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Lee Quinones

If you think that graffiti art (in the contemporary NYC sense of the term) begins with  Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, you're wrong...
Back in the day the real street legend was Lee Quinones, he's considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the graffiti era. He started with subway graffiti in 1974 and by 1976 he was a legend.
He worked in the shadows for years, then in 1983 he played Raymond Zoro in the most influential movie of the hip hop culture: Wild Style






















This is a rencent interview for Life & Times:






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