Art that refused to be acknowledged

• Graffiti appeared already in the ancient times. In cities like Pompeii or Kairo it was commom to write some political or personal opinion. (extract 1)
• The word means drawings, markings, patterns, scribbles or messages that are painted, written or carved on a wall or surface. Even the ancient cave-paintings can be described as graffities.
• Modern graffiti art originated in New York City in the 1960s.(extract 2)
• ‘New York Style' as it was called in that time, appaered in writings made with markers by teens on the subway cars. These writings called tags were seen everywhere.
• There are many types of the graffities but not all of them can be described as art. For example, tag can be identified as an old statement just like ‘ I was here' , that shows that the writer is active and continuing to rock. (extract 3)
• After the spraypaint had been discovered, it separeted the taggers from the real artists.Tag became a part of an......

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