...unique, original, and one of a kind or so we thought. Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary about French filmmaker Thierry or Mister Brainwash who very quickly turns into a street artist. Banksy, the person Thierry looks up to is the one behind Mister Brainwash’s success, which causes us to question is Mister Brainwash a true artist or a scammer who is using other art claiming it is his own? According to Exit Through the Gift Shop, Mr Brainwash is the next upcoming artist, or is it showing just how much art has changed and how easy it is to become an artist just by using what’s already at Thierry’s feet along with brainwashing gullible collectors into believing his art is one of a kind? Banksy, a well-known street artist, is...
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...Graffiti is a controversial art form that evokes many different reactions and opinions. Some people do not even consider it an art, but see it as a crime. Still others see it as both. However, whether it is seen as any of these conditions, some graffiti has value within the broader urban context. The work of Banksy, for example, is highly valued by its viewers for its satirical perspectives on politics and society. Although Banksy’s work is not what many people think of when graffiti is mentioned, it certainly is because of the “canvas” which is used (walls, buildings, and other public places.) Banksy’s work may be considered more artistic than most of the other types of graffiti because he does so much more than simply paint his name in a certain style and his works lend themselves less to urban decay and are more valuable to the urban landscape. Although some forms of graffiti, such as tagging, devalue an area, the work of Banksy does the opposite due to the messages each works portrays and the aesthetic appareance each one has. Banksy started his career as a graffiti artist in 1993 in Bristol, London. He started off like other graffiti artists and tagged...
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...BANKSY STREET ART BY: HANI MUAMMAR SAE Introduction Art is a great way for individuals to express themselves, many artworks can be deemed as controversial especially when artists produce their art in order to express their views, feelings or specific ideas linked to their political, social or economical surroundings. Such art could have significant effects which may influence the people who appreciate its core meaning and could link it to the status quo in any named community. Certain techniques, styles and structures are implemented by many famous artists in order to construct this art into a form that typifies them as artists and gives them their unique signature. (heghine666 2011) One specific artist has been largely famous for his controversial and unique forms of art, he is known by the alias “Banksy” who uses graffiti street art as a structure for his unique form of art. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist in the world. Some pieces of his urban graffiti art, with its distinctive stencil style, have been sold at auctions for remarkable amounts of money, but most importantly, he has inspired many people around the world for having pieces which touches upon sensitive and core social, political and economic situations in life that many people can easily relate to. His name, style, and brand of urban anti-war, anti-establishment, and rebellious art have earned him a place in the hearts of many who appreciates it. The two primary reasons that Banksy's...
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...people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. Graffiti has a negative stigma that typically relates to crime. To the artist, they are not committing any crime but to outsiders they are committing illegal acts. Keywords: Graffiti, Banksy, interpretation, crime, vandalism Open interpretation of Banky’s graffiti art When people think and/or hear the word graffiti, they relate it to gangs and vandalism to property. Other people see it has a way to express and communicate with others. People may see graffiti written on walls, buildings, trains, buses, freeway and/or road signs, billboards, and any space an artist wants their work to be seen. With the many surfaces that graffiti will be written on, public or private, it is vandalism and illegal. Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place (Ferrell 2006, pg. 6). Common terms for graffiti are; tagging, pieces, and throw-ups. Graffiti artist or “writers” as they prefer to be called are passionate, skilled, community- oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they’ve been portrayed...
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...shop” I thought I was going to watch a film about street art. The film opened up with scenes of street artists at work all over the world, next Banksy appears in the shadows with his voice distorted. Banksy is one of the most famous street artists in the world, yet no one knows what he looks like. He doesn’t let anyone record or photograph him so that he can remain totally anonymous. By the end, however, I wasn’t sure if what I had just watched was real or another one of Banksy’s pranks. The film starts out telling the story of Thierry Guetta, an obsessive-compulsive, former shop owner who has a passion for documenting his everyday life. Guetta takes a trip back to France and meets up with his street artist cousin Space Invader and becomes very interested in street art. Through the networking of his cousin, he meets other street artists and starts filming them and following them wherever they go. Guetta eventually meets Banksy and Banksy agrees to let Guetta film him. Guetta takes thousands of hours of tape before anyone realizes that hes not actually making a film. They urge him to make a film, and what he produced was 90 minutes of unwatchable clips that were edited together as if someone was channel surfing. Banksy urged Guetta to work on an art exhibit so that he could take the tapes and try to make a watchable film out of it. Guetta’s resulting exhibition was not what I would call art, they were copies of other artists work that he changed to make his own. Mostly Andy...
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...Banksy is one of the most famous and mysterious street artists in the world. Helen Weaver, ‘’The Art in an America” magazine writer states that,” Banksy was born in 1974 and was raised in Bristol UK. When he first started spray painting, he was ten years old.” Banksy enjoyed the attention he received from the public. He loved using street art to express his emotion. In the early years the authorities worked hard to remove his pictures from public places. They considered his art vandalism, and destructive to the public property. Vandalism is when someone deliberately destroys public or private property. However, the public fought to save some of his pictures. Banksy is a very influential artist in his time. He was well respected, and recognized by his fans around the world. The Guantanamo art piece shows that Banksy...
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...spaces from advertisers with the slogan “reclaiming the streets.” He says advertisers and brands can’t reach out to young generation with old version of advertisements, like TV ads and radio spots. Fuchs used advertising professional from TBWA agency how this guerilla marketing is so popular and effective because this way can surprise people when they don’t expect advertisements. Rising of guerilla marketing made advertisers and brands to poach...
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...therapy and teaching tool. Music adjusts to our moods and used throughout our lives. Music leads to a healthy life. If you like it or not music is a huge part of our lives. Terry Guetta who owns a local clothing store in Los Angeles, and has this unusual obsession with videotaping. This obsession of recording everything happening in his life began after he started his family as a result of his missing childhood. What began as a hobby soon turned into Terry made-up leading him miles away from his family to board on a journey that would forever change his life. Terry began to explore the world of street art, a cultural experience where artists carved their mark on streets of major cities all over the world. Terry began to film every minute of his searching while meeting many of the noticeable street artists along the way. His journey first began by meeting the artist space foe that led...
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...work of an artist. Vandalism, the destruction of property, is the category that graffiti falls under in many countries. It is understandable that posting graffiti on a private small business is a criminal act. However, graffiti can and should be viewed as a form of art no matter the location. Many art museums have graffiti style pieces, which further reinforces the argument for graffiti being viewed as a work of an artists rather than a vandal. At the end of the day, graffiti is an antisocial (not accepted as a valid form of social expression) form of art. Modern graffiti originated in the 1960s and was used by teenagers as a form of expression; it eventually metastasized into a majority of urban environments and eventually found its way into art museums internationally (Whitehead, 26). However, as the popularity of graffiti grew, law enforcement began to view it as the work of criminal vandals and legislation was passed in an attempt to halt it. As time progressed graffiti’s social point of view has improved as its presence has decreased (Dennant 1997). Modern graffiti first appeared in the 1960s in Philadelphia (CIA). It was mostly about “tagging” or putting your name on a piece of public property. However, as graffiti began to spread to places like New York, where it covered the subway system, it began to develop from “tagging” to full blown mural paintings (Whitehead, 27). From the 1970s to 1990s, graffiti more commercialized as an art form and artists like Jean-Michel...
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... 1 Seminar in Art History Aesthetics October 8, 2013 Research Proposal Banksy From what we know now graffiti can be said to have dated as far back as ancient history. From the existence of the first prehistoric cave paintings to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, an identity to the way of living that existed in those periods of time was discovered. Now in the modern era the artistic form of graffiti has changed its style once more. In the late 1980s and early 1990s a new wave trend of hip hop music was transformed and therefore, spawned a new culture of artistic expression. Better known now as street art or illegal art, several graffiti artists such as the most well known urban street artist Banksy, find themselves out of place in today’s society. This is due to the fact of the different way of order that limits these expressions primarily by the government’s control and power. What we once saw in early history as normal, has now been taken for granted and those important expectations of life have been forgotten. Banksy’s street art responds to these social inclinations in an illegal and yet clever aesthetic way, where his identity remains unknown and his art revealed. In a brief research of my sources it can be said that what is already known about graffiti in general...
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...unique meaning. Magical realism has since developed into a literary genre; it represents more than just a definition. Magical realism has, in essence, become a philosophy, a real way of seeing things. It also represents much more than an attitude, or a window to view the world; it has become a philosophy of life. The very wording itself is an oxymoron (Rodgers, 2002). According to many critics, Magical Realism was thought to have originated, as a new art form, in the early twentieth century. Having been given credit for coining the term, Franz Roh, writes about this new art form in one of his articles. The 1925 article “Magical Realism,” Mr. Roh explains Magical Realism through the examination of artistic styles. He further explained that an artist may review the texture, the light, and the shape of an object to influence the portrayal of what is simply a caricature of reality; there isn’t any significant meaning other than the obvious real qualities of what is being examined. Mr. Roh continues to explain that Magical Realism can also be used, in contrast, to portray something having boring yet deep meaning. Only in the realm of Magical Realism can you stimulate an exciting and intellectual thought of the ordinary real world (Roh, 1925). Magical realism tells stories as seen through the eyes of individual people who live in our real world, but...
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...Levittown house they were clueless to the impact that their Model- T Ford would summon on the new modern art era. Hundreds of artists filled the modern era, but Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Banksy were among the few who were influenced by the new industrial world to change the face of art. In 1887, Marcel Duchamp was born to an artistic family in France. At age sixteen, he desired to be a painter (Stafford). Duchamp was introduced to the Dada art movement that sprung up in 1914. Leadership, bourgeois culture and support of war disgusted the Dadaists and they eliminated the act of labeling art (The Art Story Foundation). So Duchamp moved to New York in 1915 to begin production on his new readymade art. He took everyday objects, a bicycle wheel or snow shovel, put it in a gallery and let the consumer deem it art. The most notorious work of Duchamp, and considered the most influential piece of modern art (Higgins), a urinal turned on its back and renamed Fountain shown at an exhibition for the Society of Independent Artists in 1917 (The Art Story Foundation). A urinal, undoubtedly plucked off an assembly line months before, intended for public usage, was sitting in a gallery underlining the interdependency between art and realistic life. Duchamp's concept straight off the industrial conveyer belt that reality is art opened doors for other artists. Modern artist, Andy Warhol made his own twist on realistic art. As a child, Warhol showed interest in photography and drawing. After...
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...In the early 2000s Banksy moved to his artistic activity to London where his popularity started to rise to an international level. Some of his prominent works from London are the London Phone Booth (sold for $605,000 dollars by Sotheby’s Auction); Queen Victoria (sold for $478,095 dollars by Sotheby’s Auction); Very Little Helps; Choose Your Weapon; and more. Avoiding traditional galleries, Banksy hosted exhibitions of his art in the abandoned locations, such as, tunnels and warehouses, which he justified by stating: “When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.” Banksy wanted to be available to everyone to the contrary of the traditional artists. As a matter of fact, he gives out...
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...Artist research Banksy His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed 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 made up 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, Jeff Aerosol, who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarchy-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Banksy says, however, that he was inspired by "3D", a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack. Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls, even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt...
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...Banksy and Terry are two extreme lovers of art that met at the right place at the right time. Banksy and Terry are both from Britain. But now, they both live in the US. In 2006, Banksy came to the USA and met Terry, who also has obsessive compulsive disorder. The two were benefiting from each other’s personal interest. Banksy is known as a graffiti street artist. Terry is the man who loves to video tape anything and everything. They both have obsessive compulsive disorder which drives them crazy and they want attention. Banksy's art is everywhere and his signature is on everything, on dry land and even in the middle of the ocean. But the artist was unknown for years, which makes him even more famous. People really want to know who Banksy is....
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