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Saturday, April 16, 2011

practitioner BANKSY.




BANKSY

for my essay i am going to talk about the world renown and subversive street artist banksy. the reason for choosing banksy is because i admire his controversial art aswell as his use of technique using stencil art, spray paint and graffiti. I also like his sculptural art and filmaking.



BAKNSY artwork 1
With this artwork i just find funny. obviously as you can see in this image banksy is not a big fan towards the police and law enforcement system



BANKSY'S "NAPALM"

this work here i also found very interesing. its about how the usa launched a nuclear bomb in napalm vietnam and this little young vietnamese girl trying to escape running away with the help of ronald mcdonald and mikey mouse who are two american commercial figures. this also symbolises the fact that there fellow american heroes who are meant to be protecting and serving their country are in a different country bombing places with innocent children.




BANKSY'S "CHANGE"


My last piece of artwork from bansky "change" i find one of my fav artworks from banksy not only because of the image buh also the text used in the image and its meaning behind it. i find it very anti towards authority and the government with the way they deal with political issues and the abuse of power that they hold



5 comments:

janjan said...

Banksy ayye?, thats typical, but should be easy to do an essay on.
since we all studied him for art. you wont have any trouble writing yrou essay.

junior.A said...

thanx bro.

tesla said...

Thanks Junior,

What is coming up in your choice of 3 images is quite political. I hope you do some research into the politics behind each image. You might want to research the Situationists, where anti-cop graffiti first started in Paris 1968. Also, find out more about the Vietnam war (eg. no nuclear weapons used, Napalm is different - find out about what it does to people). Can you find the original photograph of the girl running naked and burned from Napalm? Who took it?

What kind of change do you think the last guy is actually looking for? What kind of politics do you think Banksy is espousing? Maybe you should check out Naomi Klein, No Logo, or the Adbusters magazines.

TX

Chatty Chat Chat said...

Ronald,
your comment does not include any references, suggestions or insights. This is not going to assist Junior when he needs to write his essay
Hobbs

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

Ronald ayye ?