Many city councils complain about the high cost of cleaning graffiti off buildings, buses and trains. Many street artists have been stopped by the police and some have had to pay fines. Is graffiti art or vandalism? This depends on your point of view, but in many countries, writing or painting on public or private property is considered vandalism. In South America, many street artists went to work in poor areas adding colour, life and beauty to grey, city walls.
Other street artists were more concerned with producing beautiful, attractive work. Some artists wanted to make political points and produced art that tried to make people think about war, inequality and discrimination. In the 1990s, graffiti continued but there was also an explosion in street art around the world. The trend spread and from the 1970s, aerosol paint graffiti became a common sight on trains, buses and walls in cities around the world. Their tags were bigger, more colourful and took more time and imagination than the simple, pen-written tags. Later on, some teenagers started writing tags with aerosol paints. Soon, New York's walls, buses and subway trains were covered with tags: Barbara 62, Joe 182. Other teenagers noticed Demetrius's tag and started to write their own. When the subway train stopped at a station, he would jump off, write his tag on the wall and then jump back on before the doors closed. Then he started tagging in subway stations on the way to and from school. At first, he wrote his tag on walls in his neighbourhood. TAKI was his nickname and 183 was the number of the street he lived on – 183rd Street. One of the first 'taggers' was Demetrius, a teenager from a Greek family. In the 1970s, young people in New York used pens to write their names, or 'tags', on walls around the city. In the late twentieth century, graffiti and street art became an international phenomenon. These include religious, political and romantic messages, and even some magic spells! Modern times In the Roman town of Pompeii, archaeologists have found numerous examples of graffiti written in Latin. Graffiti has been found on buildings at ancient sites in Greece, Italy, Syria and Iraq. In prehistoric times, people in Africa and Europe used to paint pictures of animals and people in caves. People have been painting and writing on walls throughout history.
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