Essay: Willem de Kooning and Wildstyle – News – 12ozProphet.com

Most movements in all the arts go through this progression. In graffiti it happened within a mere five to ten years, because of the immediacy and speed of the subways to share the work with a whole city of young artists the very next day after it was created. There were no studio visits to schedule, no galleries to organize shows, no hiding the work from prying eyes. It was in your face the day after the artist painted it. This sped up the process of transition towards complexity.

 

 

The Feral Diagram illustrates these connections with a 2-D info-graphic, charting the revolutionary change in Fine Art History as Graffiti and Street Art became the most relevant movement(s) throughout the world, as evidenced by their popularity and influence. As time has passed, because of the successes of the Pop Art movement as well which allowed for the acceptance of the movement into the art world in the first place, Graffiti and Street Art have continued to grow in acceptance and popularity, becoming the most relevant movement of the late twentieth century and at the start of the new millennium.