Hip-Hop Culture: The Graffiti Art And Pop Culture

It began in the 1980s, known as the gold age of graffiti. Everything started with a wild style that used decorative lettering combined with images and icons from a popular culture to create a complex composition. Graffiti art was connected with the hip-hop culture, which included rap music, break dancing, and disc jockeys. This culture attracted a lot of attention in New York magazines, movies, and films like the movie “Break In” which helped the society have a better understanding of this culture. Many graffiti artists became very well known at the time. Hip-hop had become accepted in the United States and worldwide making the graffiti culture appear in commercials and advertisements of Sprite and Nike. Marketing strategies started targeting young people with the whole notion of the graffiti culture as an artistic way to approach to the young generation. Graffiti is very criticized and still an unacceptable kind of art for some people. The most used media is spray paint cans, for the reason that is easy to transport, works great outside, and dries fast …show more content…
Private graffiti is divided into two categories, Doodling and Latrinalia. Doodling are scribbles without meaning or form. Which fits perfectly with the adolescent’s way of thinking because their thoughts can change quickly without an alert. Latrinalia is a type of private graffiti done inside public bathrooms and different small public areas. This specific kind of marking started by slaves working in construction and prisoners in jail cells sending secret messages to one another privately as in code. It’s done by people of all ages equally but nowadays it’s very common to see it in school and public bathrooms making it become a major vandalism