Editing Graffiti (section)

=== Modern ===
Modern graffiti style has been heavily influenced by [[hip hop culture]]<ref name="genius-paul-edwards-hiphopbook">{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=Paul |date=10 February 2015 |title=Is Graffiti Really An Element Of Hip-Hop? (book excerpt) |url=https://genius.com/Paul-edwards-is-graffiti-really-an-element-of-hip-hop-book-excerpt-annotated |access-date=23 August 2018 |work=The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music}}</ref> and started with young people in 1960s and 70s in [[New York City]] and [[Philadelphia]]. [[Tag (graffiti)|Tags]] were the first form of stylised contemporary graffiti, starting with artists like [[TAKI 183]] and [[Cornbread (graffiti artist)|Cornbread]]. Later, artists began to paint throw-ups and [[Piece (graffiti)|pieces]] on trains on the sides of subway trains.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Graffiti art |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/graffiti-art |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref> and eventually moved into the city after the NYC metro began to buy new trains and paint over graffiti.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Snyder |first=Gregory J. |date=2006-04-01 |title=Graffiti media and the perpetuation of an illegal subculture |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1741659006061716 |journal=Crime, Media, Culture|language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=93–101 |doi=10.1177/1741659006061716 |s2cid=144911784 |issn=1741-6590}}</ref>

While the art had many advocates and appreciators—including the cultural critic [[Norman Mailer]]—others, including New York City mayor [[Ed Koch]], considered it to be defacement of public property, and saw it as a form of public blight.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=The history of graffiti |url=https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/b2-reading/history-graffiti |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org |language=en}}</ref> While those who did early modern graffiti called it "writing",  [[The Faith of Graffiti|the 1974 essay "The Faith of Graffiti"]] referred to it using the term "graffiti", which stuck.<ref name=":02"/>

An early graffito outside of New York or Philadelphia was the inscription in London reading "[[Clapton is God]]" in reference to the guitarist [[Eric Clapton]]. Creating the cult of the guitar hero, the phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in [[Islington]], north London, in the autumn of 1967.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hann |first1=Michael |date=12 June 2011 |title=Eric Clapton creates the cult of the guitar hero |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/12/eric-clapton |url-status=live |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311172627/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/12/eric-clapton |archive-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> The graffito was captured in a photograph, in which a dog is [[Urine marking#Canidae|urinating on the wall]].<ref>{{cite news |last=McCormick |first=Neil |date=24 July 2015 |title=Just how good is Eric Clapton? |work=The Telegraph |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/11501274/Just-how-good-is-Eric-Clapton.html |url-status=live |access-date=3 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124071909/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/11501274/Just-how-good-is-Eric-Clapton.html |archive-date=24 November 2017}}</ref>

Films like [[Style Wars]] in the 80s depicting famous writers such as Skeme, [[DONDI|Dondi]], MinOne, and [[Zephyr (artist)|ZEPHYR]] reinforced graffiti's role within New York's emerging hip-hop culture. Although many officers of the New York City Police Department found this film to be controversial, Style Wars is still recognized as the most prolific film representation of what was going on within the young hip hop culture of the early 1980s.<ref name=labonte>Labonte, Paul. All City: The book about taking space. Toronto. ECW Press. 2003</ref> Fab{{nbsp}}5 Freddy and Futura 2000 took hip hop graffiti to Paris and London as part of the New York City Rap Tour in 1983.<ref name=hershk>David Hershkovits, "London Rocks, Paris Burns and the B-Boys Break a Leg", ''Sunday News Magazine'', 3 April 1983.</ref>