The pictorial art also appears in the hip-hop culture and it is called Graffiti. It is called graffiti to various forms of inscription or painting, usually on street furniture. In the language of hip-hop graffiti is the result of paiting texts on walls in a freely, creative and unlimited way. Its purpose is to express and disseminate thoughts, feelings, ideals and social criticisms where it essence is to change and evolve looking for being a visual attractive and with a high impact. In this way it try to be a revolutionary and rebellious urban movement, specially for the hip-hop culture where it started. At the begining graffiti was usually done spontaneously, fast and in public places, but nowadays the graffiti can be done in complete walls of a building and can take days or weeks to finish them. The people who do this kind of art are called graffiti writers. If you look a graffiti when you are walking for the street you are going to notice that the person who made this piece of art never sign with his or her real name. These people use a tag to sign the graffiti. The tag is a nickname of the graffiti writers with the idea of staying anonymous because graffiti is illegal. So, to leave their own names would be a mistake because of the police could take them to jail. Graffiti have had a great evolution from the begining because of the quality of the paintings and techniques have improved and there also exists new ones.
"12 brillos crew" is a group of graffiti writers from Chile and here goes a video with a graffiti done on "planeta graff 2011" (Santiago, Chile)
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