Self expression comes in many shapes, forms and sizes and graffiti art is no exception. It is a voice, a message, a statement and a call for attention, for whatever reason and many young people are drawn to it, maybe because they feel they are otherwise not being heard Before embarking on Graffiti Painting, one [...]
Graffiti Art takes to the gutters. We’ve never seen them look so clean! A new expression of street art has come to the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, nicknamed Storm Drain graffiti. Artists are using their talents to decorate the storm drains in a variety of ways. Leonardo Delafuente and Anderson Augusto, known as 6emeia, [...]
What has Graffiti to do with Marx? Read on to find out … Karl Marx has this theory of social alienation that proposes the idea that in a capitalist system – much like the 24-hour consumer fest we Americans find ourselves bogged down in – the lower rungs of the class-war ladder are pressured into [...]
In this article, we’ll take graffiti art to mean wall art drawn with spray cans in public places. This is necessary to avoid confusion, for graffiti art can also be taken to mean an act of vandalism in a very general sense. But when I was taking a closer look at the origins of graffiti [...]
