Modern graffiti began in Philadelphia in the 1960s after the death of jazz musician Charlie Parker. In the 1970s, the center of graffiti culture shifted to New York City as writers like TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 began using their street numbers in their tags and bombing subway trains, allowing their work to spread across the city. Street artists challenge definitions of art by situating their work in non-art contexts and questioning the existing environment in its own language rather than aiming to change what art is.

1. Jo Lowes

2.  Modern graffiti began
in Philadelphia, in the
1960s.Shortly after the
death of the jazz
player Charlie Parker
(nicknamed "Yardbird"
or "Bird")

3.  Around 1970-71 the
center of graffiti culture
shifted from Philadelphia
to NewYork City, around
Washington Heights,
where writers such as
TAKI 183 andTracy 168
started to gain media
attention.Using a naming
convention in which they
would add their street
number to their
nickname, they
"bombed" a train with
their work, letting the
subway take it
throughout the city.

4.  Artists have challenged art by situating it in
non-art contexts. Street artists do not aspire
to change the definition of an artwork, but
rather to question the existing environment
with its own language.

5.  Criminal Damage
 Cost of clean up
 Makes an area look
intimidating
 Personal hurt and upset
 Pic Right is theVietnam
war memorial

11.  AndyWarhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel
Basquiat….
 But is it the new pop art?
 Yes Street art is accessible and rejects the
high brown
 But AndyWarhol and Lichtenstein celebrated
modernity where as Banksy seems to despise
it.