Hamburg Subway-Graffiti

    1. Hamburg Subway-Graffiti   Time 2008-05-29 18:42
  • Hamburg Subway-Graffitiis the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is often regarded by others as unsightly damage or unwanted vandalism.Between the years of 1969-1974 the "pioneering era" took place. During this time graffiti underwent a change in styles and popularity. Soon after the migration to NYC, the city produced one of the first graffiti artists to gain media attention in New York, TAKI 183. TAKI 183 was a youth from Washington Heights, Manhattan who worked as a foot messenger. His tag is a mixture of his name Demetrius (Demetraki), TAKI, and his street number, 183rd. Being a foot messenger, he was constantly on the subway and began to put up his tags along his travels. This spawned a 1971 article in the New York Times titled "'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals".[8][6][9] Julio 204 is also credited as the first writer, but didn't get the fame that Taki received. TAKI 183 was the first artist to be recognised outside of the graffiti subculture, but wasn't the first artist. Other notable names from that time are: Stay High 149, Hondo 1, Phase 2, Flint 707, Tracy 167,Spin, Snake 1, Mico 1, Stitch 1, SEEN, Bosik 1, Bolst 1, Kinks 2, Septik 1, Joe 182, Junior 161 and Cay 161. Barbara 62 and Eva 62 were also important early graffiti artists in New York, and are the first known females to write graffiti.Also taking place during this era was the movement from outside on the city streets to the subways. Graffiti also saw its first seeds of competition around this time. The goal of most artists at this point was called "getting up" and involved having as many tags and bombs in as many places as possible. Artists began to break into subway yards in order to hit as many trains as they could with a lower risk, often creating larger elaborate pieces of art along the subway car sides. This is when the act of bombing was said to be officially established.During the late 60's, there were advertisment posters in stations of the subway system for a marker product called the "graffiti pen". This ad featured multiple copies of a photo of a woman, one of which had the usual beard graffiti artwork as a demo, and the other copies undecorated, for people to mark up. Some people may have taken this advertisment to mean that the MTA subway system didn't mind graffiti.By 1971 tags began to take on their signature calligraphic appearance because, due to the huge number of artists, each graffiti artist needed a way to distinguish themselves. Aside from the growing complexity and creativity, tags also began to grow in size and scale -- for example, many artists had begun to increase letter size and line thickness, as well as outlining their tags. This gave birth to the so-called 'masterpiece' or 'piece' in 1972. Super Kool 223 is credited as being the first to do these pieces.The use of designs such as polka dots, crosshatches, and checkers became increasingly popular. Spray paint use increased dramatically around this time as artists began to expand their work. [1] Flint 707 created the 1st 3-D "Top-to-bottom" masterpiece which spanned the entire height of a subway car, and revolutionized the entire movement to massive proportions and then other artists like Pistol 1 made their first 3-D appearance around this time as well. The overall creativity and artistic maturation of this time period did not go unnoticed by the mainstream -- Hugo Martinez founded the United Graffiti Artists (UGA) in 1972. UGA consisted of the top graffiti artists of the time, Snake 1, T-REX 1, Stay High 149, COCO 144, SuperStuff, Nova 1, Mico 1, Phase 2, Flint 707, SJK 171, Stitch 1, Slim 1 , Pistol 1, Bama 1 and aimed to present graffiti in an art gallery setting. By 1974, graffiti artists had begun to incorporate the use of scenery and cartoon characters into their work.
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