Artist Carlos Mare (aka Mare 139) explains graffiti in 12 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Carlos explains everything from the simple tags and throwies to how he crafts a masterpiece using ...
Like a lot of little boys, Champ Styles wanted to be just like his dad. But that got a little complicated at times, because Such Styles was doing graffiti when Champ was born back in 1983. They’ve ...
What do you get when 26 artists are asked to create one letter of the alphabet in their own unique style? Perhaps the most awesome looking kindergarten classroom ever. And a visual feast of ...
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According to lore, modern American graffiti began in the late nineteen-sixties, when a Philadelphia teen-ager named Darryl McCray started spray-painting his nickname, Cornbread, around the city, ...
For over four decades, Bronx-born artist Julius Cavero—better known as Tkid170—has been a defining force in the graffiti movement. Emerging from the early days of New York’s subway art scene, Tkid170 ...
In the early 1970s, the dawn of what became known as hip-hop, he helped shape the art of graffiti on New York City subways. But he hated the word. By Jon Caramanica Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was ...
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