banksy

Birth name	(unknown)
Born	Unknown Bristol
Field	Graffiti Street art Bristol underground scene Sculpture Satire Social commentary
Awards	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards – Best First Feature 2010 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association – Best Documentary Film 2010

 

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy once characterised graffiti as a form of underclass "revenge", or guerilla warfare that allows an individual to snatch away power, territory and glory from a bigger and better equipped enemy. Banksy sees a social class component to this struggle, remarking "If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead. Banksy's work has also shown a desire to mock centralized power, hoping that his work will show the public that although power does exist and works against you, that power is not terribly efficient and it can and should be deceived.

Banksy's works have dealt with an array of political and social themes, including anti-War, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, anti-authoritarianism, anarchism, nihilism, and existentialism. Additionally, the components of the human condition that his works commonly critique are greed, poverty, hypocrisy, boredom, despair, absurdity, and alienation.

Banksy makes art that says something about the state the world is in and he expresses his opinion trough it. I really like his art his technique isn’t one off a kind the colors aren’t as well but the story he tells trough his art is special. Banksy dares to speak his mind and just keeps on doing it spectacularly and for everyone to see.