4, 1977 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish artist, graffiti writer and musician. Sometimes she uses her own coined term ""grafitta"", to describe her art. It is a play with the two words ""graffiti"" and ""fitta"", the latter means ""pussy"" in Swedish but also with a Swedish grammatical habit of setting a gender to work titles where an ""a"" denotes female role. Carolina Falkholt grew up in Dals Långed, Dalsland, Sweden. As a teenager, she moved to Stockholm to go to the waldorf school Kristofferskolan. At the same time she"
"Bambi Graffiti Bambi is the pseudonym of a contemporary British street artist. She works focuses on contemporary female identity and its relationship to patriarchal culture. She also highlights political and social injustice. “Bambi” is derived from the childhood family nickname “Bambino” and is a popular artist within the showbusiness world. Collectors of her work include Rihanna, Brad Pitt, Adele, Robbie Williams, and Take That’s Mark Owen. Bambi’s stencilled work is described as gritty and masculine in appearance while exploring themes of feminism, and popular and street culture. Bambi is recognised for her stencilled graffiti and has created various works across"
"top of the existing tag. Scribing (graffiti) Scribing, also known as scratchitti, is a style or method of graffiti in which a scribe is used to tag on glass or plastic surfaces. There are two popular types of scribes. The first is the arrowhead scribe, held between the thumb and index finger, used for quick connectible-style tags on glass. The second is the pen scribe, usually used for more detailed tagging. Scribing can be loud, especially when doing connectibles on glass. Scribing differs from normal graffiti since scribing is almost impossible to remove. However, one strategy for ""removal"" is to"
"graffiti in the 1980s, his fight for against time, his spirit and humor and his art which consists of large colorful cutout wooden letters spelling ZUSA, an acronym for ""Zusammen"" meaning together in German. The movie premiered on 17 January 2015 in ""Grand Teatret"" in Copenhagen Tao Nørager Tao Nørager (born 18 April 1974) is a Danish Film director specializing in documentaries. Nørager grew up in the Danish town Virum with his mother, a free lance creative director and graphics designer for the advertising industry, and his farther ""CASPER"", a record producer for Polydor Records. At a young age he"
"une Histoire en Images"" by Bernard Fontaine, Eyrolles, Paris, France, 2011; ""Classic Hits: New York Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers"" by Alan Fleisher & Paul Lovino, Dokument Press, Sweden, 2012. In the Smithsonian's ""Archives of American Art Journal"", ""Bohemians, 2010,"" Vol. 49, Nos. 3–4, pages 40–49, the New York regional collections specialist Charles H. Duncan referred to Stewart as ""Graffiti's Vasari."" Jack Stewart (artist) Jack Stewart (January 27, 1926 – March 4, 2005) was an American artist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he began private art lessons when he was seven. When he was about nine he went to classes at the"
"are decorated with commissioned graffiti-style artwork, and in many others patrons are welcome to leave their own. There is still, however, a fine line between vandalism as an artform, as a political statement, and as a crime. Bristol-born guerrilla artist Banksy is an example: when councils have removed his works, they have been met by public outrage. Banksy's claim is that official vandalism is far worse than that perpetrated by individuals, and that he is decorating buildings of no architectural merit whatsoever. According to Susan A. Phillips (2016), an idea originally refer from the Greek word ""graphien"" (to write), graffiti"
"art of calligraphy.” Calligraffiti is a complex process. Its specificity is in its paradoxical nature, as it is characterised by and composed of many elements that appear contradictory: It requires an overall vision from the artist- from the message he is trying to convey, to the shape of the letters, to the larger picture he is creating. Calligraffiti artist, Tubs, explains that the art form's graffiti component forces the artist to reflect upon and consciously create a piece that will arouse a specific feeling or reaction in the viewer. However, the use of the alphabet as an artistic medium demands"
"the same caves. In archaeology, the term may or may not include the more common modern sense of an ""unauthorized"" addition to a building or monument. Sgraffito, a decorative technique of partially scratching off a top layer of plaster or some other material to reveal a differently colored material beneath, is also sometimes known as ""graffito"". Basic categories of graffiti in archaeology are: Modern knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt was originally derived from inscriptions, literature, (Books of the Dead), pharaonic historical records, and reliefs, from temple statements, from and numerous individual objects whether pharaonic or for the Egyptian"
"Graffiti (Palm OS) Graffiti is an essentially single-stroke shorthand handwriting recognition system used in PDAs based on the Palm OS. Graffiti was originally written by Palm, Inc. as the recognition system for GEOS-based devices such as HP's OmniGo 100 and 120 or the Magic Cap-line and was available as an alternate recognition system for the Apple Newton MessagePad, when NewtonOS 1.0 could not recognize handwriting very well. Graffiti also runs on the Windows Mobile platform, where it is called ""Block Recognizer"", and on the Symbian UIQ platform as the default recognizer and was available for Casio's Zoomer PDA. The software"
"""calligraffiti"" are unclear. The Dutch artist Niels Shoe Meulman is often incorrectly credited with coining the term in 2007, when he used it as the title of his solo exhibition. Muelman describes calligraffiti as ""traditional handwriting with a metropolitan attitude"" and a ""way of translating the art of the street to the interior of museums, galleries and apartments."" In an interview he explains the technique itself as ""directness in the whole, finesse in the details. An even balance between seeing and reading word and image. … letters, writing and language itself becomes an image or abstraction. On the other hand,"
"as a synonym for ""drawing"" (such as ""Yahoo! Graffiti"", ""Graffiti"", etc.). Marc Ecko, an urban clothing designer, has been an advocate of graffiti as an art form during this period, stating that ""Graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history and has been a driving inspiration throughout my career."" Henry Chalfant is one of the foremost advocates of modern graffiti, having produced the documentary film Style Wars and co-authored the books ""Subway Art"" and ""Spray Can Art"". His most recent work, ""Henry Chalfant's Graffiti Archive: New York City's Subway Art and Artists"" displays his over 800"
"a 70% graphite rough concentrate. Leaching this concentrate with hydrochloric acid gives a 95% graphite product with a flake size ranging from 10 mesh down. Graphite Graphite (), archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure. It occurs naturally in this form and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Under high pressures and temperatures it converts to diamond. Graphite is used in pencils and lubricants. Its high conductivity makes it useful in electrodes. The principal types of natural graphite, each occurring in different"
"Graffiti"" in 1974. By late 1978 the two were using spray paint to quickly get up larger phrases. ""We would take turns coming up with the sayings"" said Al Diaz. Many of these retained the same ideas as the comic strip SAMO of high school: But they also used it to make critical comments towards the art scene in SoHo and college students comfortably studying in art schools: Some of the comments seemed to look critically at consumer society as a whole: One biographer noted that ""while some of the phrases might seem political, none of them were simple propaganda"
"with an image of Andy Warhol. Blek le Rat Blek le Rat (; born Xavier Prou, 1952) is a French graffiti artist. He was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and has been described as the ""Father of stencil graffiti"". Xavier Prou was born on 15 November 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt in the western suburbs of Paris. Blek began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the walls of Paris streets. He described the rat as ""the only free animal in the city"", and one which ""spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art"". His name originates"
"of the new stencil graffiti genre. Some of the first examples were created in 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris, in 1982 by Jef Aerosol in Tours (France); by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney, and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis. People often leave their traces in wet cement or concrete. This type of graffito often commemorates the mutual commitment of a couple, or simply records a person's presence at a particular moment. Often this type of graffito is dated and"
"as this era's pioneer of the technique, for example his work at the 1892 St Mary's Church, Sunbury, Surrey. Sumner's work is sgraffito ""per se"", scratched plaster, but the term has come to encompass a variety of techniques for producing exterior graphic decoration. Other examples include: Sgraffito Sgraffito (; plural: ""sgraffiti""; sometimes spelled scraffito) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so"
"Eternity (graffito) The word Eternity was a graffito tag recorded over an approximate 35-year period from 1932 to 1967, written numerous times in chalk in the streets of Sydney, Australia. The word had been written by Arthur Stace, an illiterate former soldier, petty criminal and alcoholic who became a devout Christian in the late 1940s. For years after his conversion up until his death in the 1960s, Stace walked the streets of Sydney at night writing the single word ""Eternity"" on walls and footpaths in his unmistakable copperplate handwriting. Stace's identity remained unknown until it was finally revealed in a"
"Grafedia Grafedia is a type of graffiti, where hyperlinked text is written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content including images, video, and sound files. Grafedia can be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or on the street. Grafedia written on public buildings and structures is likely to be illegal and considered vandalism. Viewers 'click' on these Grafedia hyperlinks with their mobile phones by sending a message addressed to the word + ""@grafedia.net"" to get the content behind the link. The project was created in 2005 by John Geraci, who also created"
"limousine and as he gets off the car as a camera guy follows him through the streets. It ends with him going to the parking area, and riding off on a horse he used in the NHK drama ""Fūrin Kazan"" and regularly uses at Joetsu city's Great Kenshin Festival. All songs composed and arranged by Ryo, all lyrics by Shoko Fujibayashi Graffiti (Gackt song) ""Graffiti"" is the fortieth single of Japanese solo artist Gackt, released on November 30, 2011. It's the third opening song of the anime Sket Dance. Gackt announced that he will continue his collaboration with the anime"
"mounted by prestigious art museums and galleries have mounted exhibitions dedicated to street art and calligraffiti. These include: ""Recurring exhibitions"" Calligraffiti Calligraffiti is an art form that combines calligraphy, typography, and graffiti. It can be classified as either abstract expressionism or abstract vandalism. It is defined as a visual art that integrates letters into compositions that attempt to communicate a broader message through writing that has been aesthetically altered to move beyond the literal meaning. Simply put, it is the conscious effort of making a word or group of words into a visual composition. As such it is meant to"
"graffiti'd with words. This allows the audience to look at the ""language itself"" rather than ""the objects and meanings it refers to."". The lack of language becomes essential to Wilson's work as well. In the same way an artist uses positive and negative space, Wilson uses noise and silence. In working on a production of ""King Lear"", Wilson inadvertently describes his necessity of silence: The way actors are trained here is wrong. All they think about is interpreting a text. They worry about how to speak words and know nothing about their bodies. You see that by the way they"
"the name ""graphite"" (""writing stone"") in 1789. He attempted to clear up the confusion between molybdena, plumbago and black lead after Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1778 proved that there are at least three different minerals. Scheele's analysis showed that the chemical compounds molybdenum sulfide (molybdenite), lead(II) sulfide (galena) and graphite were three different soft black minerals. Natural graphite is mostly used for refractories, batteries, steelmaking, expanded graphite, brake linings, foundry facings and lubricants. The use of graphite as a refractory material began before 1900 with the graphite crucible used to hold molten metal; this is now a minor part of"
"the aim of undertaking the first large-scale survey of medieval graffiti in the UK. 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 Surrey. The examples below are from Saint Nicholas, the parish church of Blakeney. Graffito (archaeology) A graffito (plural ""graffiti""), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall. The marks may form an image or writing. The term is not usually used of"
"for graffiti artists. Yarnbombing is another recent form of graffiti. Yarnbombers occasionally target previous graffiti for modification, which had been avoided among the majority of graffiti artists. Some of the most common styles of graffiti have their own names. A tag is the most basic writing of an artist's name; it is simply a handstyle. A graffiti writer's tag is his or her personalized signature. Tagging is often the example given when opponents of graffiti refer to any acts of handstyle graffiti writing (it is by far the most common form of graffiti). Tags can contain subtle and sometimes cryptic"