California-based artist Mark Bryan has painted colourful scenes of, alien spaceships, circus characters seascapes, landscapes, and stimulating visual takes on everyday sayings like “If Looks Could Kill” and “The Elephant in the Room”, but he is most recognized for his satirical works on modern day politics. These show dictatorial generals, the deteriorating environment, shining cities on hills established at the expense of a poor working class, ultimately displaying numerous forms of corruption in a humorous way.
Although these paintings are too quick to point out human flaws and failures, they remain free of darkness and despair. The lens of cheerfulness itself becomes something of a potentially liberating force. In the painting to the left …show more content…
Staying true to the ideologies of street art, he's built many celebrated bodies of work, all permanent and impermanent, that utilizes satire, sabotage, dark humor, and irony to create significant social, political, and humanist messages for the population on a public level. He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece (Wall and Piece, Mark Bryan), that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So, he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour. His style is universally familiar, founded on a signature stencil aesthetic that has elevated him from mere man with a spray can to a highly creative artist in his own right. (the art story, 2018)
Banksy has taken a pre-existing image - in this case an iconic photograph from Vietnam in 1972, of a girl - Kim Phuc - fleeing from a napalm attack on her village. The original photograph was taken by associated press photographer Nick Ut and has developed into a short hand for the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Banksy has isolated the image of the horror-stricken girl (originally surrounded by a few other clothed children and seven soldiers running down a road away from the site of the napalm attack) and edged her with Mickey Mouse and Ronald
Although these paintings are too quick to point out human flaws and failures, they remain free of darkness and despair. The lens of cheerfulness itself becomes something of a potentially liberating force. In the painting to the left …show more content…
Staying true to the ideologies of street art, he's built many celebrated bodies of work, all permanent and impermanent, that utilizes satire, sabotage, dark humor, and irony to create significant social, political, and humanist messages for the population on a public level. He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece (Wall and Piece, Mark Bryan), that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So, he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour. His style is universally familiar, founded on a signature stencil aesthetic that has elevated him from mere man with a spray can to a highly creative artist in his own right. (the art story, 2018)
Banksy has taken a pre-existing image - in this case an iconic photograph from Vietnam in 1972, of a girl - Kim Phuc - fleeing from a napalm attack on her village. The original photograph was taken by associated press photographer Nick Ut and has developed into a short hand for the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Banksy has isolated the image of the horror-stricken girl (originally surrounded by a few other clothed children and seven soldiers running down a road away from the site of the napalm attack) and edged her with Mickey Mouse and Ronald