Park Bulvar shopping ad entertainment center hosted the first graffiti festival in Baku last Saturday.

The festival, organized jointly by Park Bulvar and Urban Art Azerbaijan community organization brought together talented graffiti artists. The event featured the discotheque for all music lovers.

During the day, young artists painted the parking of the shopping center. In the end, their works were presented to the public.

The winner of the first Graffiti festival became the artist from Sumgayit city, known under the nickname Ayefes. He will represent Azerbaijan at the Graffiti festival in St. Petersburg.

Graffiti is an entertaining art of writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface.

It expresses underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint graffiti style.

Graffiti art ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. A work of street art has been popular since ancient times. Some of the earliest paintings date back to the ancient Egypt and Greece.

Modern graffiti art can be traced to the late 1960s in the United States. It originated in New York City, and it was known first as "New York Style" graffiti. This art began in the late 1960s when teens used permanent markers to tag or write their names, followed by the number of the street on which they lived, in subway cars.

There are various forms of graffiti. One of the simplest forms is that of individual markings such as slogans, slurs, or political statements. Examples of this type of graffiti commonly are found in bathrooms or on exterior surfaces, and this graffiti is usually handwritten. Another simple form is that of the tag which is a fancy, scribble-like writing of one's name or nick-name. That is, tag signifies one's name or nick-name.