Graffiti is writings, drawings or marks made on walls in public places. In most cases, it is often mixture of writing and pictures, usually (mark) with a tag, which is unique an artist or a group. Graffiti is now popular all over the world.
Graffiti is believed to become popular in the United States in the 1960s. Young adults in cities like New York would use paint to spray their tag on walls., New Yorkers used to see graffiti as something (disturb). Up to the 1970s, most people hated graffiti and painting graffiti was illegal and graffiti artists (punish) by fines.
Later, the image of graffiti and graffiti artists changed a lot and graffiti was no longer only found in the subways or the poor areas of cities but also in the (gallery) of Manhattan art world. In the late 1980s the popularity of hip-hop music helped to spread the culture of graffiti, first at home in the United States and then (international).
Recently, graffiti (gain) the reputation of “street art” and it has become a movement expressing the street culture of young people. You can even find graffiti in places you least expect to see it-in advertisements, on clothes, on toys and even in newspapers.
