English blog: Graffity or Urban Art

GRAFFITY vs URBAN ART

-Graffity: is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public place.

-Urban art: is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life. Urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban life style.

Urban Art

Graffiti

URBAN ARTISTS

- SAMO

It´s a graffiti tag used on the streets of New York City from 1977 to early 1980. It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag is written with a copyright symbol as "SAMO©".

- BANKSY

Banksy is a pseudonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter. Although his identity has not been proven, reliable sources report that he is believed to be Robin Gunningham, a former public schoolboy at Bristol Cathedral Choir School.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world

- JOSE PARLA

José Parlá (born 1973) started painting in the early 1980s, exhibiting his works in the streets of Miami. The Brooklyn based artist has been exhibiting internationally since 2000.

- KEITH HARING

Keith Allen Haring (1958– 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war.

Haring's work was often heavily politicaL] and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.