Amazing Facts About the Graffiti Art

We have surely seen Graffiti artworks at least once in our lives. Here's a quiz you should definitely take that will help you know more about this art.

In modern times, spray paint and marker pens are commonly used as graffiti materials.

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Graffiti was primarily used to make political statements and mark street gang territory.

About ten years after its inception around 1970, graffiti culture started to be linked with hip-hop, a concept coined by media to facilitate commercialization of graffiti.

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The first known graffiti artist was Mr. Darryl McCray, street named Cornbread. The story starts with young Cornbread developing a crush on Cynthia Custuss, so he wrote Cornbread Loves Cynthia all over the local area to win her over.

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Train bombing is where a group of writers quickly cover a train in graffiti before authorities arrive.

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The Berlin Wall was extensively covered by graffiti reflecting social pressures relating to oppressive Soviet rule over GDR.

One new to graffiti is called toy. Those with more experience and respect among other writers are called kings or queens.

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'Black book', also called 'piece book', is a graffiti writers' sketch book where they draw and plan potential graffiti works. It can be a book featuring a collection of tags by other graffiti writers.

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Heaven spot pieces often pose challenges for graffiti writers, but they also increase an artist's fame.

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This was done in Dubai in 2014 by over 100 artists, in celebration for the 43rd United Arab Emirates Union Day.

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Tagging is the act of writing your graffiti name with spray paint or markers.

Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director, active since 1990s. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in distinctive stenciling method.

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