It also involves the spraying, painting or scratching of words or images on buildings, bridges, streets, trains, trams, subways, and even monuments.
Traditional graffiti includes artwork, stencil graffiti or sticker art. Like all hobbies, this street art has its own language, some of which can be difficult to comprehend. But still it is considered to be a humorous or critical artistic expression.
Historically, street art always existed in the form of graffiti on walls. What usually started by writing and drawing on the public walls of urban spaces to spread social messages has today become a medium to beautify cities. Graffiti has long been a part of human history but it wasn’t until the emergence of the hip-hop culture that it began to gain recognition as an art form around the globe including India.
India is no stranger to graffiti culture. Graffiti has always been a part of Indian social lives. In India there are two types of graffiti — creative and defacing. In the creative type, graffiti is considered an art that is used to bring to life the walls of the city using vibrant colours and joyous concepts.
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