Have you ever wondered why some graffiti remains forever as part of the city while other graffiti is quickly removed? Is it the quality, the artist or the message? There are many reasons that some graffiti remains while others are quickly painted over or washed off.
Remember when you were young and graffiti was sloppy spray painted words than were often illegible? Somewhere along the way that passed and graffiti opened the doors to a colorful artistic world. People were able to express themselves in ways that may not have been imaginable in the past. What started out as aimless scribbles has become an expression of art, that though not everyone will get it or like it, it’s still art and it’s still valued and appreciated by many.
With this first post I thought it would be fitting to take a look back at the man that is considered the Godfather of American Graffiti. There were two famous graffiti artist before Cornbread (Kill Roy and Bird) though it was Cornbread that brought graffiti into the modern world.
