Graphic Design: Idea In Context - Graffiti (Advertising Uses Graffiti Art)Final.

Idea In Context
Final - Graffiti

Definition

-As we know, we have seen many street artwork in our country like graffiti artwork, sculpture, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster and street installation, art intervention, guerilla art and street installation. Many people say street art is vandalism and more to their property that we cant touch. Typically, the term street art or the more specific post-graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism and corporate art. Graffiti is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched or spray illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public surface. In this century, the material that commonly used in making graffiti is paint,spray paint and marker pens. The word graffiti and graffito are word from Italian word graffitio (“scratched”) and it is applied in art history to work of art produced by scratching a design into a surface.

Types of graffiti.

-There are 8 types of graffiti.
- Tag

* Tagging is the simplest type of graffiti, consisting of the writer’s street name in one color. Tags are basically the graffiti writer’s signature; if they’re associated with a crew, they might also contain the crew’s name or initials. Tags can be seen everywhere and are done in spray paint, markers or pens. If a tag is put up over another writer’s tag or piece, it’s extremely disrespectful.

- Throw up

* Throw up is more complicated than tag. Throw up are usually have two color or three but not nearly elaborate as a piece. Throw up is something that can be done fast, quickly or repeatedly, while still identifying the writer. Most common font they is used bubble letter in one color and different color outline.

- Stencil

* Stencil is quickly and effective way to put something complicated is faster way. We can get more detailed of the picture than we would be able to with just a spray can. Stencil graffiti can be thrown up in matter of minutes .

-Sticker

* Stickers are quick and easy way to to throw up the tag quickly. It like lazy work to do,just take the sticker and stick at the wall. You can see them on the free address labels you can get from th Post Office.

- Wildstyle

* Wildstyle is particular style of writing graffiti. This style was developed and popularized by graffiti artists like Tracy 168, Stay High 149 Zephyr in New York City. It`s complicated and extremely stylized form of writing that, to the untarained eye it hard to read it. Wildstyle writing features arrows, spikes, curves and elements that non graffiti. Wildstyle pieces are often 3D and considered to be one of the most complicated forms of graffiti.

- Piece

* A pice is a graffiti painting. It like a short masterpiece. This is complex than a tag and having at least three colors. Piece are hard to do illegally because it is a good piece and will gain a lot of respect for that particular artist.

- Blockbuster

* Blockbuster is used to cover maximum of area in short time to make a graffiti. Often consisting of large block letters, it can be accomplished with paint roller and two or three of color paint.

- Heaven

* A heaven is a piece that’s put up in a very hard-to-reach location, often near or on the tops of tall buildings or on freeway signs. Because they’re so dangerous and difficult to reach, graffiti artists who manage to get a piece up in such a spot will usually gain some added respect from their peers.