Artist: Banksy
Date viewed: February 13, 2008
I found out about this Graffiti Artist while I was surfing on the web. It turns out he's a pretty well know gurriella graffiti artist in the UK. With rumored celebrity patronage such as Brad and Angelina buying his work. They said nobody really know who he is because all of his work were done anonymously. They are some spectulation on wikipedia of who he might be, but I have not found any other sources. His work is direct to the point. One that caught my eye was his work where Queen Elizabeth II was having intimate contact with another woman. Though I started to think...if she was a lesbian...so what's wrong with that? Is he being homosexual paranoid, or is he trying to say something else? Have we gotten better the way we treat people that we might consider different from us? That will be a long discussion. Another image that caught my eyes was of a little girl bleeding and standing in the middle of a battle zone. What stricking was that the media takes pictures and footages of her, instead of helping her. I thought that image was pretty strong also. For the most part the images are in black and white, colors are sometimes use to emphasize what he is trying to convey to the audience.
He's murals are very popular. People actually take pictures of them, to sell them to make money. I like that his murals are in places that you would least expect art to be seen, like on the side of a building, next to a trash can, on windows,lockers, etc...I also noticed that he often uses a little girl on his work. Sort of taking the innocense of this little girl. Mice are also another images that reappers a lot in his work. I wonder if the rat is his alter ego.
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