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My project is essentially about the difference between Graffiti-Vandalism (Tags, Bombs, etc.) and Graffiti-murals (Murals, Pieces, etc.) so in order to do so i’m proposing to transform the two stairwells located in my school library into ‘Galleries’. What i am going to do is paint directly on the walls of the staircases, and because the two are located on the direct opposite sides of the library. In one of the stairwells i’m going to paint ‘Graffiti that one would see on the streets. using mediums such as ink, Paint, etc. Really anything that can leave a mark, or stain public property.

• Tags: The most basic form of graffiti, a writer’s signature with marker or spray paint. It is the writer’s logo, his/her stylized personal signature. If a tag is long it is sometimes abbreviated to the first two letters or the first and last letter of the tag. Also may be ended with the suffixes “one”, “ski”, “rock”, “em” and “er”.
• Bombs: Over time, this term has been applied to many different types of graffiti. Subway art says it is “a name painted quickly with one layer of spray paint and an outline”, although some consider a throwup to be bubble letters of any sort, not necessarily filled. Throwups can be from one or two letters to a whole word or a whole roll call of names. Often times throwups incorporate an exclamation mark after the word or letter. Throwups are generally only one or two colors, no more. Throwups are either quickly done bubble letters or very simple pieces using only two colors.
• Scribe: A tagging instrument, usually made out of a diamond drillbit, used to physically engrave one’s name on buses and mass transit vehicles. Considered by some writers to be more destructive than is needed. Sandpaper is sometimes used to tag buses in the same manner–it too is considered mass destruction.
• Stickers: These are commonly made with blank postage stickers, or really anything with an adhesive side to it. While its critics consider this as lazy and a form of cheating, But seeing as some stickers can show an artist’s detailed work and may take up to 10 minutes or more, it has slowly being accepted as a form of ‘Graffiti’
• Paste-Ups: These are otherwise known as poster art, these usually consist of graphic images and words on newspaper-thin paper often exploring political viewpoints. It explores attributes (like languages and/or techniques) of the traditional poster. The thin nature of the poster and the adhesive used to attach them is designed to make the posters hard to tear or remove.

In the other stairwell i will paint a more mural-esque themed painting, In this stairwell you will see the more sophisticated side of graffiti, the side that most people paint on commissioned and legal walls. Because the mural will be ‘Graffiti’ themed, all of the elements listed as ‘street’ graffiti will be included in the painting of the 2nd Stairwell, however the evolution that takes place going from one to the next, from ‘street’ to ‘mural’ will the evident.

• Piece: A graffiti painting, short for masterpiece. It’s generally agreed that a painting must have at least three colors to be considered a piece.
• Wildstyle: A complicated construction of interlocking letters. A hard style that consists of lots of arrows and connections. Wildstyle is considered one of the hardest styles to master and pieces done in wildstyle are often completely undecipherable to non-writers.
• Background: Originated on the subways out of neccessity. Backgrounds were used to make the piece stand out from all the tags and assorted scribbling on a subway car that make the piece hard to discern; the color or design painted behind the piece to make it stand out from the wall or train.

It is quite obvious by the second set of definitions listed, Graffiti is continuously evolving art form, and just like any other art form it is a multi-dimensional art form and my product will be an accurate representation of this.

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