Monday 19 September 2011

Graffiti is all about Style...

As more and more youth began getting their tags up, it was necessary to develop a unique style, different sizes and colours that would stand out and distinguish one piece of work from another's work. Vulcan expresses that:

"Style is the most important thing! It defines who you are.
The other boroughs of New York City, also developed their own styles, that could determine to a keen eyed writer where the artist was from in the city.

Wild Style


”Wildstyle” is a form of graffiti composed of complicated interlocking letters, arrows, and embellishment. Like all forms of graffiti art, it is spray painted on walls, trains, and other public surfaces, frequently illegally, and is intended to impose on public visual space, and to challenge viewers’ ideas of who has the right to represent themselves publicly, and what art is. It is created both for, and in defiance of, the audience, which is made up of other writers 1 and both supportive and unsupportive members of the public. The reasons why people write are diverse and ever-evolving. Some motivations cited are resistance and rebellion, fame (literally making a name for oneself), and the desire to create beauty and share art with their community. Most writers fall somewhere on a continuum blending these desires and more. Wildstyle is intentionally hard to decipher.

http://www.hiphop-network.com/articles/graffitiarticles/streetmathwildstyle.asp

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