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Senin, 07 Juni 2010

The A-Z of Graffiti Art – an art Show Featuring Duel

wild style
We went to the opening night of an art show, called ‘Letterheads', at Coppin Gallery, 49 Coppin St Richmond. It was a wild place, a massive warehouse type of place with wild graffiti works on the walls on the way in.Soon the room filled with people who made their way, literally, from A-Z of the innovative, often wonderful works of the graffiti artists featured. The works were largely hung in matching glass frames, giving a sense of uniformity but the styles of each of the 16 artists added remarkable contrast. Some played on their letter and what it might stand for, others made art out of the letter itself, showing off the art of lettering which is often the graffiti artists specialty. My brother, known in the graffiti art world as, had been given the letter ‘L’ to work on, and as one of the most experienced artists featured in the show, his work was among some of those most compelling in the show (sure, I’m his sister, but I seriously found his use of color really appealing). For those of you who imagine graffiti art as removed from contemporary artworks usually found in gallery exhibitions, this art show would have you think again. Duel has his own site complete with online galleries and graffiti shop.

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Different Types Of Alphabet Letters | Graffiti Fonts


Different types of alphabet letters. Graffiti Fonts. New Graffiti
alphabet is a set of standard letters - basic written symbols or graphemes - each of which roughly represents the phonemes in spoken language, both as it exists now or as in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic unit, and syllabaries, in which each character represents a syllable. Letters are classified according to how they indicate vowels:
  • The same way as consonants, as in Greece (true alphabet)
  • Abbreviation of consonants, as in Hindi (abugida)
  • Not at all, as in Phoenician (alphabetical)
The word "alphabet" came into Middle English from Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αλφάβητος Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the two first letters of the Greek alphabet [1.] Alpha and beta in turn came from the two first letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and meant ox and house respectively. There are dozens of letters that are currently used, the most common are Latin, [2] derived from the first true alphabet, Greece. [3] [4] Most of them are composed of lines (linear writing); exceptions are Braille, fingerspelling (Sign language), and Morse code. Via: Alphabet
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