Essays on Graffiti

Wimsatt, William. Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center. Soft Skull Press, 2008. The word of hip-hop and rap is growing immensely drawing large interest from a wide section of interested parties. The hip-hop music genre is known to go with a cool mix of...

Chaz Bojorquez is a favorite street artist who has been working on graffiti since 1969.  This essay analyzes the famous “Senor Suerte” art found at the museum of MOLAA. The graffiti of the Senor Suerte was completed in 1979. The art found at MOLAA is 80X60 inches. The work has...

Graffiti is a term that was developed from the Latin word graffiare, which was subsequently translated into the Italian word graffito, which literally means "to scratch." It means to engrave or create (White 2). Since the messages they conveyed were not constrained by social or political norms, this form of...

A new and distinct culture among young people in the US emerged in the latter decades of the 20th century. Although it is maybe seen as being new, graffiti art has been around for ages. In the 1960s, New York City's streets were the birthplace of modern graffiti art, and...

In order to appreciate beauty and emotional strength, artists use a wide spectrum of human actions to create performing artifacts and show their artistic talent. In its most basic form, it entails art criticism, the study of art history, and the propagation of its aesthetic values. Among the many forms...

Murals are works of art whose canvases are building ceilings, walls, and other surfaces. Cavemen first experimented with murals as a means of creative expression by painting on the walls of the caves they lived in. As a result, the genre of art is regarded as the oldest in the...

Imagine a world where graffiti was not illegal, a city where anyone could draw anything they wanted. Every street was awash with a million colors and little phrases. Where it was never dull to wait at a bus stop. A town that looked like a festival where everybody was welcome,...