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Miracles of Urban Graffiti Culture Author Name: Jhon Smith Post Category: Cool Stuff Graffiti, the most controversial art form has become a complex and diverse visual culture with its own language, standards, categories and history. Urban graffiti art can make you doubt your eyes. Once graffiti art was an outlet for political activist to express themselves but now the art form has worked its way into many other areas such as graphic design and digital photography. The Voice - Martha Cooper, Chronicler of the Furtive Arts First came the outline of the nickname his mother had given him, “D-O-N-D-I,” and then the shadings and shadow lettering that gave his “piece” its three-dimensional look. Taxicab yellow, delta blue, orange, pink — the air was toxic with Krylon. It was sunrise when the painter — and Martha Cooper, the photographer recording his pulsing, illicit art — finished work. In the 1970s, Donald White, or “Dondi,” a graffiti writer from East New York, helped spawn an urban art movement that flourished across five continents. The 1984 book “Subway Art,” Ms. Kodakgirl, as Ms. She has also contributed to more than a dozen books, capturing the indomitable spirit of city youth. An Upper West Side resident since 1975, Ms. There was a poem on one of my favorite subway trains. There was once a time When the Lexington was a beautiful line When children of the ghetto expressed with art, not with crime. But then as evolution passed, The Transit’s buffing did its blast. Now the trains look like rusted trash.

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