Graffiti and Street Art

"I think graffiti writing is a way of defining what our generation is like. Excuse the French, we're not a bunch of p---- artists. Traditionally artists have been considered soft and mellow people, a little bit kooky. Maybe we're a little bit more like pirates that way. We defend our territory, whatever space we steal to paint on, we defend it fiercely." Tony Blair signed a charter which stated: Graffiti is not art, it's crime. On behalf of my constituents, I will do all I can to rid our community of this problem. However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled 'art terrorist' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti (bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting) as well as the content; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs Graffiti Street art Aerosol paint Marker pen Vandalism Hip hop Hip hop music B-boying Catacombs of Rome Pompeii Gladiator Maya civilization Renaissance Pinturicchio Alexamenos graffito Lee Quiñones Debbie Harry Blondie (band) Rapture (song) Jean-Michel Basquiat Wild Style The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song) Planet Rock (song) DONDI Beat Street Stencil graffiti Commercial graffiti PlayStation Portable Jet Set Radio Video game culture Berlin Wall Graffiti Blasters Half-Life (series) Tony Hawk (series) The Darkness (video game) ImagiNation Network Yahoo! Graffiti Keith Haring Graphic design Lionel Messi FIFA Street (2012 video game) United Arab Emirates Hamshahri Israeli West Bank barrier Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman Scribing (graffiti) Graffiti Research Lab Glossary of graffiti Graffiti in the United States Saber (artist) Style Wars Avant-garde Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism M.I.A. (artist) Lucy R. Lippard Anarcho-punk Crass Anti-war movement Anarchism Feminism Consumerism London Underground Ruling class Ladbroke Grove Anti-establishment Segregation in Northern Ireland Fashion Moda Terrance Lindall Lady Pink Tsang Tsou Choi Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 Keep Britain Tidy Tony Blair Obelisco de Buenos Aires 80 Blocks From Tiffany's Quality of Life (film) Piece by Piece (film) Rash (film) Bomb the System Bomb It Exit Through the Gift Shop Shepard Fairey Anti-graffiti coating Graffiti abatement Kilroy was here Kotwica Spray paint art Stencil Visual pollution Yarn bombing