Banksy Street Art Graffiti on My Little Empire

I bought one of Banksy “Wall and Piece” some years back and have always like his work. So this page is dedicated to Banksy.

Banksy is a pseudonymous England based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent 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’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.” Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is active today.

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Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls and even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself.

Notable art pieces

In regards to personal fame, Banksy has stated that “We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.”

However, in addition to his artwork, Banksy has claimed responsibility for a number of high profile art pieces, including the following:

  • At London Zoo, he climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted “We’re bored of fish” in 7-foot-high (2.1 m) letters.
  • In March 2005, he placed subverted artworks in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
  • In May 2005 Banksy’s version of a primitive cave painting depicting a human figure hunting wildlife whilst pushing a shopping trolley was hung in gallery 49 of the British Museum, London. Upon discovery, they added it to their permanent collection.
  • In August 2005, Banksy painted nine images on the Israeli West Bank barrier, including an image of a ladder going up and over the wall and an image of children digging a hole through the wall. Some of which are included below.
  • In June 2006, Banksy created an image of a naked man hanging out of a bedroom window on a wall visible from Park Street in central Bristol. The image sparked some controversy, with the Bristol City Council leaving it up to the public to decide whether it should stay or go. After an internet discussion in which 97% of the 500 people surveyed supported the stencil, the city council decided it would be left on the building.
  • In August/September 2006, Banksy replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. Music tracks were given titles such as “Why Am I Famous?”, “What Have I Done?” and “What Am I For?”. Several copies of the CD were purchased by the public before stores were able to remove them, some going on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites such as eBay. The cover art depicted Paris Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures feature her with a dog’s head replacing her own, and one of her stepping out of a luxury car, edited to include a group of homeless people, which included the caption “90% of success is just showing up.”
  • He also makes stickers (the Neighbourhood Watch subvert) and was responsible for the cover art of Blur’s 2003 album Think Tank…read more on Wikipedia click here
  • Bansky releases a documentry called “Exit Through The Gift Shop” – read our review, click here.

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Banksy Flower Riot Banksy Balloon Girl in West Bank Israel  Banksy Monkey 
 Banksy A Look through the West Bank wall in Israel Banksy Kissing Police Persons  Banksy Rat 
 Banksy Street Art Banksy Street Art 2 Banksy Street Art 3 
 Banksy on the West Bank Banksy on the West Bank  Banksy Street Art 4 
 Banksy Street Art 5 - Pulp Fiction Banksy Street Art 6  Banksy Street Art 7 
 Banksy Street Art 8 Banksy Street Art 9  Banksy Street Art 10 
 Banksy Street Art 11 Banksy Street Art 12   Banksy Street Art 13

Which Banksy Picture do you like the best?

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