Graffiti : An Ancient Art - Modern Era Graffiti Types

 

Graffiti

Graffiti is an art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within the public view. The roots of Graffiti meet the ancient Egypt, Greece and even Roman Empire.

Basically, it is a type of an art and artists want to show their art work to the public on street walls etc... But in most of the countries this is a controversial art type and there is no permission to do it on walls as it leads violation the rights of property owners and vandalism.

Despite of all this still Graffiti is present in the modern era and in this era of modern graffiti have many faces such as Hip hop, folk epigraphy, latrilania, scratchiti, stencil and gang. Lets explain all these types one by one.

Hip hop Graffiti

Hip hop is so famous in modern graffiti that it has several subtypes such as tag, throw up, piece and slag. 

• Tag:  A “tag” is often difficult to read and is applied using one color. The scribble acts as a kind of nickname or persona that is consistent to the tagger. The purpose of tagging is for taggers leave their mark or to stake their territory.

• Throw up:  A “throw up” is similar to a tag – the only difference is that it is applied using two or three colors and has a more three-dimensional (3D) appearance.

• Piece: A “piece,” or a masterpiece, is a more elaborate version of a “throw up.” It is often larger in size, multi-colored, multi-dimensional and artistic.

• Slag: A “slap tag” is a small sticker that has been previously tagged and is applied quickly and easily to a surface.

Folk epigraphy

“Folk epigraphy” is a type of “rite of passage” messaging system. For example, “Jane loves Billy” or “I was here.” This type of graffiti often has a focused audience, is non-intrusive, transient and has a limited recurrence.

Latrinalia Graffiti

This type refers to graffiti that is applied in washrooms/latrines. Often, this takes shape as limericks or rhymes, and sometimes as slander.

Scratchiti Graffiti

This is a type of graffiti that has been scratched into a surface instead of being applied by paint, crayon or marker.

Stencil Graffiti

Stencil graffiti is associated with stencil art. It is meant to communicate an idea or emotion.

Gang Graffiti

Gangs use graffiti to establish a symbol of unity, demarcate boundaries, memorialize or recruit. It is easier to read than hip hop and sometimes makes threats, is meant to extort, or shows disrespect to other gangs.

But as we earlier said that these types of art is prohibited to exhibit in most countries in real life so people are searching for alternatives so they can practice their talent. So the software engineers try to provide solutions to such users who want to make graffiti arts legally. The mobile application developers provide them such applications where they can create such arts as much as they want without the tension of any violation of any law.

Now a days there are lots of applications for Graffiti art is available at the Apple stores and Play stores,  but here we are helping you to choose one of the best application for your iPhones and iPads. "Graffiti Creator: Draw Text" helps to design, text and name decoration with graffiti style. Graffiti art maker with graffiti stickers and filters design graffiti wallpapers.

Graffiti Creator: Draw Text

The Graffiti maker application has several mind blowing features which are following:

Photo Graffiti Wallpapers

• Graffiti app has a collection of graffiti wallpapers to be placed as a background to create graffiti art work to enhance cool text appearance.
• User can adjust gallery photo as a sticker for graffiti art drawing.

Stickers for Graffiti Art

Graffiti maker tool has different categories of graffiti stickers; art, urban, quote, alphabets, and numerical stickers to design graffiti art.

Name Creator - Design Text

• Graffiti name art creator writes text on Graffiti keyboard and designs, artistic style names with various text font styles.
• Graffiti style editor offers users to apply different colors of cool text and different graffiti style.
• Graffiti art maker has a friendly user interface, it is easy to create graffiti art design text on graffiti designer.

Filters for Decoration

• Graffiti art adds amazing filters for name decoration and glorifying graffiti wallpaper.
• The Graffiti maker tool uses different color collection to beautify the name picture graffiti wallpaper.

Signature Drawing

Graffiti designer adds signatures on the photo graffiti to signify your designed text art.

Graffiti Logo Name Maker

Graffiti logo maker with name art create logo name by applying graffity features.

Graffiti Art Maker

Graffiti app turn text into images and the lets user to save and share designed graffiti wallpaper with name art.

You can easily get Graffiti Maker on your iPhones and iPads from the Apple Store by clicking here. Get it now