Last blog question for semester one- Banksy's work

How can we categorize Banksy's work -graffiti or murals?
Graffiti is art piece that artists make to sell in public for the pleasure of passers-by, usually tourists, in order to earn money.A mural is any piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. First of all his work assaults you with the fact that it's graffiti. If you look his work into details, you realize its mixture with graphic visually and style from urban to stancilied image to challenge the socially and making people to think.

What are some of the differing opinions about Banksy's work?

Peter Gibson, a spokesperson for Keep Britain Tidy, and Diane Shakespear think Graggiti's work is vandalism asserts that Banksy's work is simple vandalism. Some people think it is great because images making us to think deeper to figure out messages that Graggiti is trying to tell. it is the way to tell the truth through his art about the society that we are living in, his way of making art work challenge the art, the politics, because he is telling what art truly is about. "He sees the i"rony and hypocrisy of our mundane lives (at times) and asks us to view a larger picture.
How does his work sit in relation to consumerism? Can his work be sold?

In his website in the SHOP area, it says "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)."
What are some of his attitudes to the sale of Art?

He refuses to sell his work but he is using visuals and text provide us with puns that have more than one layer of consciousness.
Who is Banksy? Do we know his true identity?

Banksy is a British graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and was born in 1974 in Bristol,England, but identity is unknown. His father is a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.

Upload 2-3 images of Banksy's work that you find interesting, and comment
on the ideas behind the work.

His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stenciling technique. He creates some magical and truly original posters and paintings. He always put something that seems destroy the whole painting, but however, if you take more look at the painting ,you realise that, it is not destroyed, it is the connection between viewer and the work, because it makes me to think about the meaning behind the work and relate the work to today's society about human, politics.

reference:

http://www.saltlakemagazine.com/Blogs/Sundancing/January-2010/A-Sundance-Surprise/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

http://www.freep.com/article/20100515/ENT05/100514077/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-leaves-mark-on-Detroit-and-ignites-firestorm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239142/Banksy-graffiti-war-fellow-street-artist-painting-24-year-old-mural.html