Graffiti Graffiti is markings – often writing or drawing – scratched, sprayed or scribbled onto a surface – often walls – in public areas. Ancient Graffiti The first signs of graffiti appear during prehistoric times; found on walls in caves, drawings of figures and animals – scenes from people’s lives during that period of time. More recently, graffiti is found in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. Scratched into walls of buildings, people wrote their names, messages, famous literacy quotes, simple words and phrases. This provides an insight into what life was like during this period and what it featured. Modern Graffiti Even though it was there graffiti didn’t feature heavily until the late 1960’s when it became popular. After several strikes
1.The name for the Egyptian art piece is named Menkaure and a Queen and is measured at 4 feet 8 inches high and located at Museum of Fine Arts,Boston. Its medium is Greywacke previously supplemented with some red/black paint. http://arthistoryresources.net/menkaure/menkauredescription.html The title of the Grecian art piece is Metropolitan Kouros and is measured at 6 ft. high and located Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
GRUESOME GRAFFITI Gruesome Graffiti It was a rainy day, on June 5th, 1986. This story takes place in a small ghost town called Villisca, Iowa. You may know this small town from "Granger family murder" which is the scene to a very gruesome and heartless murder.
Upon visiting the Huntsville Museum of Art, I was very surprised to find all of the tremendous galleries that were currently up at the museum. In addition, after exploring the entire museum there was one gallery that really intrigued me, and this was the gallery of Antoine Ponchin and his son Jos. Henri Ponchin. What made the Ponchin gallery so interesting to me was both the father and the son were landscape artist. Moreover, both Ponchins travelled to many locations to paint magnificent pictures. Choosing a picture to paint about from this gallery was a challenge for me mainly because both Antoine and Jos.
William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Jimmy Breslin’s article, “The Fear and the Flames” are very similar even though they were written during two very different time periods. Both writers revealed how people sometimes respond to the assassination of public figures. Breslin wrote about the events in Washington, D.C. following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Shakespeare noted the events following Julius Caesar’s assassination in Rome. These two men were very respected leaders in both societies that very few did not like. In both writings, the citizens reacted in similar ways by innocent people getting hurt, looting businesses and breaking things also known as vandalism, and fire and burning also known as arson.
Christian Thompson’s series Australian Graffiti involves staged images of the artist wearing Australian flora as a headdress. Thompson has arranged the flowers and leaves into intricate headbands that partially or fully cover his eyes from the viewer. ‘I carry the flowers with me like the most quintessential Australian symbol, a return to a more pagan and traditional symbiosis between man and the natural world. Perhaps the flowers are an extension of this visceral response to my surroundings. Sometimes when I am talking with people I visualise clusters of Warratahs or Banksias protruding from their shoulders or coming out of their mouths, it is with that degree that they are present in my everyday life’.
Street Art is absolutely everywhere, and that statement is only a little hyperbolic. Countless cities across America all feature similar calling cards and stickers on the walls of skyscrapers or on the backs of street signs. From the sprawling cities of New York and Los Angles to smaller metropolitan areas like Charlotte or Charleston, no matter how different the city is, all anyone needs to do is look on the side of a telephone pole or the back of a crossing light to see dozens of stickers made by countless artist. To me, however, one sticker has always stood out and greeted me in each city, and it has always perplexed me. It’s a sticker of the wrestler Andre the Giant, and I always wondered what the point of the sticker was.
The two specific pieces I discussed in my paper was the Turin Erotic Papyrus and some of the paintings. In the paper as well as the presentation, I explained the artworks in accordance to the paragraph. When discussing the portrayal of gender in the ancient Egyptian culture, the painting were the main indicator how people sought the ideal standards of gender/beauty. In terms of the Turin Erotic Papyrus, this piece was discussed in the paragraph regarding the Egyptians views on sex and sexuality. The papyrus depicts 12 sexual acts and really gives us a glimpse into ancient sex.
Have you ever been driving down the highway and see some graffiti on the side of the road? Have you ever stopped and considered where that was from? Sure the graffiti is illegal but it has a meaning and a origin. Well while your sitting there wondering
Whether you want to be working at McDonalds or working only 40 hours a week. I see the graffiti as motivation to be in a better place than where you started. It can be the driving factor that helps you to reach your goals and more. Being able to live a life where you are content with what you have achieved. Furthermore, ultimately you can reach your desired
The paper will show the appearance of the graffities happens again and again like a curse for Rorschach’s tragedy life. The graffities in Watchmen are painted by gangsters in black ink on different wall backgrounds which is shown in the 2nd panel of Watchmen chapter 5 page 11. All of them share the similar image
Which Roman Legacy Has Had The Greatest Impact On Today's Society? Many parts of today's society have been affected by the legacy of Rome. More importantly, today's laws and philosophies have been influenced by Ancient Rome. Roman law, citizenship, and philosophies have affected the way we live today.
State the thesis: Not all graffiti is bad. In fact graffiti is a way for the neglected to stand up and make a statement
“No Trespassing.” It’s a message that we’ve all seen before, on street signs and on fences, but that most of us stopped considering as part of our daily lives. These signs just sort of blend into the background, no more noticeable than a crack in the sidewalk or a plain, solid-colored exterior wall. On the ordinary brown-painted brick backside of a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District, a bold, red No Trespassing sign is the center of a piece of thought-provoking street art. Below and to the right of the sign are some run-of-the-mill graffiti tags: pale yellow spray paint forming illegible words marking the territory of a gang or juvenile delinquent.
Ultimately, graffiti comes from a past of cave paintings and great communities with creative
Graffiti is considered to be drawings,paintings in a public place graffiti is illegal because most people think it is criminal mischief because it may diminish the appearance of our community. Everyone