As an accounting and finance major, my awareness and education of art in general is extremely limited but my interest in graffiti and street art is not limited. My first experience in art and graffiti art was the introduction to the key terms in street art. These terms were far different to what I used to refer to particular street art or graffiti, for example, I used to refer to all graffiti art as 'pieces' but after some individual investigation as well as an interesting powerpoint explaining the different graffiti and street art terms I realized that 'pieces' are a particular graffiti and street art that requires an extreme amount of planning as well as key execution.
So, key graffiti terms are important when referring to street art as the differences between them may only be small but the terminology for the art may change. Compare the 'piece' above to something called a 'throwie', which in the graffiti and street art world has much less respect, purely due to the fact that is seen to be less complex and have much less of a meaning and message than a 'piece'. If you refer to both images you can identify which of the two is more complex and therefore most probably a 'piece'.
Bibliography Sources
http://www.crayone.com/graffitiburners.html
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