Visual Art:

Graffiti –

Graffiti is still a popular form of street art to this day, but in many cases it is considered vandalism and is not approved by most people as they don’t consider it ‘art’. Graffiti started in 1967 when a high school student from Philadelphia started tagging city walls to get the attention of a girl, but it was only in the 1980’s that’s galleries began to showcase graffiti as artwork. Popular places of graffiti would typically be undergrounds like train stations subways etc. as these places were out of the way and they would not get caught as easily. Graffiti is created by using different colour spray cans and creating ‘art’, this is normally used to let people express their feelings in an art form and most of the graffiti found in public has a meaning and a purpose instead of just being ‘vandalism’.