The first roots of graffiti began to appear in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the late 1960s, when a couple of young people began tagging corn bread and cool earl all over town until almost everywhere you saw corn bread and cool earl written on it. on the walls and windows of trains. etc. Soon this radical form of expression known as the art of graffiti captured the attention of the community and the local press.

A few years later, after the Cornbread and Cool Earl movement, it was noticed that many graffiti artists were slowly appearing on the streets of Manhattan, but it was not until the year 1971 that the New York Times published an article about a young graffiti artist. the name of TAKI 183, a boy who had traveled all over the city capturing everyone’s attention due to the fact that you would literally see his name tagged all over the city.

Taki 183 was employed as a foot courier and often moved around and dumped around town, something he took advantage of by tagging his name everywhere he would be on walls, trains, windows, cars, etc. But while he was the first graffiti artist to be recognized for his art, he wasn’t the first to start writing in New York, where many others before him. But his fame opened the doors to many other young artists who would emerge from the streets of New York.

Soon enough, graffiti art became a way for young children to express themselves by tagging their names on walls or trains using anything from paint markers, spray paints, etc. Little by little, the art of graffiti began to move from the streets to the underground and until it became very competitive. that graffiti artist would write their names as many times as possible.

After a graffiti artist discovered that they could paint on trains by sneaking into train yards. something that lessened the possibility of being caught, so they began to work more on detailed pieces called bombs or bombing, a popular form of graffiti that still exists today.

Once the trains started showing up with many kinds of colors and tagging the community started protesting and the trains were cleaned up every time someone painted them after the graffiti artists realized there was no point in painting them they stopped and they moved the art back to the streets where it has remained to date.

But graffiti did not stay only in New York or Philadelphia, it quickly caught the attention of many boys and girls from all over the world from one continent to another. Today graffiti is well established in many of the most popular cities and each and every city contains its own unique style of graffiti art.