Não Pixe, Grafite (Don’t tag, Graffiti) The Evolvement of Pixação to Graffiti Street Art in Brazil
History of Graffiti and Pixação The war on graffiti being an artistic expression or an act of vandalism is a heated debate that continues today. Thousands of years ago, before the term graffiti was founded, indigenous people drew the first drawings on cave walks. Further down the road, ancient Romans and Greeks used buildings to write protest poems; graffiti made its first debut in New York City in the 1970s when "taggers" began using spray paint to write their tag names on facilities and subway cars around the city. Sao Paulo, Brazil, has not been a stranger to graffiti street art, with the city walls serving as a canvas as far back as the 1930s when political candidates used them for campaign slogans—continuing through the 1960s when students protested against the tyrant Brazilian military government. They would spray paint phrases of their nonagreement, writing words like "abaixo a ditatura " meaning down with the dictatorship as
