{"id":68043,"date":"2022-04-29T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=68043"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:18:57","slug":"graffiti-angels-found-on-building-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/graffiti-angels-found-on-building-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti angels found on building in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=300vh src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eds1xcrnmUs?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>These graffiti angels are seen on building in New York City. These angel tags are found all over the city. Graffiti artists have a fascination with the world of religion, but their pieces aren&#8217;t consistent with their religious images. These angels are white-washed over by new graffiti art.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Art Graffiti is a kind of art that is seen in New York City and is used by graffiti artists to express themselves. There&#8217;s no one correct way to draw an angel, so each artist has a different image of what these angels look like. An angel is usually an image linked to heaven and there are many different representations of them in art and culture.<\/p>\n<p>These angels were created by many different graffiti writers throughout the years, but they didn&#8217;t intend it to be a religious statement or anything like that. They were just drawing something they saw when they looked at the buildings in New York City. That&#8217;s why they drew these graffiti angels on walls and other places in the city because they could see from really far away that there was a wall or building that could be used as a canvas for their art.*<\/p>\n<p>Angelic graffiti is an art form. It has a long history and its own genre. Angelic graffiti is to graffiti as the angel statue on top of the Christmas tree is to a plastic angel pin. This blog will cover the history of angelic graffiti and present relevant art.<\/p>\n<p>Artists were tagging angels in New York City for at least ten years before the NYPD finally declared it illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Angelic graffiti has been seen all over the world, from South America to Europe to Asia, but most of this blog&#8217;s content will come from New York City and California.<\/p>\n<p>Claims that angelic graffiti was started by one person or another are false; it was practiced in many places simultaneously. As with other forms of graffiti, it was done mostly by young people who learned about it from older kids who had moved up from subway and freight train hopping. Angels were not just allowed on trains, but encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest train angels seem to date from the mid-1960s on the BMT Canarsie line and IRT West Side line in Manhattan, as well as on Long Island Rail Road lines into Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal (GCT). Transit police began destroying them in early 1967\u2014which is when they came to be known as &#8220;graffiti angels<\/p>\n<p>Art is part of the human identity. It has always been part of our existence and it will be there till the end of human race. The graffiti art was initiated by humans and it was not in any way related to any religion or religious beliefs. These graffiti angels can be found on various kinds of places like walls, bridges and buildings throughout the world. These are usually kind of signatures or tags that indicate the presence of someone at that particular place.<\/p>\n<p>The architecture of these angels ranges from a simple shape drawn to represent wings to a fully detailed design. Some have noticeable facial features while some have no nose or eyes at all. The most interesting thing about these angels is that they are not confined to just one style but there are several styles in which these angels have been created. Some graffiti artists use spray paints, some use markers and others even use chalks to draw their work.<\/p>\n<p>This article will tell you more about these graffiti angels and how they were originated and also about some amazing examples of such artworks all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Angel art is a new phenomenon, spreading worldwide. It began as an idea in New York City and has since spread to the rest of the United States and even to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;angel art&#8221; was first used by John Perreault, the man who helped start it all by stenciling an angel on a building in Greenwich Village in New York City. The idea spread quickly and soon people were seeing angel stencils on walls everywhere, including in large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, as well as smaller cities like Washington DC, Philadelphia and Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Tattooed angels are also being drawn on people&#8217;s skin all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>This site was created to collect photos of this global phenomenon and to help people know where they can find angels nearby and help them decide what they think about it. If you have information or photos you would like to contribute, please do so!<\/p>\n<p>The photos here are marked with the locations of where they were taken if that information is known. If you have information about the location of any photo that does not include a location or if you know where any photo was taken but don&#8217;t see it listed here, please email me at: angelartinfo@gmail.com .<\/p>\n<p>You may also<\/p>\n<p>The location of the angels is also significant. The buildings that bear their images are, for the most part, warehouses and factories and other places where people worked. Many of them have now been abandoned or knocked down, but some are still used. They are not tourist attractions. They are found in neighborhoods where people actually live and work. This suggests that the artists saw themselves as making a statement about their own communities, not just creating pieces to be viewed as isolated works of art.*<\/p>\n<p>Tagging has become so ingrained in New York culture that it is hard to remember what an odd sight it was when it first started appearing around town in the early seventies. In a lot of ways graffiti was an extreme version of the kind of thing kids had always done with spray paint: writing your name on a wall was just an extension of drawing on your notebook or desk at school. And tagging was only one small part of a larger explosion in public art that included subway drawings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Charles Gatewood&#8217;s photos documenting life in the city&#8217;s tenements, and a proliferation of community mural projects.<\/p>\n<p>But tagging was different because it was anonymous, which took it out of the realm of art into something more like political protest or performance art<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, angels appear. They are spray-painted on blank walls and fences.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different kinds of angels. In one image, the angel is a white outline, like a paper cutout pasted there. In another, the angel has a red robe, hand-colored with marker pen. In another, the angel is a black outline spray painted onto a yellow brick wall. And so on.<\/p>\n<p>As you walk around New York City, you see more and more of them: here in Brooklyn&#8217;s Bushwick neighborhood; there in Park Slope; on Manhattan&#8217;s Lower East Side and Upper West Side; in Maspeth, Queens; in Washington Heights \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Who makes them? What do they mean? How did this art form start?<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti artists are always looking for new surfaces to work on. They find walls covered in posters and decide to do something different. They find dirty walls and decide to make them clean. They find a wall with a mural on it, and another graffiti artist&#8217;s tag on it, and decide to take the tag off.<\/p>\n<p>Tagging is about putting your mark on the world. Graffiti artists don&#8217;t usually think of themselves as artists, but still they&#8217;re always looking for blank canvases. And sometimes they put up murals: big pieces that you can see from far away, like billboards.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti art isn&#8217;t just a way for people to communicate with each other. It&#8217;s also about making the world more interesting, one wall at a time.<iframe width=\"100%\"\" height=300vh src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZfYkd6_Kdno?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These graffiti angels are seen on building in New York City. These angel tags are found all over the city. Graffiti artists have a fascination with the world of religion, but their pieces aren&#8217;t consistent with their religious images. These angels are white-washed over by new graffiti art. 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