graffiti

(noun)

A form of art involving painting text or images in public places.

Related Terms

Examples of graffiti in the following topics:

  • Political Art: Race and Ethnicity in the 1990s

    • The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations.
    • The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts .
    • It is characterized by four distinct elements: rap music (oral), turntablism or "DJing" (aural), breaking (physical; ) and graffiti art (visual).

  • The Role of the Artist

    • ., advertising, graffiti, product design, television, and movies), and the decorative arts (e.g., utilitarian objects such as furniture, glassware, ceramics, and all the crafts).

  • Using Art

    • Popular art includes movies, product design, television, posters, graffiti, advertising, and video games.

  • Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

    • By the 1980s and 1990s, hip-hop graffiti became predominate in urban communities.

  • Dura-Europos

    • The surviving frescoes, graffiti and dipinti (which number in the dozens) are of enormous interest to the study of the social composition of the cult.