He was our reality check.”The graffiti artist Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as Phase 2, in 1996. PHASE 2, born Michael Lawrence (Lonnie) Marrow, was tall and lanky — with an affinity for Italian knits and sharkskin pants. Holman: "Phase 2 was a good friend and a good person who cared deeply for other people and the culture (hip hop, aerosol/graffiti) he was greatly responsible for creating. “He was intellectually different.”He designed the first logo for the Tuff City record label and the fliers for the New York City Rap Tour, which in 1982 took a cadre of rappers, dancers and artists across the Atlantic to England and France, the first real exporting of New York hip-hop culture.“He was one of the few artists of that ’70s period that continued with the newer set,” said Mr. Schmidlapp, who later began IGTimes (International Graffiti Times, later International Get-Hip Times). And he rapped: In the late 1970s, Phase 2 was a member of a crew called the Wizards, and in 1982 he released a pair of singles, “The Roxy” and “Beach Boy.”Charlie Ahearn, the director of the 1983 film “Wild Style,” has said that Phase 2 was In the late 1970s, Phase 2 began applying his artistic gifts to a different medium: party fliers. At the center of them all was Phase 2, an intuitive, disruptive talent who first made his mark as a writer of graffiti — although he hated the term.“He had a natural gift or ability to stylize letters,” said Alan Ket, a founder of the His influence on the burgeoning art form was seismic. He was featured in an important essay on graffiti art by Richard Goldstein which appeared in New York magazine and inspired a new generation of graffiti artists. And he continued to develop new styles, sometimes passing them off to his fellow writers.Crucially, he rejected the word graffiti — “the G-word,” he called it. Bronx graffiti artist and designer PHASE 2 has died.He passed away Thursday night, December 12, 2019. He painted a variety of substyles of these letters, with a name for each: “squish luscious,” “phasemagorical phantastic” and so on. The artist who went by a variety of names including True, True Mathematics, Phase Too, Lonnie Wood and Lonnie Marrow is considered widely to be the architect of the writing movement that many call graffiti, a term that he rejected in life due to its derogatory implications. He found it denigrating and preferred terms like style writing. Il a également collaboré avec Richard Goldstein pour la construction d'un essai sur le graffiti à New York, qui a servi à inspirer de nouvelles générations d'artistesEn 1980, la phase 2 participe à la création de l'Internationale Graffiti Times, le premier magazine dédié à l'écritureContrairement à d'autres écrivain actif dans New-York, La phase 2 a joué un rôle de première importance dans la scène hip hop La phase 2 était dans le spectacle légendaire organisé par Kool Lady Blue à l'été 1982 au Roxy à New York Chelsea, quartier New-York appartenant à la circonscription de La phase 2 a été l'un des rares écrivains à participer à la musique du hip hop, a commencé comme DJ en fait, même si ce ne cesse maintenant de se consacrer plus à cette activitéEn plus de DJ et rappeur de phase 2, il a également été B-Boy, et il a prétendu avoir inventé le 'uprock, même si on sait que le style est probablement né en Brooklyn, et non dans le BronxEn dépit de ne pas avoir jamais pris une part active dans la production, il semble que l'écrivain a influencé le film wild style. Le projet graffitis phase 2 : un projet rassembleur. Also called softies, this lettering was used for the earliest subway pieces and gave material for the further development of other letter styles and what will later become wild lettering. « L'écriture sur les murs des lieux de culte et des bâtiments historiquement importants ou valeur artistique réelle est pas bon. MC Debbie D shared the news about the death of PHASE 2 on Twitter. Phase 2 was one of the first graffiti artists to become popular in his community. If you couldn’t get one, you got the other! But he hated the word.Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was one of the most prolific, inventive and emulated New York graffiti writers, and who later produced early hip-hop’s most innovative fliers, died on Dec. 12 at a nursing and rehabilitation center in the Bronx.