Modern graffiti has been around since the 1960's when gangs would spray paint names, messages, and pictures on surfaces, to show protest, violence, or leisure. Currently though, graffiti has become a more accepted way to create art. Graffiti can appear on clothing, advertisements, music covers, and more. Houston, however, did not start this "movement" Philadelphia and New York did, Houston had maintained a unique history that helped the graffiti art success. In 1979 Eddie Scott ad Scott Prescott formed a group called the Urban Animals. The group was known for their graffiti art, bar-hopping, crosstown skating, and other things. A quote from Angel Quesada, a visual artist and muralist "There's this whole back and forth about what is street art, what is graffiti, what's a mural..."
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