During the 20th century, graffiti in the United States and Europe was closely associated with gangs.

Graffiti was particularly prominent in major urban centres throughout the world, especially in the
United States and Europe; common targets were subways, billboards, and walls. In the 1990s there
emerged a new form of graffiti, known as tagging, which entailed the repeated use of a single
symbol or series of symbols to mark territory. In order to attract the most attention possible, this
type of graffiti usually appeared in strategically or centrally located neighbourhoods.

One of the first known graffiti artists was called Cornbread.

Darryl McCray known by his name Cornbread is a graffiti artist from Philadelphia, credited with
being the fisrst modern graffiti artist

Graffiti started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the turn of the late 60's with writers
like Cornbread and Cool Earl.

The movement took on very quickly in New York City and names and nicknames started
to appear on buildings, post-boxes, phone boxes, underground tunnels, buses and finally
on subway cars. Taki 183, whose name was to be seen all over NY, gave an interview to
The New York Times in 1971. Takis real name was Demetrius, 183 is the number of the
street where he lived. This young greek boy wrote his name almost everywhere during
his work hours as a messenger. Other well known writers from that period were: Joe
136, Barbara and Eva 62, Eel 159, Yank 135, Julio 204, Frank 207

Most jurisdictions have laws prohibiting graffiti as vandalism, and in some countries
punishment is quite severe.

To many intellectuals, it was a new and vital art form. To city officials, however, graffiti
was illegal vandalism. New York established an anti-graffiti task force and an
undercover graffiti police unit and spent many millions of dollars on experimental
solvents and train yard security improvements. By the mid-1980s, New York had cut
down on graffiti, but by then the art form had spread across the United States and to
Europe. A new kind of "gang graffiti" that marks territory and sends messages to rival
gangs became common in Los Angeles in the late 1980s.

If you owned a building, you certainly wouldnt want someone to paint the side of it
unleyou asked them to. ss
 People pay for their wall to be decorated, this
creates job for people.
It is a way for people to express themselves.

It can be used raise money for charity.

Graffiti can be inspirational, emotional
and cultural.
It can be decorative and make and
epmty space look good.

CORN BREAD
-Darryl
McCray known by his name Cornbread is a graffiti artist
from Philadelphia, credited with being the fisrst modern graffiti artist