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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Exit through a gift shop.


"Exit through a gift shop" was a film documentary filmed by thierry guetta and directed by street artist banksy. the film they had created is about the life of street artists and street art. This film portrayes different aspects of street art for e.g stenciling,tileing and big posters rolled out on to big walls and streets surfaces. With the help of his trusted friend Thierry Guetta whos now better Known as the street artist "Mr Brainwash" they teamed up with the likes of renown street artists.


Banksy himself

Mr brainwash

Seizer

Neckface

Ron English

Swoon

Borf

and Buffmonster. to make such a controvesial buh yet exciting documentary.


blog question: to select an image and talk about it using the language of what rebbecca talked about.


Banksy Change


The scale of this image in this photo is so small but with it comes great meaning with the scale the size of the sky tower in my opinion. What i like most about this image is the controversial meaning it has around it. the image is basically symbolising political change, the authority and i think governmentment issues. it's symbolic meaning is shown perfectly within this image of a poor man who ask's not for coins but asking for change in this world. Also I like the use of colour's been used in this image the red white and black. this symbolises power with red symbolising love or violence,White symbolising positive and black symbolising death in the terms in wich our lecturer leilani had given lastweek. to me the colours and the image represent perfectly what banksy is trying to portray. he portrayes us street artists controversy towards the authority.

2 comments:

tesla said...

Thanks Junior,

You describe the image in terms of meaning and symbolism, but you don't use the kind of vocabulary Rebecca introduced. I'm not sure if you were present for the lecture, but that vocabulary is posted on emit.

TX

MAHA****************** said...

I beleive everything changes but it always remains the same