... New York!
Nowadays New York belongs
to the biggest streetart-hotspots in the world.
New
York is the city, where the whole story of streetart started in
the 60s: Teenagers wrote
their names on walls, just with pens. That´s all.
Whereas this
kind of „art“ seems very unspectacular, there was a big hype
around it.
Today this kind of „Nickname writing“ is called „Tagging“. It is still a important component in the streetart scene.
Later
on the tags got bigger, more creative and more colourful. The artists tried out how to draw their name even fancier
than before and so the „piece“ was born. That´s what we see as
a „real graffiti“: writing your name or any word in big and entwined letters on a wall.
Despite being illegal, nowadays Streetart is a part of everyday life in New York. Graffiti is painted everywhere,
in every size, colour and sense. Posters and Stickers are fixed on
signs, buildings or just on the street (which is usually not exactly illegal, but let´s say it´s at the edge of legality).
Many artists exhibit their art in New York. Even Banksy has
been there to present some artworks and the people loved it.
But
spraying isn´t illegal everywhere: there are some places like the corner Bowery/Houston Street where the graffiti has been
legalized and people can meet in order to spray.
Another way to do
graffiti in a legal way are the containers that got provided by the
city. At so called „block partys“ these containers were painted
and everyone can take part or just have a look.
Below you can see some pictures taken in New York.
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