Discover the 13 famous works of the controversial Banksy
Little or nothing is known about the mysterious English Banksy, let me even say that it is a group of people. Or that it is known that the controversial works appear around the world and enchant or revolt those who passam: no one passes unscathed to this art of rua.
Banksy's work can be found in England, in France, in Vienna, in São Francisco, in Barcelona, in the United States, in Austria and at Faixa in Gaza.
Ironic, controversial, sarcastic, rebellious, irreverent, Banksy's works são feitas na rua e para a rua, feared as a public to passersby. As most of the children are in public spaces, or work and subject to perenniality of time and vandalism.
"Art must comfort or disturb and disturb or comfort."
Banksy
1. Girl with Balloon
Raised in 2002, in South Bank (London), the panel illustrates a small girl that loses or balão in the format of heart. On the side of the illustration, feita en preto e branco with barely more a cor of highlight (or vermelho do coração), there is a phrase available: "There is always hope". Feito em stencil, Girl with Balloon has been replicated a few times and two works by Banksy that are most recognized.
O leilão e a selfdestruição
A most well-known work of Banksy ganhou ainda major notoridade após or event do leilão da Sothesby of October 05, 2018. It is to be sold for about 1 thousand pounds, the work was self-destructing logo após to his bandage, to the fright of all present.
A version of the canvas of Banksy's work was cut into strips that were slightly tied.
2. Peaceful hearts doctor
Feito em Chinatown, São Francisco (USA), or stencil follows a mesma linha from Girl with Balloon, with just three cores: o preto e o branco do doctor em opposição ao vermelho do symbol of peace and heart that examine.
3. Kissing coppers
Two more controversial works by Banksy and Kissing Coppers, painted in Brighton (England). A transparent image or affection between two police officers who are exposed to any constraint. Either work was vandalized and recovered some times I attached that or donated no bar where a peça found itself resolved to sell it. Or value was not officially disclosed, but I suppose it is between half a thousand and one thousand dollars.
4. Soldier throwing flowers
Banksy has been in Palestine some times and in all of them deixou works back hairs walls. It is credited that the artist's first departure was in August 2005, when he painted work in the barreira that divides Israel from Palestine. Soldier throwing flowers shows a city of covered face pulling a bouquet of flowers, or inverse of a war object.
5. Brexit
Painted in Dover, in a port that links the United Kingdom to France, or bem humorous panel with reference to the departure of England from the European Union. O worker, through a long scale, sovereign to turn off one of the stars of the European community's bandeira.
6. Shop Until You Drop
Painted in London, in 2011, the stencil is arranged on the side of a huge product and shows a woman who enjoyed shopping when she fell. Já sem um sapato, you are not carrinho, too, you are scattering as left. Banksy is known as his anti-capitalist hair.
7. Guantanamo Bay Prisioner
Painted on May 18, 2007 at Exmouth Market, in London, or a stencil stating the prisoners of the North American prison Guantanamo was not the only act of athleticism in relation to the theme.
On the 8th of September 2006, Banksy got his assistant Thierry Guetta to put on a boneco Inflável dressed as a Guantanamo uniform inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad attraction, in Disneylândia de Orlando.
8. Sweep It Under The Carpet
Feito em Hoxton, East London, in 2007, or the panel shows an entrepreneur playing or lixo supposedly for the bottom of the curtain. A funny stencil gives an impression to the viewer that the wall would be covered by a white panorama.
9. Toxic rat
Banksy has painted a series of times around the world, or the image was made in Canden, London. Além dos ratos, or artist uses to paint macaques.
Often times they are compared to the human species because they are back and forth everywhere. Perhaps Bansky's most iconic images are anarchist moments.
10. Steve Jobs
Painted in Calais, not north of France, where a refugee camp is located, Bansky portrays the CEO of Apple. The stencil tells that Steve Jobs was the son of Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian immigrant. Embora or artist fails very rarely in public, in any case he manifested himself about or work:
"We are many times led to prove that migration drains the resources of a country, but Steve Jobs was the filho of a Syrian immigrant. Apple is the most profitable company in the world, it pays more than 7 thousand thousand dollars per year in taxes and it only exists because it will authorize the entry of young people from Homs. "
11. Grosvenor
Painted in October 2010 on the wall of the Grosvenor Hotel on Belgrave Road, London. Or work takes advantage of part of the material that has been (as degrees of respiration) and is built in dialogue as space.
12. Thinker
Disposta em Gaza, a peça is a reference to the classic sculpture O thinker, by Rodin. O work was done in 2014, after war.
This was not the first time that Banksy was not worried about the cause. In August 2005, new images for women in Palestine, the most famous of them may be seen below.
Read to detailed analysis of Rodin's original sculpture, O Thinker.
13. Stop and search
Painted in 2007 in Bethlehem, Palestine. The Banksy stencil promotes an investment of papéis: nele é a menina que encosta o soldier a o wall e o magazine. It is worth mentioning that the territory chosen by the artist to intervene lives in permanent tension between Jews and Arabs.
Characteristics of Banksy's works
However, the work is very different with two others, and it is possible to find some common traces. The graffiti foram feitos in public spaces, generally at dawn, with authorization from nenhuma government entity.
Em general carregam um forte cunho politico, fazem uma social criticism and tackling questões da atualidade.
Banksy uses a series of different techniques in order to make more of his works from him seja feita em stencil.
Quem é Banksy? Or what is known about the identity of the artist?
Banksy is known hairs serious tricked street art works. Até hoje does not concede the identity of the artist, it is known, above all, his origin: born in Yacht, in England (born in Bristol or had been raptured). His graffiti began to appear in 1993, making reference to contemporary society as a forte viés revolucionário e anti guerra.
“The major crimes of the world are not committed by people who violate rules, but by people who follow rules. São as people who follow orders to drop bombs and massacre villages. "
Banksy
As works are installations or paintings made through stencils, many times with written phrases. The places where the fish are feitas are also fundamental for understanding the breeding.
Banksy is not on facebook or on twitter or on any social network and is not represented by nenhuma gallery. You work is never assassinated. Does not exist, a verified contact does Instagram like Banksy.
Let me say that I am not true of him and Robin or Robert Banks, but that is just a guess. Other people hold that the true identity of the artist is Robin Gunningham. Bansky has also joined Robert Del Naja, lead singer of the electronic music group Massive Attack.
About a Barely Legal exhibition
Held in California in September 2006, at a Barely Legal exhibition, by Banksy, it was free and gathered a huge number of fãs in an industrial warehouse.
The main attraction was Elephant in the room (an allusion to the expression "an elephant in the living room"). In a mounted room, a 37-year-old elephant was painted and exhibited.
Documents about Banksy's work
Some major rivalries in the world of graffiti are between Robbo and Banksy.
O mourning was important for the universe of art of rua that a document was made in homage to essa rixa:
Perhaps the most famous film on a Banksy theme has been or Exit through the gift shop. Or protagonist of the story is Thierry Guetta, a little guy who as a hobby to film or work two graffiti artists on the road as the idea of creating a document. Or Guetta's fate completely changed when Bansky was found.
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