Graffiti originated from New York during the 1960's. From 1960 to 1980, New York was a city that developed rapidly and passionately. However, there was a big gap between wealthy and poor. People who suffered from their lives began to paint on the wall...
Graffiti originated from New York during the 1960's. From 1960 to 1980, New York was a city that developed rapidly and passionately. However, there was a big gap between wealthy and poor. People who suffered from their lives began to paint on the wall with all kinds of color in order to unleash their despair and anger. In the recent development, Graffiti establishes itself in the mass culture by perfecting its unique aesthetic feature as well as forming a brand new genre. It is colorful, exaggerative, humorous, passionate and with a strong appeal.
Today’s graffiti is not simply an anti-moral behavior anymore, by its expansion from street art to various fields, cooperation between artists and inclusion of artist’s person style, graffiti becomes well known to general population. Both LV’s graffiti fashion accessories and Swatch’s graffiti limited edition watches are very popular. Hongik University’s graffiti plays an important role in popular art, but by far, there is no research about graffiti in Korea. People don’t understand the concept and classification of graffiti. The author starts this study from the expression and types of graffiti, hoping that graffiti could make people’s life more joyful.
Through this research, graffiti art contains the nature of people express their emotion and mutual exchange. At the same time because of the public personality and originality of the development of cognition, coupled with the game of the performance form, area and the development of the times situation unifies, creatively performance art and interesting features accept by the public. In order to the development of graffiti art, we should do the further research such as create the new technique on the basis of pubilic taste for the form of expression and methods whether it is in the field of visual design or public art. As a street art, the manifestation of graffiti art are varied. It is also play a big part in the process of marketing as a visual design way. A good example is the limited-edition products which would be the case for the further research.