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For decades I’ve lectured on Graffiti and Art History, where it repeats, intersects and departs from over time.

One of my favorite talks is, “Did Russia have Hip Hop before us?”
(I will focus on trains for this post)

I share archival works by the Agit- Prop movement (1920) and @leequinones who throughout the 1970s-80s painted some of the most celebrated trains in graffiti history. Pinning it with recently wrapped trains by FIFA for the World Cup.

✨We Weren’t the First!✨

The Agit- Prop movement originated in Soviet Russia in 1920 with the establishment of the Communist Party’s Department of Agitation and Propaganda.

It was used to control ideological thinking, shape public opinion, and mobilize the masses through posters, theater, and traveling propaganda trains. (wiki)

Some 50 plus years later Lee would go on to paint his most ambitious and influential trains that would serve as a calling to youth like myself to take up arms against a system with nothing more than markers and a spray can.

Lee found the perfect platform on the train surfaces for his art and took advantage of its vast network and daily viewership. For many a revulsion but to us writers it was a revolutionary act, his message was clear- make more of your name and the medium- make a damn statement!

The wrapped trains surprised me in how they felt Agit-Prop more than graffiti. I suppose we can call it Agit- Profit. While decorative it still clearly registers as political power and nation branding.

The thread is there for consideration or rebuttal.

#agitprop #subwayart #arthistory #leetf5 #leequinones by @mare139

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Slid into The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 🌧️

This has been my classroom since childhood. Always incredible to see and experience so much across millennia in one breath.

☔️ I dodged the deluge!

#metroplitanmuseumofart #arthistory #artschool by @mare139

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7 days ago

From the subway trains to the galleries and museums. No one could have imagined the repercussions of young kids painting subway trains. Early 1980 whole car by me and @crashone alongside @butch2tfp#KingKase2 @kel1st @graffitiloser #SeenUA @shirtkingphade @cosroc207 #Shy147 All of us at Gunhill Road layup. Reproduction of my piece for gallery exhibition at @artanddesignnyc Photography by @marthacoopergram from her recent book release with @beyondthestreetsart #classic #graffiti #subwayart #oldschool by @mare139

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4 years ago

Thank you @nycksin26 @mikesaes @akiraruiz for the Original Playoff swag!

NYCKS in Five! 🏀🏆

#trueyorkers #lowereastsidenyc #les #newyorkknicks #knycks by @mare139

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a month ago

Go NY Go! Go NY Go! Go NY Go!
#newyorkknicks #knicksinfive #knicks by @mare139

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@mr_stash @waneonecod 💗 LEO ✨Soho NYC #youcantspelllovewithoutleo by @mare139

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2 months ago

Yeah What? Overlook the wack handstyle the message is on point for you young artists even my OGs who refuse to adopt to all the new tools and innovations at our disposal.

I was at the forefront of digital art and tech and especially for the Hip Hop Community and Graffiti culture at a time of contentious debate about digital graffiti.

I got a lot of heat, but am ultimately proven right about my advices and advocacy to adopt technologies into our processes.

I cant keep hearing the cries of “keeping it real” thats all relative and fine if thats your constitution but the reality of modern art making the tools changed long ago, in fact I include the Spray Can as one of the most modern of technological tools for art making.

I often say you have a left hand and a right hand to make work same goes for your brain left and right… use them.

#digitalart #digitalgraffiti #spraycanart #subwayart by @mare139

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2 months ago

Thank you for sharing your exhibition @peterpaidnyc fantastic presentation at @timetideshopusa Soho NYC.

You already know what time it is! ✨

#peterpaid #timetideshop #sohonyc #audimarspiguet #rolexwatches by @mare139

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2 months ago

Another chapter in the history of Graffiti revealed.

#graffitihistory #arthistory #graffiti #egypt by @mare139

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2 months ago

@friendsfromnewyork pulled some old friends together for old times sake!

Join us May 28th! by @mare139

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2 months ago

New Funky Drummer Notation Tee available!

Link in bio- carlosmare.com by @mare139

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5 months ago

Codes of the Streets. Legendary @dozegreen #headspinna

@nyugallatingalleries @hiphopeducationcenter

#bboy #fringedweller #breaksforlove by @mare139

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