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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands) [1] George Lee Quiñones (born 1960) [1] is a Puerto Rican artist and actor. [3] Quiñones rose to prominence by creating massive New York City subway car graffiti that carried his moniker "LEE". His style is rooted in popular culture and often with political messages.
Graffiti began appearing around New York City with the words "Bird Lives" [1] but after that, it took about a decade and a half for graffiti to become noticeable in NYC. So, around 1970 or 1971, TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 started to gain notoriety for their frequent vandalism. [2] Using a naming convention in which they would add their street ...
IZ was prominently featured in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. [8] His work, which appeared in the book Subway Art, has been credited with inspiring European graffiti in particular; Martin's piece Hell IZ for Children became influential in Europe where the use of his tag to form a sentence and his freeform style has been incorporated and adapted by contemporary graffiti artists.
SAMO is a graffiti tag originally used on the streets of New York City from 1978 to 1980. The tag, written with a copyright symbol as "SAMO©", and pronounced Same-Oh, is primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was originally developed as a collaboration between Basquiat and Al Diaz. The SAMO tag accompanied short phrases ...
Website. www.tatscru.biz. Tats Cru is a group of Bronx -based graffiti artists turned professional muralists. [3] The current members of Tats Cru are Bio, BG183, Nicer, HOW and NOSM. Tats Cru were founded by Brim, Bio, BG183 and Nicer. Over the last two decades, Tats Cru has produced various advertisements for clients ranging from neighborhood ...
Nationality. American. Known for. Graffiti, Spray paint art. Movement. Street art, Abstract art. Website. futuralaboratories.com. Leonard Hilton McGurr (born November 17, 1955), known as Futura, and formerly known as Futura 2000, [1] is an American contemporary artist [2] and former graffiti artist. [3][4][5]
Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s is a reorganization of a dissertation by the late Jack Stewart, a New York artist who photographed the beginnings of New York graffiti and eventually befriended many of the writers. . . .
Richard Mirando, known as Seen, is an American graffiti artist. [1][2] He is one of the best known graffiti artists in the world and has been referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti. [1] Seen first started to paint on the New York City Subway system in 1973. [1] He was born in the Bronx, New York City.