graffiti

     

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is use as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted vandalism.

Trivia about graffiti

  • Writings on a wall
  • Basquiat got attention, not detention, for this type of wall writing in "Hollywood Africans"
  • It's spray-painted words on a wall
  • Led Zeppelin had an album called "Physical" this, from the Latin for "stylus"
  • Greek mercenaries used a Cypriot dialect to put this on the Sphinx