The Graffiti Subculture. Primitive Street Expression.

The work deals with the graffiti subculture in Czech Republic, concretely in České Budějovice. In the first part it introduces the term and history of graffiti. The main part is devoted to detailed description of the subculture: who is writer and crew which he paints with and how a young man start with graffiti and why. Next it describes relationship between subculture and society and how they interact with each other and how to defined themselves. Based on the Arnold van Genneps teory of rite of passage, the fourth chapter deals the issue of graffiti as a ritual. The following sub-theme is gender in graffiti subculture, because graffiti is not purely a matter of male. The subject of the last part is street art nad grafitti and art. Both isues are on the border of subculture and mainstream and partialy intervene in commerce