Everyone knows what graffiti is. It’s a writing or drawing usually sprayed on the wall in a public...

Everyone knows what graffiti is. It’s

a writing or drawing usually sprayed on the wall in a public

place. It’s illictly.

WHAT IS GRAFFITI?

In the antiquity people were writing on the walls. People started to call it „graffiti” in the 1960s and 1970s.

HISTORY OF GRAFFITI

In Poland people were drawing on the walls during the war. In this way they wanted to

show that they’re still fighting.

HISTORY OF GRAFFITI

It means „Fighting Poland”

Now, for making a graffiti on someone’s property you can go to prison. But it is really

hard to catch the culprit.

HISTORY OF GRAFFITI

FORMS OF GRAFFITI

STYLE WRITING (TAG)It’s the most popular form of graffiti. When someone writes letters on the wall it is style

writing.

It is when people scratch a wrting on the glass or plastic using rocks or knifes.

SCRATCHING

STREET ART

FAMOUS GRAFFITI ARTISTS

He’s a british street artist, but nobody knows his real name and appearance. With his paintings

he shows what’s wrong in the world.

BANKSY

WATTTSWATTS is a graffiti

and street artist from Paris. He

attempts to give a sense of

relationship between his art

and its public street structure.

JAZHe usually paints animals or people, using

simple materials.

So, is graffiti an art or vandalism? What do you

think?

THANKS FOR WATCHING

Aneta Szymańska and Iga Pawlak