"Graffiti is a crime"
"Graffiti is a crime"
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"The graffiti on the trains looked like NYC in 1979, nothing original 38 years later, sad." -Utopian.
With all respect I don't think so. early 80s styles look nothing like that. I think the best source is subway art from Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, 1984.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/97069/…But true there is a trend in graffiti which consists in imitating 70s style. It holds true to many other fields like fashion or even graphics.
The great thing about seeing it today is that it reminds you that those guys back then came up with styles when there was nothing out there. We may see graffiti writers who borrow styles from that period as a 'tribute' to them rather than just copying styles. Because no matter what, we know the sources.