He was
the first graffiti writer is southern California to paint freight trains and he pioneered writing on «heavens», freeway overpasses.
Not exact matches
At
first glance American
Graffiti appears to be a nostalgia trip back to the early 1960s, the teenage years of its now legendary filmmakers — producer Francis Ford Coppola who at the time had just directed The Godfather and
writer / director George Lucas who would go on to create the Star Wars franchise.
Lyken's history as a
graffiti artist stretches back to the eighties when he was one of the
first writers active in Scotland.
First introduced to the street as a teenage
graffiti writer, he eventually felt limited by -LSB-...]
Also beginning in the late eighties on the West Coast of the US, the Wildstyle - reductionist Joker was one of the
first graffiti artists to paint purely geometric abstractions and pushed for its acceptance within the
graffiti community by founding the Transcend Collective in 1991 with She1, who was an abstract
writer in the UK.
From
graffiti's humble beginnings in 1967 to the
first painting being sold in 1973, Wall
Writers reveals the context of the start of a movement that would eventually grow to transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over.