Saturday, May 22, 2010
Week 9- Last blog question for semester one- Banksy's work
How can we categorize Banksy's work -graffiti or murals?Research Banksy's work to attempt to answer this question.
What are some of the differing opinions about Banksy's work?How does his work sit in relation to consumerism? Can his work be sold?
What are some of his attitudes to the sale of Art?Who is Banksy? Do we know his true identity?
Upload 2-3 images of Banksy's work that you find interesting, and comment on the ideas behind the work.
I think Banksy's works are more like Graffiti and Because graffiti and street art have played a key role in contemporary wall painting. Such graffiti/street artists as Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Mint&Serf, Futura 2000, Os Gemeos and Faile among others have successfully transcended their street art aesthetic beyond the walls of urban landscape and onto walls of private and corporate clients. As graffiti/street art became more main stream in the late 1990s, youth oriented brands such as Nike, Red Bull and Wieden Kennedy have turned to graffiti/street artists to decorate walls of their respective offices. This trend continued through 2000's with graffiti/street art gaining more recognition from art institutions worldwide.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural)Banksy's work depicted about social and politics issue to provoking society. However, his works are a destructive way of ruining property. It’s also illegal. Some is considered as magnificent mural yet for me it's just graffiti and ruining property.
Mostly idea behind his work is consumerism to provoking society to think more about enough-ism. His works are not for sale but some people like it and make profit out off his work by different media such as Post card, T-shirt and canvas.
Banksy does not produce greeting cards or print photo-canvases or paint commissions or sell freshly baked bagels. Please take anything from this site and make your own (non-commercial use only thanks). (http://www.banksy.co.uk/shop/index.html)
no one truly knows the identity of Banksy. Now we only know his face and the real name which his name is Robert Banks.
This work is to show us human make profit by pollution and destroying environment. It's working perfectly with composition. I think This one is very impressive.
This work is also impressed me in the way of policy and rule that would be happen in some day in our society. I think Banksy wants us to realize if we continue Capitalism there will not have dream which we have to obey the government.
