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Banksy. _____ ... eye. I came to London in 2005 when the hype around
the graffiti artist ?Banksy? was on its highest. ...
... of four artists - the Turkish-Cypriot fashion designer and installation/video artist
Hussein Chalayan; the British graffiti artist known as Banksy; the New ...
... and genre have created a need for the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board to certify
the authenticity of works by Warhol.[63] Graffiti Artist Banksy created a ...
... A graffiti artist, such as Banksy, has a completely different view of vandalism
to that of a gang member who throws rocks at windows. ...
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Kim Trager
When I was a child, London was all about double decked busses, Bobbies and red telephone boxes. When I became a teenager and gained more knowledge about the capital the interest was towards all the clubs which apparently were spread around the capital. When I actually moved to London, there was something completely different which caught my eye.
I came to London in 2005 when the hype around the graffiti artist “Banksy” was on its highest. I still remember walking to Tesco in Bethnal Green when my eye caught one of his stencils, depicting a rat holding a ghetto blaster. I had to turn around to go home and get my camera and take pictures of this little hidden gem on the side of a corner shop. My discovery of Banksy later led to my own adventures with spray cans.
Stencilling has existed for thousands of years – and origins back to cave paintings produced 22.000 years ago where hand silhouettes were produced by blowing paint around a hand placed on a surface. The technique has been used around the globe from the Chinese to the Egyptian - using it to decorate silk with Buddha figures - to cover the inside of pyramids. It has been used in the 30’s to make exclusive limited art deco posters and in the 60’s, celebrated pop artist Andy Warhol used stencils to make some of his most iconic work. 1970’s Basques used Stencils to make protest pictures on walls against General Franco’s fascist regime.
Today, stencilling has made artists like Banksy art celebrities. Alongside Damian Hirst and Tracy Emin, Banksy sell his stencils in galleries and action houses for enormous sums of money.
If you look through Banksy’s work you recognise that most of his work depicts his view on media, authorities and society. I’ve chosen 2 pictures. One picture showing a rat with a camera and another picture with a rat holding a brush.
The stencil with the rat holding a camera is photographed in...
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