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graffiti

Inscriptions or drawings carved, scratched, or drawn on public surfaces, such as walls, fences, or public-transport vehicles. Graffiti art rose out of the urban street culture of New York in the 1970s, and was later assimilated into commercial art forms.

Tagging is the act of writing an individual logo on surfaces with spray paint or large felt-tip pens.

The term graffiti is derived from a traditional technique in Italian art (sgraffito) of scratching a design in the thin white plaster on a wall.



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In quantity and in the hands of a crowd of graffitists, they can transform the lower reaches of a dull building--for at least the life of the batteries.
Gallery), while Village versions of the big-time neo-expressionists showed alongside the graffitists and folk primitivists at Gracie Mansion, FUN, and Civilian Warfare.
Graffitists take a certain amount of pride in their work, he says, so they will stay away from buildings where their creations are erased quickly and thoroughly.
 
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