Graffiti Grapher Notes

• When people think of graffiti they don't think of math and that is what many artist use to create their artwork. The use math concepts like geometry. 
• Graffiti isn't really appreciated by many out side of the hip hop world because it is done illegally and on property. 
• A person who does graffiti usually does it express emotion or send a message. Because graffiti is illegal most people who do graffiti keep their identity a secret. 
• Graffiti goes back all the way to ancient Rome, but the kind we see today came from New York in 1960's on subway trains.
• Because everyone wanted to be famous for their graffiti it  became very popular and the amount of graffiti on trains were overwhelming.
• Spray cans were then used to tag trains because it was easier and quicker. It also allowed larger pieces of graffiti to be created. 
• The graffiti writers would have "Style Wars" those who because most famous would create the largest most complex pieces that were different from everyone else's. This cause many big graffiti artist to appoint minor artists as apprentices. 
• The Golden Age of graffiti happened during the 70's and as a result of the enormous amounts of graffiti barbed wires guard dogs and police where now in effect to try and stop the artist from "vandalism." 
• Graffiti gave many poor children a way to express themselves and show society that they do have talent. Because many of the graffiti artist did come form the ghetto they had motivation and the desire to accomplish something so they put a lot of time and hard work into graffiti. 
• In the 80's the amount of graffiti decreased because the security was increasing. Trains with a lot of graffiti were taken off the rails