I LOVE GRAFFITI

Graffiti is one of the 4 main characteristics of Hip Hop Culture :Master of Ceremonies, Graffiti, DJ(Disk jockey )and Break-dance. The Original Graffiti was just scratching or drawing on the war surface. After that, Modern Graffiti was formed by the appearance of spray-painting and It becomes 1 of 4 main elements of Hip Hop culture.

There are 3 common styles in Graffiti.

-The First and the most basic is “Tag”. Tag is the way of writing Artist’s name or signatures.

-The second one is “Throw-ups”. Throw-ups is painting a graffiti pictures very quickly with simple color. The main facet of “Throw ups” style is the speed of painting, not the beauty of pictures.

-The last and the most complex style is “wildstyle” or “wickedstyle” which are a form of graffiti involving interlocking letters, arrows, and connecting points.

Unfortunately, Graffiti is illegal in most countries because graffiti pictures are painted in the walls which are not permitted by the their owner.

I am very interested in graffiti and often use graffiti styles in my designs. Graffiti really conquered me because of these reasons :

Firstly, graffiti is very youthful .It represents mostly characteristics of young peoples, especially teenagers such as excitement, free, hot-tempered, and a little of rebellion etc .For that reason, there are many young people choose graffiti styles for their decorations on T shirts, cars, cap. laptop Etc

Secondly, graffiti is very colorful. Colors are used in graffiti are often impressive colors such as red, yellow, blue, green, black .etc and high contrast pairs of colors such as yellow and red, red and black, yellow and black, blue and red. These colors indicate high vitality of people

The last and the most persuasive reason that graffiti absolutely conquer me is that the rebellion in designs. Curves , zigzag lines, long lines shows the extreme freedom in designing. High contrast colors and big impressive painting pictures( such as yelling man face) indicates deconstructive styles.

Graffiti is wonderful. I love graffiti