The Dark Roses
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The Dark Roses is a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....

 crew from Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. Founded New Year's Eve 1984, by two crew members of 'The New Nation', Cobra and Doggie
Doggie
Doggie is a Danish artist, currently based in Copenhagen and Istanbul.He was one of the pioneers of Danish Hip-Hop and in the early 80's, he became a member of The New Nation and started the graffiti crew The Dark Roses. He studied advertising and worked as an AD and as a graphic designer since 1988...

. The Dark Roses became one of the pioneers of Scandinavian graffiti. Since the beginning, many graffiti writers have been participating with the Roses, such as ... Seeny, Pirat, Crazy Cat, Stich, Cobra, Leece, Snaky, Jeen, Rodrigo, Case D., Mini, Gooser, Pearl, Aim, Freez (Sweden), Dwane (Sweden), Sonic, Dozo, Sece, Fuse, Avelon and Doggie
Doggie
Doggie is a Danish artist, currently based in Copenhagen and Istanbul.He was one of the pioneers of Danish Hip-Hop and in the early 80's, he became a member of The New Nation and started the graffiti crew The Dark Roses. He studied advertising and worked as an AD and as a graphic designer since 1988...

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The Dark Roses still exists. Many of the members no longer make graffiti, but fx in January 2007 NetBiennial was founded by The Dark Roses. A free non-profit 'graffiti' internet biennale for html/xhtml artists.

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