Broadly speaking, I’ve noticed 2 “styles” of tag graffiti: Serif-y line signature-like tags and big bubble writing. This is broadly speaking, there are of course subtleties, but as an outsider, graffiti can look very similar and does feel like they mostly fall into these 2 groups, whether it’s in North America, Europe, etc. You don’t usually hear “that is European style tagging”, I just see bubbly text no matter the location, and they not noticeable different to an outsider the way, say, American food looks different than Chinese food.
Was tagging a thing everywhere and they happened to look similar? Did styles in different places converge? Was there a cult of bubble taggers and the leader told them to spread the gospel around the world? Am I wrong with a biased dataset (noting of course there can be lesser seen visual styles)? ELI5.
Flairing as “other” as this is sort of a sociology topic, probably.
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a “tag” is basically a signature. The goal is usually to write it as quickly as possible. If they are using the roman alphabet, its easy for different tags to look similar. Much like regular signatures. Take enough of them and they start to look generally the same.
if you take japanese or korean tags not written using the roman alphabet, there are some similar flourishes but some of them look more similar to each other than to ones you would see in western countries.
Larger more detailed graffiti is usually called a “piece” or “mural”. Most artists are well aware of artistic themes like composition and framing. A lot of the rules tend to give way to similar styles. Generally speaking, without too much critique, most landscape painting looks like other landscape paintings. Same goes for graffiti. Its the fine details that separate artists.
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