Writing in Graffiti Art (Tehran)

Graffiti is the art of conveying a message by drawing letters and pictures on the walls of a city. Early humans painted images and drawings on cave walls for hunting and as magic, but today these images are used by artists to express political, social, and cultural issues. Graffiti art has a long history in many American and European countries, but in Iran it is not very old and is not considered a legal art. This study examines the text in some of the graffiti in Tehran to determine its relationship with the art of calligraphy. This descriptive-analytical research, and by collecting information in a field method, tries to examine the position and relationship of writing in graffiti with common lines to determine whether they have an aesthetic or semantic aspect that is the purpose of this research. The present article examines the impact of calligraphy, calligraphy and western calligraphy on writing in Iranian graffiti art as the question of this article. The result of this research shows that these writings are an arrangement of letters that has an aesthetic aspect, while some have a text that reflects the conditions of society. Therefore, writing in graffiti has aesthetic and semantic aspects. Graffiti writing is also associated with lines in traditional calligraphy, calligraphy, and Western calligraphy. These works are similar to traditional calligraphy in appearance, but due to the non-observance of their basic rules by graffiti writers, they have made changes in these lines and have invented new lines.