2. Modern graffiti began
in Philadelphia, in the
1960s.Shortly after the
death of the jazz
player Charlie Parker
(nicknamed "Yardbird"
or "Bird")
3. Around 1970-71 the
center of graffiti culture
shifted from Philadelphia
to NewYork City, around
Washington Heights,
where writers such as
TAKI 183 andTracy 168
started to gain media
attention.Using a naming
convention in which they
would add their street
number to their
nickname, they
"bombed" a train with
their work, letting the
subway take it
throughout the city.
4. Artists have challenged art by situating it in
non-art contexts. Street artists do not aspire
to change the definition of an artwork, but
rather to question the existing environment
with its own language.
5. Criminal Damage
Cost of clean up
Makes an area look
intimidating
Personal hurt and upset
Pic Right is theVietnam
war memorial
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11. AndyWarhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel
Basquiat….
But is it the new pop art?
Yes Street art is accessible and rejects the
high brown
But AndyWarhol and Lichtenstein celebrated
modernity where as Banksy seems to despise
it.
