First Certificate Exam A- Citizenship Today
The Wall
Blanco Ferreira, Ana Clara
The Know How of Graffiti
Graffiti is the revolutionary art of the last century. This art has the advantage that it can be seen in every city, it is an open form of art that includes everyone into the culture. A lot of people criticize this kind of art, and they do not appreciate the effort made by the artist to create an artwork.
Most graffiti painters prefer to paint at night because during the daytime they could have problems with the police. However, some artists paint during the day but they run the risk of being arrested.
The most common way of doing graffiti is drawing a sketch on paper first and then copyingiton a white wall. This method is more risky than other methods because it requires a lot of time.
Another way of doing graffiti very easily is with stencils. A lot of graffiti artists, like Banksy, use this method to repeat an image in more than one place and to make it exactly the same painting. Stencil can make an artist be recognizable because the image is all over the city and the people can identifyit. The materials used for stencil paintings are radiographies and sprays.