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Mohammed Ali ((ベンガル語:মুহাম্মদ আলি); born 21 July 1979), also known as Aerosol Arabic, is an English street artist. He is well known for combining street art with Islamic script and patterns. ==Early life== Ali was born and brought up in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. Ali grew up with Irish and South Asian children in his neighbourhood. Ali's parents were born in Bangladesh and came to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.〔 Mohammed Ali〕 In the 1970s, his father bought his first fish and chip shop,〔 and later went into the restaurant business.〔 From 1989 to 1997, Ali attended King Edward VI Five Ways School. He has said that he felt like a misfit at his school, being one of only a handful of Muslims in the overwhelmingly Anglo student body. As a youth, he found himself torn between an Islamic upbringing and the Birmingham's thriving club scene.〔 In his late teens and early twenties, Ali entrenched himself in the urban Hip hop music scene, a lifestyle of late nights and partying that he said eventually left him disillusioned. Ali was seven when he saw his first book on graffiti, which was brought home by his older brother. Three years later, he got his first spray can. Ali used to do illegal graffiti and sprayed his first wall at the age of 14. Since the early 1980s, Ali has been an active artist, he was inspired by the Subway art movement and by New York graffiti. Ali would find the ugliest wall and resolve to turn it into a piece of art by adding colour rather than tagging his name.〔 At around the age of 20,〔 a friend of Ali's died in a car accident and another friend died of a drug overdose.〔 This led Ali to re-discovering his religion, Islam,〔 and his outlook in life began to change. In 2002, Ali graduated with a degree in Multimedia Design from De Montfort University.〔〔〔 From January 2001 to June 2005, Ali worked in the computer-games industry as a designer for Full-Fat Gaming. However, after being disillusioned with using his creative skills for commercial benefit, he left the commercial games sector and began exploring with creating art with what he thought was a better purpose.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohammed Ali (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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