First Graffiti Tag
A graffiti writer s tag is his or her personalized signature.
First graffiti tag. In 1965 darryl cornbread mccray now widely considered the world s first modern graffiti artist was a 12 year old troublemaker housed at philadelphia s youth development center ydc. But leave a little bit of space between the edge of the marker and your new pencil line. As you may have guessed mccray loved cornbread. 1977 to 1980 marks the point in graffiti history that the legendary jean michel basquiat first came to the public attention with his samo graffiti on the streets.
Tagging is often the example given when opponents of graffiti refer to any acts of handstyle graffiti writing it is by far the most common form of graffiti. Tags can contain subtle and sometimes cryptic messages and may incorporate the artist s crew initials or other letters. Vesuvius in 79 c e. The first use of the term the first time the term graffiti was ever used was back in 1851 in a reference to ancient inscriptions that were etched into the walls like scratches of the pompeii ruins in italy.
So your first task is it to trace the edges of the lines with a pencil.