Street Art Terms and Definitions
- writings or drawings, scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place
- write or draw graffiti on (something)
from itlaian word graffio meaning 'a scratch'
- artwork that is created in a public space, typically without official permission
- Street Art more mainstream
- Stickers, murals and wheatpastes all types of street art
- art created by scrawling, scratching, marking or painting designs onto surfaces
- common materials used include spray painting with aerosolcans, markers, paints, chalks and stencils
Tag
stylized name or signature created with different materials and is usually freehand e.g. marker and spray paint
- tag called a throw up depending on format and intricacy
- someone who tags is a writer or bomber
- basic form of calligraphy which shows an artists name, usually in one colour, like a signature
- made using spray paints, pens or markers
Throw Ups
- not as elaborate as a piece
- quick with few colours and repeated
- often bubble letters, large and rounded with one colour
Character
- can be cute, realistic or cartoony
- is a type of signature or shorthand enabling the artist to be identified
- can be on its own or in a scene
Wildstyle
- A tag that is more detailed with overlapping and interlocking letters
- Can be a code which can only be read by writers
- arrows, spikes, curves, connecting points and interlocking letters used
- often 3D
Blockbuster
- large block letter using large amounts of space on a wall or surface
- paint rollers often used
Heaven
- graffiti on tops of buildings
Piece
- short for 'masterpiece'
- more time consuming piece
- 'get up' a piece or tag
- 'burner' is when a work is really good
- usuallly has at least three colours
- more complex than tags
Roller
- made with a roller brush
- mainly block letter tags or phrases often with drop shadows and drips
- roller lets artist get to hard to reach places or make bigger work
Crew
- grow of artists who work together
- collaborate to create a scene or individually tag in the same area
Legal Walls
- areas where artists are allowed to do street art legally
- made street art become public art
- often bigger and more detailed because they have time to create a piece
Mural
- big work on a legal wall
- can be done by one person or crew
- can be a scene or connected images
Installation
- site specific work
- 3D or sculptural
- temporary or permanent
- can use different techniques e.g. stencil linked to an actual object in the environment
Sticker
- Simple to make and distribute
- can be done quickly on existing stickers or designed and created in a studio
- seen on signs, poles, doors, walls etc
- when one put up others usually appear
Wheatpaste
- adhesive made from equal flour and water
- name of street art that uses it
- paste applied to area, poster, drawing etc put up and smoothed over, with more wheatpaste applied over the top
- sometimes called a paste up
Stencil
- heavy paper or cardboard used with a design cut into it
- phrase, image or combination
- can be one off or repeated in different areas
- spray paint used on a stencil to create a more elaborate design
- easier to spray paint multiple colours and layers
Yarn Bombing
- knit bombers cover objects in the environment
- called 'grandma graffiti'
- seen as female art form in often male dominated street art scene
Post Graffiti
- combination of street art, public art and graffiti
- legal walls have allowed street artists to be more creative
- using other techniques now
- lots of different techniques, materials and styles used now e.g. LED, skywriting, ligt projections and abstract collage
Types of Graffiti
- Hip Hop Graffiti is traditional graffitti
- Challenge Graffiti shows how someone 'was here'
- Invisible Graffiti uses sketched logos that smbolise things
- Poster Graffiti adapts images on posters
- Tree Graffiti is carved into trees
Street Art
'Street Art is related to graffiti in that it is created in public locations and is usually unsanctioned, but it covers a wider range of media and is more connected with graphic design'
- street art is more open than graffiti which is focused on text based designs
- no rules in street art
- materials and techniques can include flyposting or wheat pasting, stenciling, stickers, freehand drawing and projecting videos
- street artists often have studios and have exhibitions and work in creative areas
Graffiti Art
'Graffiti art as a term refers to images or text painted usually onto buildings, typically using spray paint'
- originated in New York in the 1970s
- can range from wildstyle graphic images to tagged stylised monograms
- not often seen in musuems however aspects of the style integrated into some artists work e.g. Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat
- Barry McGee and Banksy have had their work exhibited
Angel
- used to refer to a famous graffiti artist who has passed away
- their names are tagged with halos, tribute pieces are created or the dates of their birth and death are included
King or Queen
- these are artists who are famous between artists for their work
- can be king of an area or graffiti style
- can only become a king if someone else calls them a king
- if an artist proclaims to be a king (by adding a crown into their design) and others do not think so the crown is slashed out
Married Couple
- describes two subway cars which are grouped together
- these are painted so a design stretches across the two train cars
Heaven spot or heaven
- are risky places to graffiti such as rooftops, signs and bridges
- designs in these places can increase an artists reputation
Piece
- short for masterpiece
- large, complex, time consuming and labour intensive design
- have at least three colours
- sometimes have transitions and three dimensional elements
- 'piece' also used as a verb meaning 'to write'
Tag
- most widely spread type of graffiti
- stylized signature of artist
- 'tag' also a verb meaning 'to sign'
Back to Back
- design that is painted across a wall from one end to the other
- also seen on trains (e2e)
- throw ups common for these kinds of spaces
Black book
- or 'piece book' is a graffiti artists sketch book where they come up with ideas for their work
Throw Up
- or 'throwie' is often a design with bubble letters that can quickly be created
- usually uses two colours and the artists name
- outlined name painted quickly with one layer of spraypaint
Whole train
- a whole train is covered in a design
- usually done by a group of artists
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