Banksy's Impact On The Art World

For most people when you ask them whom they believe is the most influential person in the media, Banksy is not even on that list. He has however managed to make a huge impact on the art world as well as to the people who are able to view his work. He works undercover, and is rarely seen. He is under the impression that the less that people know about him, the more they will concentrate on his art and what it is really trying to say to us as his viewers. He does not make art to make others happy, he makes art to make a statement to others. Banksy has had his images on the Louvre as well as the Metropolian Museum of Art, but not on the inside as most would aspire to. He chooses other means to have his point be made, by using the sides of buildings, …show more content…
This is illegal and makes him a criminal for placing his images there. Despite this fact, Banksy still keeps placing his images where people will see them and he can make a difference. What sets him apart from other artists is that he draws attention to matters that are real, and affect us all. We may not always be aware of what is going on in the world on a larger scale. It is important that someone reminds us that there are bigger issues than the ones many of us face everyday. He is able to make people aware, and make them talk about things that are uncomfortable to talk about. I do not think that he should change anything about where he places his pictures or the images that he draws. If he were to make art that was to be hung in a gallery it would not reach the same group of people that his street art does. His street art allows him to not be restricted to what others want to see. By putting his images out in the open he is able to reach a larger group of people that may never have gone into a museum or art show to view art. Instead he chooses to show his art to the more average …show more content…
She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1 computer as well as a seasoned officer in the United States Navy. She held her position for many years in the military, and even has a guided missile destroyer named after her. Not many people can claim to have a destroyer in their name. She is also said to be the reason for the term “debugging” of a computer system after she removed a moth from the equipment. Her ideas helped to implement change with computer systems and the coding process that they had been working with. She sought to make systems smaller and more available to military ships and the officers that were responsible for commanding them as well. After earning her Ph.D. from Yale in mathematics she went on to be an associate professor at Vassar. Soon after she joined the United States Navy where she served in WAVES. Her grandfather also served in the Navy, so that was a likely choice for her. It was when she worked as an employee at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation that she was really in her element. She was added to the team, which helped to develop the UNIVAC 1. This system was a complier that was able to analyze data that was not just numeric. This set her apart from her peers since she believed that computer’s were possible of doing many things that were beyond just the numeric elements that others believed in. She was working in the new field of computers