Art: Graffiti

1. Art: Graffiti By: Angela Yuhas, Edson Rivera, and Araceli Palacios

2. Objective: To learn how to draw your name in graffiti. • Instructions: Student will work individually. • Activity: Students will draw their own name in Graffiti. • Assessment: How much the student paid attention and their effort on drawling. • Sunshine State Standard: uses two-dimensional and three dimensional media, techniques, tools and processes to communicate and idea or concept based on research, environment, personal experience, observation or imagination.

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5. Vocabulary you need to know: • Art: intended primarily for purposes other than utility any of the art forms such as sculptures. • Medium: materials such as oils, watercolors etc. used to create artwork; category of art such as drawing or painting. • Subject: thing represented in artwork, such as people, buildings trees etc. • Traditional: works that have style, subject matter that is familiar to the public as art. • Abstract: describing an artwork based on identifiable, few or no details. • Tag : a tag is an artist’s personal stylized signature

6. The history of graffiti: • Graffiti was used primarily by political activists to make statements and street gangs to mark territory • The history of the underground art movement known by many names, most commonly termed graffiti begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the mid to late 1960s.The writers who are credited for their graffiti are CORNBREAD and COOL EARL. • Graffiti art is often considered vandalism because most of the time, the property’s owner is not consulted about the art administration.