Graffiti: What we commonly call graffiti, this word is originally from the Greek "Graphein". The most recognized theory is that graffiti originated in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) in the United States in 1966. At the beginning, graffiti did not have the concept of a piece, but simply wrote tags, etc. The tags of these graffitiwriters (graffiti writers) were not only their own nicknames but also their house numbers. Until the later period of 1971-1974, more and more writers I began to study fonts, effects, etc. In the 1980s, writers were doing graffiti on different surfaces such as cars and trains, and the wall was no longer the only medium. As time goes by, writers have more methods and approaches. Let people know him/her, VideoGraf, cyberspace, etc... Graffiti art and hip-hop music both originated in the Bronx in New York. The Bronx is the only neighborhood connected to the mainland of the United States. The poorest neighborhood in New York. Since the 1960s, it has been occupied by black and Latino residents from Central and North America. They live in poorly equipped slum apartments built by the government, surrounded by dilapidated streets and desolate weeds. Years of poverty have made black teenagers worship money extremely. Being a professional athlete is a shortcut for them to get rich quickly. At that time, it was common to see groups of shirtless black boys playing basketball on the few basketball courts in the Bronx. Many of them wore gold chains as thick as their fingers around their necks. The worship of money made public display of wealth a fashion in the Bronx. Of course, there are also many young people who have started illegal businesses such as drug trafficking and pimping. Doing these illegal things is very likely to get caught by the police or targeted by street gangsters. Therefore, these people formed gangs to protect themselves. For a time, countless underworld organizations emerged in the Bronx, such as the "Primitive Skeletons", "Savage Ronin", "Javelin Team", "Royal Wizards", "Seven Crowns" and so on. At that time, many young people joined various gangs in search of a sense of belonging. In their naive imagination, gangs are like those depicted in Bruce Lee movies, where a group of people unite to fight with their opponents and build eternal friendships in the process. During that time, gang symbols were scrawled all over the Bronx, mixed with obscene patterns that resembled "toilet literature." American newspapers described the Bronx as "like a primitive settlement." No wonder some people associate graffiti with primitive people, because the earliest human writings and paintings were engraved on walls, and those murals are the only records of civilization left by prehistoric humans. But with the advent of paper, murals became a symbol of uncivilization. Especially after the emergence of cities, modern people seem to have become accustomed to the smooth surfaces of buildings, and any pattern has become a kind of destruction, a kind of anti-civilization spiritual pollution. If the murals in the Bronx remain in the era of gang tags, future generations may have little to say. However, a few people with drawing talents began to design new labels themselves out of dissatisfaction with the crude gang labels. Since then, these gang symbols have become better-looking. Later, a group of non-gangster painters with a rebellious spirit finally realized that the wall was the cheapest and most practical canvas in the world, and they took action. Since then, a new art form - "Graffiti" (Graffiti) was born. Most of the real graffiti artists have nothing to do with gangs. They are poor people from the bottom, and their spray cans and paint are stolen from stores. They were all thoughtful people, and from then on, cautionary mottoes appeared on the walls of New York. They are all talented people, and many fresh brushwork techniques in painting (especially artistic fonts) emerged from this. More importantly, they are a group of people with a strong desire to express themselves. They are not paid and are willing to haunt the dark nights of New York all year round just to let passers-by take a look at their works. To distance themselves from gang taggers and simple-minded graffiti writers, they call themselves writers instead of painters. In order not to be caught by the police and to add a mysterious touch to their works, these "writers" all designed a signature for themselves. Most of their signatures are a simple word with a number suffixed. The first "writer" mentioned in a newspaper was named "Taki183", and the article appeared in the New York Times in 1971. The protagonist's real name is Demitrius, Taki is the Greek abbreviation of Demitrius, and 183 is the name of the street where he lives. That report was the first serious discussion of graffiti culture. Soon, the graffiti writers were not satisfied with static walls, and they came up with the idea of ????subway cars. New York has the most developed subway system in the world, with tracks running like streets throughout New York City. At that time, New York residents working the morning shift were often surprised to find that a subway car that had been fine last night suddenly turned into a mobile graffiti exhibition, covered with colorful patterns. Those letters are like bubbles, full of movement.

The most amazing thing is that after changing cars, the pattern is still the same! So, they remembered a signature: Phase2. This Phase2 was the most famous graffiti painter in the early 1970s. His original name was Lonny Wood and he graduated from Clinton High School in the Bronx. This middle school was once a meeting place for early graffiti artists. Not far from here is the New York Department of Transportation parking lot, where scrapped subway cars are stored. So that parking lot became a place for them to practice. Wood is a black man and extremely talented. The "bubble letters" he created are the best representative of the Bronx graffiti style, and he is known as the Miles Davis (Miles Davis, the famous jazz trumpeter) of the graffiti world. Following Phase 2, graffiti in New York has undergone many style changes, with a series of new ideas such as three-dimensional letters and train animation (a series of character animations, the characters become active after the subway train starts moving). A group of talented graffiti painters have become stars, such as SUPERKOOL223, ElMarko174, Staff161, Cliff159, Flint707 and so on. The then Mayor of New York, Lindsay, turned a blind eye to this because there were many more important things waiting for him to deal with in the chaotic New York City than graffiti. The laissez-faire attitude of the city government is an important reason why graffiti, and even hip-hop culture as a whole, can develop and grow. The so-called "graffiti" artists in New York have repeatedly tried to take over "graffiti" as their own. Several art dealers held a large-scale graffiti exhibition in Washington, D.C., in 1973, which attracted a lot of media attention. They asked graffiti artists to paint their works on canvas and put them up for sale in exhibition halls. Predictably, the exhibition was scorned by critics. Those art dealers ignored the fact that only the works painted on the walls of apartments or outside subway cars were real graffiti. Later, a man named Freddie organized a group of graffiti painters and went to clubs in downtown New York to promote them, achieving certain success. One of his graffiti painters named Samo has gained great popularity with his outstanding skills and personal charm. The real name of this painter who was born in Brooklyn is Jean-Michel Basquiat. This person has achieved impressive results whether in the field of graffiti, painting on canvas, and later three-dimensional sculptures. . More importantly, he himself has always lived a bohemian life and is a living graffiti work. A documentary with him as the background, "New York Beat Movie", truly recorded his daily life and left precious information for future generations. Unfortunately, Basquiat died of a drug overdose in 1988. Later generations often compare him with the veteran of rock and roll, Jimi Hendrix. After this brief renaissance, graffiti became a bestseller in the United States. The government's increasingly strict management has frightened graffiti artists, and advertisers' imitation of graffiti techniques has completely lost motivation for graffiti artists. But in other lax cities around the world, graffiti is still taking off. The live broadcast in 1989 allowed many people to appreciate the graffiti masterpiece on the Berlin Wall for the first time. Whether in Europe or South Enos Aires, the works of graffiti artists can still be seen on the streets and in subway stations to this day. The terms for graffiti are: WRITER: Graffitiist ALL-CITY: When a graffiti artist or graffiti group paints all the main subway lines in the city, it is called ALLCITY. BENCH: A gathering place for graffiti artists, usually a place where dots are collected. BENCHING: Take some points. BITE: Plagiarizing other people’s works (very impolite behavior!!) BOMB: Just graffiti! ! BUFF: The thing that makes graffiti creators the most angry: getting rid of graffiti! ! BURN: Compete with other graffiti artists to see whose work is better. A similar word is stylewars. BURNER: refers to those super powerful works, usually WILDSTYLE. CAPS: Special spray nozzle for graffiti, available in three types: fat, skinny, Germanthin. MONTANA: The best special spray for graffiti in the world. 7CREW: Team CROSSINGOUT: to obliterate or cover someone's name. DESIGNS: Adding small patterns such as glitter or colorful spots to the background is called DESIGN. The quality is generally determined by the author's imagination and technology. DOPE: To compliment someone's work. FAMILIES: Refers to the embarrassing situation of encountering the same name as someone else's THROW-UP. GETTINGUP: When your name is painted in many places, your popularity will increase, and it will be called GETTINGUP. GETTINGOVER: The rising star. FILL-IN: Color. HANDSTYLE: Generally refers to the form of TAG or handwriting style. HIT: refers to TAG.throw-up or a piece of work. OUTLINE: hook edge. FINALOUTLINE: After the coloring and DESIGNS are completed, in order to trim the outline of the work, the edges need to be hooked again. PIECE: refers to a complete work, the abbreviation of MASTERPIECE. TAG: author’s nickname and signature. THROW-UP: A simple graffiti that only hooks the edges without coloring, or a single color, such as white. Or called T-UP, which is simpler.

WILDSTYLE: Refers to a graffiti style that is messy, with letters connected in series, distorted fonts, and brilliant colors. Making works of this style requires the author to have a certain amount of imagination and skills. PRODUCTION: Large-scale graffiti, detailed and patterned, usually on tall buildings. WAK: Unqualified graffiti. PIECEBOOK, BLACKBOOK: Sketch

Graffiti culture is a way of expression, a reflection of life, views and opinions on life, and an accusation of injustice around us. It is a spiritual expression Window. This culture, modified by those of us who can appreciate the meaning, has evolved into an art. The foundation of this art is that consciousness reflects facts. As long as the fact exists in the event, the thoughts in the heart will be generated. , so that everything about you will be revealed from the graffiti you create and become a work of art. The emergence of something that can reflect human thoughts is a work of art that is most suitable for human beings. The explanation in the dictionary is: drewings or writing on a public wall, usu humorous, obscene or political. (Drawings or writing on a public wall) pictures or writing, usually containing humorous, obscene or political content. Graffiti has different contents in different places. For example, in the United States it is political content, while in Europe it is the whole picture, and in Japan it is usually some words... But now, there is no clear boundary. Because graffiti culture is human culture, and since human culture extends in all directions, graffiti culture is also the world Sexual. After more than 20 years of evolution, graffiti has been regarded as a rebellious performance art, spray painting and graffiti. Graffiti graffiti art, as a visual vocabulary, has always been coexisting with Hip-Hop culture. Do you still remember that in black movies, we often see strange words painted on the outside of stations, subways, and even train cars? In fact, it is spray painting and graffiti. These patterns sprayed on cement floors, building exteriors and subways are wild, intoxicating and impromptu, representing the artist's own position or views on society, phenomena, etc. But is it easy to use a spray paint bottle? No, wrong. A true spray painter uses a spray bottle as a paintbrush and paints on the ground, on the ground, or on any kind of surface where painting would not otherwise be possible. Famous spray painters can even be combined with clothing to become a fashion trend. According to different styles, fonts and tones, inkjet artists around the world have established their own culture and world, which is in line with the unique and inimitable spirit of Hip Hop.