Is Graffiti an art form?

Graffiti writing is a social, artistic and cultural form widespread in all the planet, based to express their creativity. The first graffiti writer was TAKI 183 in 1970, which together with Ramellzee, started making graffiti in New York; in Italy was Carlo Torrighelli (born 1909) in Milan.

It all started from 'graffiti writing', a phenomenon initially youthful characterized by incessant action of boys and girls determined to impose their pseudonymus located in an urban area. Over the years it has created its own linguistic code, differentiating works made stylistic categories and giving rise to a dense network of international connections of lovers protagonists. If would be more accurate, however, to associate the phenomenon of writing to the Hip-Hop culture, which contains numerous other factors related to forms of expression of an urban area, and in any case born in that environment, such as the MC-ing, Dj-ing or turntablism, and the break dance.

Some people think that the graffiti is wrong, especially if the boys do graffiti on important monuments in the city. In Italy in some cities is legal do this while in Argentina the Street Art is persecuted.

For me, graffiti should be present in all the cities because they give colour to them, all this without damaging the important monuments of course. Obviouslyb the text or graphics should not be boring but original.

Banksy

Banksy (Bristol, 1974 or 1975) is an English artist and writer.

It is one of the greatest exponents of street art. We know that he grew up in Bristol but his real identity is kept secret. His works are often satirical background and cover topics such as politics, culture and ethics. The technique I prefer for his works of guerrilla art has always been the stencil, which just with Banksy has arrived to collect an even greater success at street artists around the world. His stencils have been popping up just in Bristol, then in London, particularly in the areas to the northeast, and to follow in major European capitals, greatly not only on the walls of the streets, but also in unexpected places like the cages at the zoo in Barcelona.