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Reference

Ganz,Nicholas.(2004) Graffiti World: Street art from five continents. New York: H.N. Abrams

Annotation

This is an art writing by Ganz Nicholas is based on graffiti evolution. She talks about different graffiti form around, and she shares her thoughts on them. She elaborates on worldwide history of graffiti, the here and now, The Americas, Europe and the rest of the world.

I found her opinion really interesting on how graffiti came about, she quotes “ Graffiti has been around since the beginning of mankind, pictures, such as those at the Lascux caves in France, were mostly carved in to the caves walls with bone or stones”. I found this really interesting, because it makes me look at graffiti in a different was, I think of graffiti now as a form of art evolution.  I see it as it’s something that us humans develop and it’s where our creative thinking started. I also think its amusing because graffiti is something invented before we came up with the idea of having wheels.

She also quotes n the development of technique of graffiti art  “early man also anticipated the stencil and spray technique, blowing coloured powder through hallow bones around his hand to make silhouettes”.  I thought that this was cool, The fact that us humans have developed such ideas in the early ages amazed me, makes me wonder about the art world, us humans have always had cleaver and creative ideas the only different is the materials we used.