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Graffiti

#Graffiti and unauthorised signage #Art genres #Painting techniques #Writing #Italian loanwords

1 In China, graffiti began with ________ in the 1920s who used revolutionary slogans and paintings in public places to galvanise the country's communist revolution.

2 The earliest forms of graffiti date back to 30,000 BCE in the form of prehistoric ________ and pictographs using tools such as animal bones and pigments[3].

3 ________ hired artists to use reverse graffiti (the use of high pressure hoses to clean dirty surfaces in order to leave a clean image in the surrounding dirt) to increase awareness of their product.

4 [28] Hollywood also paid attention, consulting writers like PHASE 2 as it depicted the culture and gave it international exposure in movies like ________ (Orion, 1984).

5 TAKI 183 was a youth from ________ who worked as a foot messenger.

6 [47] The Israeli West Bank barrier has become a site for graffiti, reminiscent in this sense of the ________.

7 Shortly after the death of ________ (nicknamed "Yardbird" or "Bird"), graffiti began appearing around New York with the words "Bird Lives".

8 In ancient times graffiti was carved on walls with a sharp object, although sometimes chalk or ________ were used.

9 The ________ was also extensively covered by Graffiti reflecting social pressures relating to the oppressive Soviet rule over the GDR.

10 ________ would abandon his SAMO tag for art galleries, and even street art's connections to hip hop would loosen.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti?
  • the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore?
  • the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings?
  • we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii, and from the poems of Martial, Catullus, and Horace?
  • during conversion of the Dequindre Cut into a greenway, the existing graffiti art was left in place and new additions encouraged?
  • besides utility poles (example pictured), anonymous knitters from Knitta have also left their tags on the Great Wall of China and the Notre Dame de Paris?
  • Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
  • Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?
  • a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s?
  • Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios is regularly visited by tourists wishing to view the U2-inspired graffiti adorning the walls?
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