![]() ![]() View from the Broadway Junction elevated station of the l-train, Brooklyn 1983. One could argue that the origins of writing itself are found in graffiti. The origins of visual communication lay in these prehistoric drawings. The depictions they left behind are amongst our most valuable insights into how they lived. Most of all it displayed not only the ability to understand the value of carrying information forward into the future but also man's unique desire to communicate with eachother & with higher powers be they nature, god, the universe or thier ancestors. ![]() The complex and abstract concepts of prehistoric graffiti clearly illustrate the ability of early man to understand & describe their environment. like an ancient spearpoint which took days to produce, graffiti provides clear evidence that early humans could make sacrifice in the present in service of the future. Graffiti provides some of our earliest evidence of human consciousness. Prehistoric artwork, sometimes very sophisticated, from the walls of caves is one of our oldest & most important ties to the cultural origins of human socienty. Next to masterful relief carvings & finely inscribed text you'll find graffiti scratched, chiseled & written for much the same reasons that it is today. Unauthorized, millenia-old scratchings can be found on on the surfaces of the most ancient ruins of civilization. In it's basic definition "graffiti" predates the written word & can describe markings seen throughout human history. The word is not specific to the modern art form of Graffiti that emerged & coalesced from a combination of 1960's & 70's street culture along-side east coast Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, street gang culture & even earlier zoot suit & cholo culture on the west coast. This simple term "graffiti", plural for "graffito" mearly describes unauthorized or unofficial markings on a surface. The origins of writing are found in graffiti.Īs long as there have been people, there has been graffiti. On the right the images show ancient Greek graffiti on the temples of Philae & Dendur in Egypt. The images on the left show some of the many prehistoric paintings from Lascaux cave in France. ![]()
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