This was a movement that was really successful in New York City in the 1980s. It was named after the spray can vandalism, which was common in most cities but it was associated with the New York Subway System.
The two most successful figures of this movement were Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
The New York art scene embraced Graffiti Art, with several galleries of this genre and a museum which was opened in 1989.
The genre was popular and artists in this field was selling their work for big money, but this art soon went out fashion.
Is this art or vandalism?
Personally I think that it depends on whether the person that is doing the graffiti has the property owners permission.
I think that if they have the property owners permission then it is not vandalism if they do it on a place where they do not have permission then this is classed as vandalism.
I found some arguments that were for graffiti art saying that it is art and I totally agree that some graffiti art is classed as real art.
For example Banksy a well known street artist sold one of his stencil paintings for £400,000 at an auction in London, also another street artist called Pavel 183 sold one of his paintings for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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