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virgal london
street art and graffiti
about virgal london
virgal, short for virtual gallery, was created in london and focuses attention on the artistic content of world urban art by extracting it from its street location and displaying it, virtually, in a gallery environment, utilising digital
image manipulation
graffiti, from the greek , gráfo (write) and the mid 19 th century italian, graffio (scratch), originated in prehistory when the first fruits of artistic self expression resulted in the images of primitive hunters and animals being scratched into the walls of dark caves together with the outlines of the artists' own hands stencilled and blown in ancient mineral pigments
modern day street art and graffiti is usually traced back to urban artists working in new york and san francisco around the mid 20th century
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