about graffiti by issa izza

/ About Graffiti writen and designed by

/ Issa Izza

/ Graphic style For the graphic style of the book, I decided to recreate the style of the sub way of New York, since that is where graffiti was born, that is why all the titles are made in helvetica and the numbers, are in a small colored circle, just like the stations in New York.

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/ To...

I part from the premise that graffiti is not something you write about, is something you write, or you like, or you see everyday on the streets almost whit out even noticing anymore, because of how normal and spread already is, is something you like you enjoy, or something you hate, or something you live, not something you write about. Honestly I’m not the writer kind of person either, but given the fact that I had to do it, I put all my love and dedication to it, so that it was I want to dedicated this mini book to all of those whose passion in life is graffiti, especially to my friends, who had made live and breath graffiti in my own flesh since I was a very young teenager.

This goes to everyone who s god and religion is color.

Thank for filling this ugly cities whit all your color and imagination.

You are doing and amazing work, please please don’t ever stop.

Whit all the love in my heart.

YORKE (my boyfriend at 15, one of the most know writers in town) MAXONE (cosmic brother, paiting friend, sick stories) APE (my new best friend) OSK DEV ORE YARDI FERKY NASTEE DAOS ZER CHAPARRO (<3) HASE (huge inspiration for me) CEPT OKSO MIMO (intergalatic cat sister of mine) ZOSEN XUPET EZE and especially to you POPE

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/Glossary

tags bomb pieces!!!!!!

/Compendium of graffiti slang/ We will briefly explain the most common expressions use in graffiti slang. I place this glossary in the beginning of the book, (usually they go last), because if you read this first it will really help when we get into deep matter what exactly are we talking about in all time. This is for those who know absolutely nothing about graffiti.

TAG/simple and fast Fast thin and precise lines signature. Is the most simple expression of graffiti, the one it was born whit. It s about leaving your mark where ever you pass. Super fast.White weapon of graffiti.Implies using just color, it can also be done whit markers , not only spray cans.

BOMBS/maximmun coverage- minnimun time / Bombs, are exactly what their name says , meant to be drooped all over town. There are much more especial than tags, because they involved two colors, one for outline, another one for the fill inside. They are made whit fat caps, so they can cover more space in less time, since is an illegal art, , time is a precious thing. It also changes a lot on the shape, this time it has a blown shape, like clouds, or bubbles.

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PIECES/when it went wild Pieces are the maximum expression of graffiti since they were created out of the necessity to express bigger and better art, till the appearance of murals. pieces involved painting a hole wall, lots of space, a pre-designed sketch, is not like bombing than you just create in the act, or tags, that you have your own signature, and is always the same.

Many colors, maybe 3D effect, stretch and elongated typography, backgrounds, fill ins whit textures and much more. Pieces were first born in the metro carts and then brought to the walls,they can be simple style or wild style

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HISTORY AND WORLD WIDE SPREAD!!!!!!

/History and WorldWide Spread/

70s

Cornbread , 1967 / Philladelphia / Cornbread , King of the walls King of the Contrary of what everybody thinks, Graffiti was not borne in New York, but in Philadelphia, in 1967 whit Cornbread. Cornbread was the name he was given on his correctional institution, and he just started writing it all over the place, and heard his name more and more, and people talking about him, so he said, if this happens here, in jail, imagine how it would be on the streets, so as soon as he got out he started painting all over the city, and now they were talking about him, they more they talked, the more he wrote, the more he wrote, they more they talked.

One day because of a mistake whit a short name the newspaper published he died, so when he read that, he decided to give the world a little surprise, so he sneaked in the Zoo at night, and painted all over the place, even on the elephant, not cool at all.

I just hope elefant skin is thick enough to not be affected by spray paint!!!!

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walls

1967

CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE

PAINTED ELEPHANTS PAINTED ZOO Cornbread, King of the walls.

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NEW YORK /1971/ New York

1971

/ The BOOM of graffiti So maybe the first graffiti artist ever, was from and based in Philadelphia, but for sure the city where graffiti became graffiti, was New York, just like it happened whit many other things, like for example, salsa music.

New York by the time, was a very very destroyed city, and people had a need to express themselves against all this ugly ness surrounding their city. Because of how ugly it was, is looked like a place of no law, and people felt free to do as they pleased.

And it was a way to say : “Hey world here I am”, in the middle of all this chaos.

“I take back my city”.

The first tagger of NYC was TAKI 183. In New York, artist used numbers after their names, the number of their street, because like it was an urban movement, a movement about bombing, and conquering the hole town whit your tags, it was important to say where were you from, and how far you went whit your tags.

This TAKI 183 was a delivery boy or a messenger, so he had to be all day traveling around the city and was always whit his marker on his hand, taging all over the city, In his work, he had to go a lot to the east side, which is where press offices were located, he soon appeared on the news papers and his “art” was quickly knew.

And then many people, and crews , kept on painting and tagging the subways and streets of NYC. And some how it became a kind of messenger between neighborhoods, like some body tags first, and then somebody writes back : hey wassup, and like that, and this trains were going all trough the city, from one point to another of gigantic new york, carrying all this colors and pieces, tags , bombs, like a museum on wheels. This artists took something so normal as the subway, and made of it something so extraordinary, a canvas on wheels, that goes from one point to another point of town, they took it and made it their own, this is real art.

Enough whit having to wait to be picked by a guy from a gallery to be an artist, I paint where I want, and what better place for people to see it, than on the streets???!!!

But the city council, and the police thought that all this tags and graffiti in the metro gave the impression that nobody care about anything so everything was allowed, it inspired anarchy, and impunity, it says: If you can get away whit painting, you may get away whit other things too. So they started cleaning the trains, you painted, they cleaned, you painted, they cleaned, you painted , they cleaned, and one day, artist got tired, but graffiti survived on the streets.

Thought the essence of graffiti relays on the tag, or signature, people started getting creative or “wilder”, and this is how the bomb, was born, instead of doing a thin signature whit just letters, you can blow each letter, and is more impact, and instead of that, you can also stretch mix , deform each letter, add different colors, 3D effect, gradients, fills, and all kind of things and details to add “funk and swag” to your letters, this is what you would call a piece, which can be a simple style, or “wild style”.

ONTHENEWS-

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HEY SOLDIER

TAG BOMB PAINT!!

WILDSTYLE

THE GANG

Left top:TAKI 183.

Left center and bottom: NYC subway.

Right: Wild Style.

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80´s

HIP HOP

/ New York

/ Graffiti, one of the four elements of hip hop.

New York in the seventies was a boiling pot of cultural references and the city was in such estate of chaos that it allowed people to create new things, cause there was nothing. The Bronx looked like Berlin after world war two and lots of repressed minorities felt the need to make something that was theirs, that nobody could take form them, this is for example how salsa was born, with the latino emigrants minority, and this is how hip hop was borne in the Afro-American rejected community.

The four elements of hip- hop, are MC, DJ, graffiti and break dance. This were the forms of expression of hip- hop, and it was a beautiful thing, because it was a movement that could be felt or expressed or lived trough very different “disciplines”, so it was an open call to all artist, to be apart of this, with whatever you could bing in to the scene. This actually became a “salvation” for kids on gangs, who changed guns for mychs , and knifes for spray cans, and now the battles where being fought not on the streets, but on the dance floors, which was generally on the streets, because they made “Block - Party”, which was basically bringing the best sound possible out on the streets, and let all the neighborhood enjoy the party.

So the one whit the best sound, or the best track, or the more entertaining master of ceremony, or the better the dancers, or the betters the mastitis , the better the gang!!!

And it the end it was not anymore about competition between gangs, but about the party, the joy, the dancing, the magic !!!!!!!

In the beginning of the eighties, three very important documents were realized, first a documentary made by Tony Silver in collaboration whit Henry Chalfant, called “Style Wars”, a movie that reflected and showed and tell the history of the counter cultural movement of hip fop, and its four variants, graffiti artist, DJ, mc or break dancers.

Then this same Henry Chalfant in collaboration whit Martha Cooper edited a book called Subway Art, which is the bible of graffiti, and then there was also the movie, Beat Street, directed by Stan Lathan about hip hop culture too.

This three documents were responsible of making the movement known worldwide.

After people in other countries started seeing this, they started their own movement, making a revival of graffiti when it was in an age of decay in New York, because of all the laws enforcement.

BREAK DANCE 12

DJ!

mc!

Top:Gaffiti bible,Subway Art..

Bottom : movies and documentarys about hip hop escene.

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FRENCH STYLE FRESH BLEK STENCIL PIONEER!

Top:Blek decided to invade Paris whit rats.

Bottom : his artwork always has a dennounce content.

Invade paris rats

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1981ART WHIT SOCIAL END 1981/ Paris /Blek le RAT

ART FOR DENNOUNCING

rats rats rats

The first guy who started painting in Paris, was Blek le rat, a young French kid who traveled to New York, and when seeing the writers arts on the streets of NYC, got so inspired that when he came back home, he wanted to do the same. At the first instance he tried to paint in the style of what he had seen in New York, but he realized right away that it made not sense, because it did not belong to Paris, and to the architecture of the city, so he started doing stencils, and the first thing he did was invading Paris whit rats, (thing that I did in Caracas, whit cats, way before I knew about this guy, but not whit spray or stencil, but whit posters).

Blek le rat did something very unique and innovative whit graffiti, something so unique it was not seen again till the last decade. The art of stencil.

This way of doing graffiti, involves preparing before going out on the streets, your stencil or mask, which was a graphic sinthesis of an image, (this means, to interpret the image in two colors, absolute contrast, only focusing on the lights and darks areas of the picture ).After you have done the graphic sinthesis of the image, you draw it on to a thick board, or X- ray sheet (like they are made of plastic, they are resistant) , and once drawn, you start cutting out the dark areas, like that when you later spray on it, only the shadows of the image will appear, revealing a shape.

Blek le rat artwork, had a social input on to it, it was not just for being beautiful, when always used themes to denounce poverty in Paris.

The movement of hip hop , because we have to understand that graffiti doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comes alone, graffiti is part oh hip hop, came first to Europe trough music videos, whit break dance, and then soon graffiti came too.After seeing this,kids , especially from poor areas outside Paris, where arab and black kids lived, started painting too, but more in the traditional way, in the american way.

This culture also came to Europe later trough fanzines, and pictures send via mail.

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ART PAINTED ALL OVE

/ Berlin

/ Darkest city at night time, colorfull city at day time

Berlin is sooooo painted, so so so painted, there is not a single door of building , or street level walls the buildings, which are not completely cover in tags.

Is just beautiful, because the city is like a park, is so green , and then you get all this bright colors, and the mix is a fresh combination.

I have a theory, which when discussed whit my Berlin artists friend said I might be right.

Germans are well know in the world for being perfectionist, exacts and methodologist in almost everything they do, so you would imagine that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve be also like that when inforce the law, so you then wonder, how is it possible that there is soooo much graffiti in Berlin. On one side, my friends say, that there are more artists than cops, (big ups for Berlin), and on the other side, I said, is because the city at night gets completely cover by the night, there is almost no lightning in the street, so you could do what ever you want, no body could even see you in the dark.

A very important , and now touristic place for artists in Berlin is Tacheles, which is a place that used to be a squad house, and know each artist has a room of it, and that is were they work and sell their art. Thought artists here are not graffiti artists, the house is painted all all all all all over. A very antique stone almost castle completely cover in tags, the visual sensation is unbelievable, so rich in color , shapes and textures.

ArTISTs pArADISE

ER

Left:a common door in the streets of Berlin.

Right : Tacheles inside Visual exlplossion.

ART ART ART

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NO KIDDING AROUND-

/ 1up

the shit!!

POWER

/ Seroius m....... f ........s Can you believe the size of this pieces???? Wow, my serious respects to this man, thougt 1up, stands for one united power, so it really is lots of people tagging and expressing as one.Nobody really knows who they are or many they are, you have to understand they are highly wanted by the german authorities. They made a movie documentary about their artwork, so if you are intestate you should check it out. They are so bold they paint in plenty day broad in very concurred places, but they are so many and they do it so fast, they can get away whit it.

Top: gigantic piece on the lateral facade of two buildings.He uses roll paints. They cover more area.

Bottom:a subway wagon painted by 1up.

THIS IS PAPPA

KING

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big ups for 1up

Top: hole wagon .

Bottom:more gigantic prooves of how gigantic he is.

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SICOLEDIC QUEEN OF THE WALLS

/ MYMO

/ No one like her ...

This grrrl makes the most power full art ever, this is colors, this is sicodelia, this is sudden explosions, the is closing my ayes and dream. So unique, the color she uses and the way she combines them , those neon, whit the pastels, against the ruff “ugly” colors of the streets, are just the perfect visual juice. It soo fresh, and is a grrrl, and the little faces and little monsters she makes, so <3.

When most of the kids where afraid of monsters I’m sure she was the one hiding in the closet or under the bed to hang out whit the monsters.Powerfull cosmic sister of love you are an absolut inspiration for me.

Her family, is from Tunizia, she was born in Frankfurt and live there for a long time, then Barcelona, then Berlin, and many other places, and currently she is in cape town, painting, you can appreciate her adorable afrikaan dress in the picture below.

Top: mimo looking as cute as can be, infront of a samll mural very recently, during her satyed in Capetown.

Bottom: mimo looking very small in front of her big mural

POWER GRRRL

the hole sky on to THE WALLS ALL

OVER THE WORLD BABY

Top and Bottom:mymo murals.

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FRESH COLOR S PALETTE

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MONSTERS AN

ND COMPANY

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/ London

WORKERS DISGUIZED AS WORKERS

/ Video Surveillance London is the city in the world whit more video surveillance cameras on the street.People in their houses pay a service whit which they are able to see trough a TV channel everything that is happening down on the streets. Pretty f...k up, but this is not the subject here.

So in front of this obstacle, artist had to find a way to make them self invisible to cameras. So they started to do things like interfering whit the urban furniture, dress up as constructors and workers they were able to do it in front of every camera whit out people even realizing. Is a very clear example of how environment affected directly the way art must be performed.

Because of video surveillance cameras, artists in london had to figure out new ways to make street art whit put being punished..

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ALL EYES ON U

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TOWN OF MURALS!!

SUN AND STARS COLORFULL / Barcelona / Painters Paradise

Due to all the abandoned industrial areas in Barcelona, the freedom artist have here to paint is enormous allowing them to express themselves different than in other citys.

To begin whit, the amount of wall they can paint is bigger, this has lead to not stay only in bombing or doing pieces, but they can do murals too.And then and very important,time, since these are abandoned areas, no body really cares, so they can take more time doing their art work.

Barcelona style of graffiti is very abstract and sicodelic when comparing whit classical graffiti, is definitely something absolutely different in graffiti. The fact that the very first spray can brand especially designed for graffiti was born in Barcelona , Montana Colors, sure has a lot to do whit the explosion of colors in bcn style, that, and the very sunny weather almost all trough the year, is a city next to the sea, with beach and sun.

FACTORYS

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ABANDONNED KINGDOMS

!!!!!

The most representing artists of this sicodelic mural style are ZOSEN, KENOR and KODE(cause they paint together), KAFRE, EXTRA, J.LOCA. There are also street artists in bcn who decided to change the simple tag for a symbol, it says much more and has much more meaning, like for example bcn legends as PEZ and XUPET. Street art in bcn had developed in an alternative way than in the rest of the world.

We will extend longer when talking about Barcelona and each one of his artists because this is the city where this document is being done.

Mural whit pieces from zosen, pez and xupet negre.

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INCONS X TAGS

/ ZOSEN

COLORS COLORS COLORS

NAIF SICOLEDIA

Born in 1978 in Buenos Aires , Argentina he now lives and work in Barcelona.

His first approach to the streets was trough skate, and later evolved into graffiti, his punk “Do it yourself” philosophy,(mine too), lead him to start painting in an autodidactic way, and was later when he studied Art and Desing at La Llotja de Barcelona.

He´s been an active member in the graffiti bcn scene since the 90, and he still paints, doing mural, thought now he does more than that, like teaching, illustration, urban art, fashion, video and performance.

His art work has been in exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and north and south America.

Personally, one of my favorites, because of all the happiness and the colors, it has a naif thing to it that I love.

Zosen in action.

BCN STYLE PAPI

Top Left:fashion incurssion by Zosen.

Top right: one out of four mini canvas.

Bottom:mural de Zosen y Kenor.

LIKE LIKE LIKE!!!!!!

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PAINTING BROTHERHOOD!!!!!

/ KENOR AND KODE

FROM SEVILLA

People thinks is just one person who paint this, but they are actually two kids from Seville, who started painting here in Barcelona. They use their painting as catharsis for what going in their lives, and say that is beautiful that art is under they stars and sky, and moon and sun, and not just inside the walls of a museum.

dinamic duo

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BRINGING JOY TO THE NEIGBOURHOOD

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/ KAFRE

MENSAJERO DE LA OSCURIDAD

He was born in Barcelona 1980, currency studding philosophy. He´s also been in the local scene since the 90´s, his work took a much more power full turn when he started incorporating meanings and concepts related to his studies.He also has shown his work all over Europe.

My absolutely favorite, because of how dark and simple, and full of symbols. They way he scarves the wall instead of only painting, gives so much more intensity and expression to his art.

Favorite, favorite, favorite.

Kafre scarving the wall.

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GRAFFITI OF PHYLOSOFI IS NOT THE SAME AS PHILOSOPHY OF GRAFFITI

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MY FAVORITE

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THIS IS A F

M

MASTER TO ME

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smile smiles smile

smilie ffiish acuatic legend

/ PEZ Bcn, 1976, He first started painting in Barcelona in 1999, whit a tag that went evolving from a regular signature to his logotype in shape of a smiling fish and soon he became very well know in the local scene.

Later he started spreading his smily fishes all trough Spain, and then trough Europe, and later even to soth America, and Asia.

He appears on several very important contemporary book about graffiti and movies and documentaries.

I think he acomplex a great level of expression whit just few lines.

bajo del mar

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EL PEZ DE BCN

This caracther has so much expression whit just few lines.

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CHANGING TAGS X ICONS

/ XUPET Bcn, 1970. Last year was his 20 anniversary of painting. 20 painting the same baby suck thing.

Can you believe it?? And he is also a legend.

SEﾃ前R GOL

Xupet is the catalan word for baby soothers.

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2O

G

O ANNIVERSAY

Xupet all over town and in the living of my ex-house.

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hated during ages!!!!

HARTOS DE ARTE HIJOS DE ABUELA ???

/ HDA

New generation of younger painters. Currently they are having a small exhibition at Montana cafe in Barcelona, they also have a really cool blog, and some of them do other stuff like graffiti related cloth design.

STREET LIFE STYLE

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MY DEAR FRIEND ALBER HAPPY ENDING

GRRR

HDA

RT

HDA

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This two pieces are made by one of me dearest friends, APE, and both of the fill ins on both pieces are inpsired in my head colors, the one on the top, is called moonshine..

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LOOKING FOR A JOB

COLORS

/ MONTANA COLORS CATALAN PRODCUT / Worlsd first graffiti spray manufacturers You can´t talk about graffiti, whit out talking about Montana Colors, which is the first brand in the world specialized in creating spray cans especially designed for graffiti and it was proudly borne in Bcn in 1994.

This Happens when Felton paintings worker, Jordi Rubio realized that there a was certain store which always runned out of spray paint cans way faster than any other store he distributed painting, and when noticing that, he realized that one of the guys working in that store was a graffiti writer, Moockie and all his friends who share this enthusiasm came into his store to buy their material.

Jordi, when noticing and increasing demand in this product because of this phenomenon of graffiti, propose to Feldon to create and specialized line for graffiti art, Feldon industries, seeing graffiti as something vandalic got read of the idea right away, and Jordi, absolutely convinced of the geniality of his idea quite Feldon and started a factory of his own whit is ex co -worker Miquel Galea, who also decided to quite, joined forces whit him and Moockie and Kapi and founded Montana Colors.

The idea was clear, to create a product that was the dream and cover all the needs of a writer, precision, covering, colors and asequible prices.They first launched a line ox 60 colors in a 200 ml can. It was first sold in a store called “Game over” and then, “Bunker” and when the voice spread all trough Europe, people started coming from Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland started coming and going back homes whit vans full of spray cans.

The small factory destinated to distribute for local stores had to get quickly organized in order to affront the big demand, and so it did. By 95, they ´v created a bigger envase, 400 ml, and the distribution in Europe was already established.

MONTANA

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WORLDS FIRST GRA

CANT TALK BOUT GRAFFITI WHIT OUT TALKING ABOUT MONTANA

HARTOS DE ARTE

AFFITI BRAND

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dreams factory

NO PAIN NO GAIN PIXADORES / SAO PAOLO Pixação is a very unique kind of writing born in the 80´s in Sao Paolo , Brazil, tough there has been graffiti since the 60´s in Brazil, before they all were against the military dictatorship there was in the country.

Pixação is very different and unique because of two main reasons, first the because of the typography style, slim and elongated, and then because its always performed in quite un asequible and high places , like last floors of buildings.

Because of how much poverty and violence, and social problems in the city, the police is too busy to mind too much about graffiti, is consider a small damage for society.

Pixadores, usually come from a very low in - come sector of society and is a way for them to express their discontent and their feelings of exclusion. It is also a very dangerous style of painting since they have no kind of protection when climbing so so high on the buildings, sometimes doing human towers, and almost every time risking their lives.

Artist like world wide know Os Gemeos, where inspired in Pixação.

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A

IS NOT ABOUT THE TAG IS ABOUT THE HIGHT

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i cant take

i need to sleep

e it anymore

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magic twins DO BRAZIL

/ OS GEMEOS

Os gemeos, is portuguese for twins, because in fact, they are twins, born in 1974, they v been painting since 1987.When they first started painting they did it in the traditional American way, but later on they evolved in to a different style incorporating elements of brazilian culture and helping to developed and define Brazil own style.

More than 20 years painting, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had travel around the world spreading their art, which you can find in places like Portugal and Berlin.

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pixacao inspired

PRA L MUNDO

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im in such fucking pain

right now

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PM

/ CARACAS

CCS

Q PASO LACRA

/ my home town Graffiti has existed in Caracas since the 80´s, given that Venezuela is a country that has always consumed american culture, they knew what was going on in the USA. But at the beginning there were only a few, there was a crew called RA, but that was not really of my generation since I was borne in the 86 only. By the time I was around ten or eleven, I remember seeing everywhere tags from a guy called ore, which is like the gran daddy of graffiti in Venezuela, nowadays he lives here in Barcelona and is a tattoo artist, profession that many graffiti artist has later persuade as their “pay the rent” job. And very soon, I started reading HASE and JASP, everywhere, everywhere, nobody really knows much about JASP today, I think, the legend says that he was pretty insane and had to escape from the country or something like, but HASE, he did it right, he kept and still paint, he lived Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and is currently living in New York, he is a graphic designer, also another very popular “pay the rent job” among street artist, he is also a plastic artist and has hold several exhibitions in Europe and America.

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Q PASO CHAMO

OPA PAPA

/ new voices

And then it seamed like it was a couples thing, YARDI AND YORKE, tagging and painting the city all over town, and all of their friends, like FERKY, PORKY, OKSO, whit his cute little cows, and then there was the bad guys, CMS crew, whit RAYONE, and the fights, and all the typical things around graffiti. Then a younger generation came, DAOS and ZER, many times joined by NASTEE, prrrr my dogies, they were so bold and dare whit the places they tagged, so young and careless, it was like everytime I went out of my house I discovered a knew recent piece or tags, or bombs, in the most dangerous places you could imagine. And you have to remember that Caracas is the real guetto, nowadays most dangerous and violent city in the world, and all of this little “mom and daddy” white kids, that you could easily recognize they were not from the “guetto” were really playing whit fire every night they went out to paint. And not only you have to watch out for the bad guys, you also have to watch out for the police, and the police is even worst than the bad guys, cause the polices were no more than bad guys in uniform, which is even worst. If the police catches you doing something illegal, they can play as they please, take all of your money, ipod, phones, watches, you name it, if it has value, they’ll keep it, they would spray paint you all over and your sketch books, ruinning all your portfolio, they can get to physical violence , hit you whit the cans, anything but give you your right fine or jail time. So just imagine the panorama.

On this younger generation there is a couple of names which I cant miss, those are mister CEPT and mister OSK, both of them have a very particular style that clearly separates them form others in style.

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PARAISO SIN LEY

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Q PASO MARIKO

MISTER WOLF

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MIAUUUU

/ HASE This guy is definitely my favorite from the venezuelan ones, and has always been my favorite, this wont be the first time I talk about him a school assignment.

SANTA PATINETA SANTA SALSA SANTA LATA (D SPRAY)

Why I love most about him is they way he plays whit religious images, I really really have a thing for religious kitsch imaginary, so is something I feel quite related, and this line, his colors, his style, it just feels right to me. He has something that reminds of vintage horror movie posters.

And a hint of darkness.

Born in Caracas Venezuela, 1980, he studied graphic design in PRODISEﾃ前, currently lives in New York, and sells hotdogs and paintings,we talked about him before.

CCS

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NYC BCN

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SECRET ART / THE UNCONSCIOUS ART OF COVERING GRAFFITI I think this solutions are absolutely crazy and nonsense, why painting whit a â&#x20AC;&#x153;running dogâ&#x20AC;? color on top of a piece of art that somebody did whit love???

But... at the end, if you have the sensibility to appreciate it, there is a certain beauty to it, for sure. It is a little like Rothko.

FIX ??

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GRL

/ GRAFFITI AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Graffiti Research Lab, G.R.L, is an innovating small crew in the world of graffiti, since they first were NASA scientists, who got bored of working for useless things, and decided to give their knowledge to art and humanity.

They invented something called the Eye writer, cause they had a friend sick, paralyzed in bed, who could only move his eyes, and so he could kept on painting they invented a aparat for that.

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EYE WRITER

LASER TA

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/ LETS SAVE THE WORLD WHIT COLORS ///

PM AY

NO

COLOR COLOR

In conclusion, I can say, that no matter for what reasons they do it, if it is for political protest, expressing your self, proving your brave ness, graffiti is always an action of “fixing” what you don’t like about this world.

I personally don’t like how gray this world is, and boring, and straight, and I think this people bring a lot of joy and happiness to the urban environment whit their art.

Even if it is just a tag, is color, color, COLOR.

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TOOTH PAIN IS THE WORST PAIN EVER

/ link-graphy /video-graphy

/ This should be the bybliography, but since I´v done all my research online, here are all the cool links you can check out to find it some more about graffiti!!! /Videos: 1up Movie Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3X_eZC9VA4 1up Movie Watch online

http://www.spraycine.com/foro/index.php?topic=998.0 Graffiti movies and docs http://www.spraycine.com/ Bomb it (documentary) http://documentaryheaven.com/bomb-it/ Street Beat (movie) http://www.cinetube.es/peliculas/drama/ver-pelicula-beat-street.html Style Wars (documentary) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/style-wars/ Brief history of graffiti narrated by Zosen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36rvEMom9HU&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_pTl7WLuk&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkec2XXFgc&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmXrkRjyZCc&feature=youtu.be /Books, pictures and others: Subway Art ( first book about graffiti ) http://issuu.com/callumbarrack/docs/style_wars World wide graffiti forum and archive

http://www.12ozprophet.com/ The rest of the visual material of this work has been dowloaded from different webs trought google search, and I took a lot of pictures from facebooks from friends.

This is a school homework, and there is no profit or financial gain Im makin out of this.

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