Banksy

attempted to be relatively apolitical compared to another street artist Banksy who is much more deliberate with his depictions and messages in what he believes. } Banksy is an infamous street artist who similarly uses the Urbanscape as a canvas for their art and opinions but in a very critical way. They have been referred to as “Britain’s Andy Warhol” (Coan, 2008) due to the cultural difference he has made in using Urbanscape. Banksy keeps his identity a secret and this has contributed to the…

the reclusive street-art graffiti legend, also known as Banksy. The film came about when the world famous graffiti artist was approached by an eccentric French shop keeper, Thierry Guetta, who records his entire life with a video camera in order to capture the memory out of apparent relevance to the impromptu death of his mother when he was a child. Guetta was gaining interest in street art and wanted to make a documentary about it and Banksy was the last major figure whose participation he felt…

an idea important to them. Scrolling past images on the internet, turning pages of a popular magazine, or maybe flipping through the channels on a TV, it is almost certain the average person has seen a piece by renowned and elusive street artist, Banksy. Through his political or social commentary superficially simple work plastered against the grime of big city walls attracts onlookers with just a single glance. However, once viewed for a longer period of time, each piece…

on the planet” Banksy is very well known as a “guerilla-style art rebel” and investing millions of dollars in his art work (The Daily Beast). He is also known as being resented by graffiti artist and his ability to do whatever he wants (Write of Passage). “His finances afford him the ability to skip around the world and generate his art and if he gets caught he’s just going to get a slap on the wrist” (Write of Passage). According to The Daily Beast, New Yorkers are calling out Banksy as he…

In the film, the origins of Banksy and Shepard Fairey are introduced, and viewers watch them experiment with the new-found concept of graffiti. Banksy, an artist from England, has risen to fame due to his controversial art and has pushed the boundaries between art and vandalism. Interestingly enough, Bristol, Banksy’s birthplace, allows street…

The specific Poundland which Banksy targeted was at one point putting goods on sale that were created by a seven year old worker who was working “over a hundred hours a week in an Indian factory” for a wage that did not come close to making ends meet (Battersby). Both the timing of the piece, which indicates the piece’s ties to the Diamond Jubilee, and the location of it, which indicates the piece’s ties to the Poundland child labor controversy, make it clear that Banksy was attempting to make a…

More than 8,000 people get arrested each year for expressing themselves through their astonishing artwork. Many people mistake street writers and street artists beautifully crafted work that they put their emotion, time, and dedication into for vandalism. Graffiti remains completely harmless, not a crime and it should be legalized so that artists can show off their prized artwork and talent, feel free to express themselves, and catch people’s attention. Graffiti should be recognized as artwork…

Many of his pieces look similar to Banksy as far as style. I love that for one of his shows he called it “Art is not peace, but War!” (figure 12).6 The name is very fitting as many of the graffiti artist have to fight to get their work out there. Here is the hard question. Is graffiti art…

Is graffiti public art? In my opinion graffiti is vandalism. From what I have read in the two articles some people see graffiti as art while others disagree. Graffiti destroys private property. Its cost a lot of the cities money to clean up the graffiti. Lastly the graffiti is being sold without the knowledge of the artist causing a stir. Graffiti is vandalism because it’s on private property. It’s not fair for the owners of the property to have their property destroyed. “I find it offensive to…

In my English Composition class, I was told that we were to write an ‘exploratory essay’. At first thought, I strongly believed that my professor was trying to say ‘expository’, but he meant what he said. My first time hearing of such a form of writing, I accepted the challenge. After seeing the topics: abortion, capital punishment and legalization of marijuana on the ‘MAY NOT USE’ list, I thought long and hard on a topic of interest. Then Eureka! I had an epiphany… okay maybe not an epiphany,…