He rented an apartment facing the Coliseum in Rome and began to work on larger scale paintings, which were increasingly spare, incorporating scrawled words and doodle - like shapes on a smudged off - white background, establishing a lifelong reputation as a high - art graffitist that generally irked him. (nytimes.com)
He first rose to prominence as a New York subway graffitist under the tag name SAMO. (mnuchingallery.com)
So, for instance, she doesn't use artist's oils or acrylics, preferring the house painter's enamel and the graffitist's spray paint, along with dye and all sorts of montaged materials such as leather and flattened beer cans. (thenation.com)