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= Graffiti USA = Graffiti USA is an American agency founded in 2011 in association with Klughaus Gallery, offering commissioned aerosol spray paint murals and artwork from a group of top professional graffiti artists. Their work includes residential and commercial interiors, business exteriors, graffiti-related set design, traditional graffiti, live artwork at events and sign painting.

Work
The agency prides themselves on allowing the artist to work anonymously on their own. They service throughout the US, creating custom work for the specific buyers; they can be seen in different tech companies, corporate offices, and museums.

Their work is popular with young tech companies and can be seen in the offices of Facebook and LinkedIn. Other corporate office work includes MasterCard and ABC News, which featured a Graffiti USA commissioned mural on October 8th, 2014 on an episode of Nightline.

History
Klughaus Gallery, the parent company of Graffiti USA, is an art gallery and agency that exhibits and represents artists who use graffiti and street culture in their art. They are professional graffiti artist for hire that make any mural plan come to life. Usually, they work on interior murals more than outdoor murals. Some of the companies that they have worked for are Puma, Sony, New Balance, Vogue, and Adidas just to name a few.

= Graffiti = The definition of graffiti is "marks made by someone on a wall that is accessible to the public eye." Examples of graffiti go all the way back to the city of Pompeii, where people found some marking on walls of the buildings. Phillips categorizes the types of graffiti in three levels: cryptic messages or just writing graffiti in general, gang graffiti, and hip-hop or New York graffiti. She talks about how graffiti is finding its way into museums and galleries; but she questions if graffiti is a form of art or vandalism.

Views on Graffiti
People's views and thoughts on graffiti art and modern art has changed over time. In one study, they monitored the eye-movements of some individuals while they looked at different styles of modern art and graffiti art either in museums and on the streets and rated their thoughts on the art pieces beauty. They found that the rating was higher in a museum than on the street, but there was no difference in rating between the type of art. Their conclusion was the views of art has an influence on the environment, but it also depends on the style the individual is interested in.

Social Media and Graffiti
In our society, social media has grown immensely. Although all social media has opened new ways of thinking by their content, Twitter and Facebook cannot be compared to how fast growing Instagram has been over the years. The semi-new mobile platform, has made it possible to share pictures of many different scenes around the world, but it has now shown how it could used to share art - specifically graffiti and street art.

The relationship between street art, graffiti, and mobile digital technologies is the way in which the production and consumption of the art is shaped by the architecture, protocols, and uses of Instagram. Instagram is reshaping the ways we view different types of art. It considers analytic strategies for the media's platform research that can illuminate this emerging and dynamic relationship.

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= External links =


 * Official website
 * Parent company website