Initially graffiti artists often used either their real names or nicknames,but soon the first pseudonyms started to appear. The glut of new graffiti artists brandishing their names across the whole city inspired writers to find new ways to make their work stand out. Tags got bigger and bigger until the first "pieces" ( short for masterpieces) appaeared on New York trains. Many artists sought recognition, either by spray - painting the most trains or the best pieces. Stencil and street artist, meanwhile, wanted to communicate with the passer- by or shape their enviroment without any constraints.
Seen, Lee, Dondi ( RIP), Stayhigh 149, Zephyr, Blade and Iz the Wiz became heroes through the sheer quantity and quality of their work. Artists initially targeted trains because they often travelled through the whole city and were seen by millions of people. By the mid - 1980s, it was claimed, there was not a single train that had not at one time been spray- painted from top to bottom.
This changed in around 1986, when the New York authorities took steps to protect their property from graffiti by putting up fences around station yards and buffing trains regularly. However, it was only really with the arrival of hip-hop that European graffiti scene took off. The majority of graffiti in Europe was based on the American model, wich remains the most popular to this day. With hip-hop, graffiti entered almost every Western and Western - influenced country and the started to edge out further afield. Asia and South America Caught on later , but their graffiti culture is now growing at a phenomenal rate and has already reached a high standard, particularly in South America.
Iz the Wiz
Referencias
- Ganz, Nicholas. (2004). Graffiti World Street Art From Five Continents.New York. Editorial. Abrahms. p.9.
- The telegraph.In the wiz,zero cool gallery. Recuperado el 22 de julio de 2011, de http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5614060/Iz-the-Wiz.html
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