FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY OF GRAFFITI IN THE TEENAGE AND YOUTH TRADITION OF A MODERN CITY

The article is devoted to analysing the functional features of teenage and youth graffiti tradition in modern urban space. The paper deals with the analysis based on the author's oral and visual field materials. The author characterises the main features of modern teenage and youth graffiti, including the reduction of protest, the combination of anonymity and the use of author's signs and nicknames. The article highlights the main features of graffiti as a way of communication of teenage and youth groups: the use of welcoming inscriptions and good wishes, provocativeness, competitiveness, and the use of dialogue. Graffiti is interpreted as a way of spatial and temporal localization of children's groups and childhood in the city. Graffiti is regarded as a training of emotions, feelings and values of teenage and youth culture, among which the dominating values are joy-love, fear of death, freedom, justice, desire for originality.