Works by Banksy (Banksy)
Banksy(Banksy) is a brilliant street artist, filmmaker and political activist from England. Banksy's work on display famous galleries and valued in the millions of dollars. Banksy's street art has gained popularity through his work, including. The scale and geography of the street works painted by him makes one wonder and follow his work. Banksy is known to many, but no one has seen his face, which is why he enigmatic personality and cancellation of accounts in in social networks creates intrigue around his personality. At the beginning of his work, he behaved like an ordinary graffiti writer. Later she began to create original and conceptual black and white stencils. Banksy always acted quickly and irrevocably, which distinguished his manifesto from other artists. He demonstrates street art street art on the street and, first of all, for the residents of the city. Over time, the themes of Banksy's street art work have become socially significant and political in nature and have a deep content. In each work painted on the wall, roof, facade or end of the store, Banksy puts his hidden meaning that only he knows about.
Who is Banksy?
Banksy still does not reveal his real name and continues to create street art, stencils and paintings. Since throughout his work he manages to remain anonymous, there is no reliable data on his biography. There are only suggestions that he was born in 1974 in Bristol, England.
Read the biography and see 100 photos the best works Banksy (Banksy).
Banksy: artist, 100 graffiti photo works
All of Banksy's street art work is illegal, so no one knows his travel routes. Every day it becomes more and more difficult for him to hide from the police. In order to complete the conceived art projects faster, the artist has to work at night and use stencil technique. Banksy chooses crowded public places for his outrageous graffiti in order to get the greatest resonance from society. The official website of Banksy is visited by tens of thousands every day, but in order to improve the quality of work we have made one of the most top picks his street art works, large-scale projects, stencils and installations.
Banksy stencils
His paintings on the walls of buildings, asphalt, fences and bridges of cities around the world are accompanied by phrases and epithets of the political and social direction, enliven and transform the urban landscape into another space. At one of the exhibitions in hometown Bologna, he invited his colleague in creativity.
Street Art Movie - Exit Through the Gift Shop
He made his first directorial debut in 2010 with Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop. At the Sundance Film Festival, the film was presented as the world's first street art "disaster film". The film tells the story of street art artists and Banksy himself. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary by the American Film Academy. It grossed over $5 million at the box office.
P183 R.I.P.
In 2013 after tragic death Russian artist Banksy posted on his website a spray can of paint in the form of a burning candle in honor of his eternal memory, making the signature below - “P183 R.I.P.”.
At the 18th Annual Webby Awards in 2014, Banksy was awarded Person of the Year. In February 2015, the artist traveled incognito to the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Video and photos of this event can be viewed.
Banksy's art work is now valued at millions of dollars. The real estate on which they are drawn significantly exceeds the value of the adjacent buildings. Therefore, their damage is equated to vandalism. Artist Banksy continues to draw and delight his fans with new works of street art in the most unusual places.
art lovers, public figures and graffiti artists who love creativity Banksy is of interest due to the bright, patriotic and acute social nature of the projects. He is recognized as an outstanding figure in the arts. Loyal fans follow all the new works of the elusive graffiti guru. “SOME become cops to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals in order to make the world look better, ”says Banksy.
Where is the Banksy exhibition in Moscow?
- The exhibition takes place in the Central House of Artists (Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val). Address: Crimean shaft, 10;
- opened in 2018 (Central House of Artists), which is very popular among fans of his work.
- August 15, 2018 - Banksy said that he had nothing to do with the exhibition in Moscow. Read more about this situation.
All that is known about Banksy is that he was born in Bristol around 1974, which may or may not be called Robert Banks. That what he does is illegal and at least falls under the articles of "vandalism" and "hooliganism", because he hides his face and is in no hurry to bathe in the glory, and communicates with exhibition curators and journalists exclusively through an agent. At the same time, his works are sold at fabulous prices for a "hooligan". On the eve of the next auction, which will sell his graffiti "Girl with a Flower" (estimate, by the way, 150 thousand dollars), the editors of the Weekend project compiled a guide to the most significant works by Banksy, which can explain why a grown man runs around the roofs at night with a stencil and paint can.
"Pulp Fiction" / Pulp Fiction (2002)
© Photo: ART SERIES HOTEL GROUP"Pulp Fiction" by Banksy
This image, which appeared in 2002 near Old Street Underground Station in London, replicated a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film with cinematic accuracy, except for one detail: the heroes of Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta were carrying bananas instead of guns.
In April 2007, the London Transport Service painted over the graffiti because of the "excessive cruelty of the depicted scene and the corrupting effect on society." At that time, the estimated value of the work reached 300 thousand pounds. The press service of the company explained the actions of the employees succinctly: "In our state there are professional cleaners, not professional art critics."
The stencil is still popular: at the end of 2011, the Australian hotel chain announced a promotion: as part of the Steal Banksy game, Banksy's work appeared in one of the chain's hotels, and any guest could take it away, and if the "theft" was not noticed by security , then the "criminal" could keep the illustration for himself. Two works participated in the action: No Ball Games and Pulp Fiction. As a result, the tenants managed to take out only the first work worth 15 thousand dollars, while the second one was sent by the chain's owners to Crime Stoppers Australia, which put it up for auction. In hotels, for a long time after that, there was an announcement that the action was over and it was no longer worth "stealing".
Kissing Constables / Kissing Policemen (2004)
Graffiti in London's Brighton near Trafalgar Street has become a kind of attraction: any tourist considered it his duty to include the wall next to the Prince Albert Pub in his itinerary. But just a year after the creation, the image was transported to New York and sold at auction.
Banksy's work inspired the Russian art group "Blue Noses" to create the controversial photograph "Era of Mercy" (2004). Three years later, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov called the exhibition Tretyakov Gallery in Paris (2007), at which it was planned to present this work, and then completely accused the management of the Tretyakov Gallery of deliberate provocation. Sokolov promised to do everything to ensure that the picture did not get to the review. The photograph did not participate in the exposition "Sots Art. Political Art in Russia", but it got to the international art fair FIAC, which was held in Paris at the same time.
£10 with Princess Diana (2004)
© Banksy Banknotes with Princess Diana Banksy (Banksy's Princess Diana Banknotes)
In 2004, Banksy made a batch of 10-pound notes, where the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was replaced by the portrait of the deceased Lady Di, and the inscription "Bank of England" was corrected to "Banksy of England". It is difficult to say whether the joke was a success: several banknotes were handed out at the Notting Hill Carnival festival, the banknotes began to diverge, and almost no one noticed the difference until the artist himself realized that he had unwittingly become a counterfeiter:
"I printed a million pounds, I just wanted to throw it off the roof, but I gave a few away at the festival, and they went and spent it. You know:" I have two beers "- they were given beer. Nobody noticed! And when it happened, we understood: we faked a million! And for this you can thunder for ten years. And now they lie with me and I don’t know what to do with them, "he tells his friend in documentary"Exit through the gift shop."
In October 2007, an uncut sheet of ten of these notes went under the hammer at a Bonhams auction for £24,000.
"Napalm" / Napalm (2004)
Symbols on the graffiti American culture Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse holding hands of a crying naked girl. Her image is from a Napalm image taken on June 8, 1972 by Associated Press photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut during the Vietnam War. A 9-year-old girl flees her home in the Tran Ban area with her brother and other children after a heavy bombing. Children run along the road leading from Saigon towards the border with Cambodia, where the Civil War and territories were constantly attacked by the US Air Force.
There is no need to comment on this work by Banksy. Coincidentally, it is this print - scourge of the consumer society - that is most popular in America, and is replicated on T-shirts, mugs and other souvenirs.
Graffiti in Palestine (2005)
© Banksy
In the summer of 2005, Banksy went to Palestine. Despite protests from the UN, west bank Jordan River, a multi-meter concrete barrier was erected between Palestine and Israel. The artist used the wall as a 425 mile long canvas to express his reaction to the events of the time. Every morning on his website, he published another drawing from the wall with a caustic caption: "Festive snapshot." Most often, children became the characters of graffiti, as the main victims of the military conflict, and the wall, according to the plot of the illustration, was necessarily destroyed.
Banksy later explained the message on his website:
"The Israeli government is building a wall around the occupied Palestinian territories. It is three times the height of the Berlin Wall, and eventually reaches 700 km in length - the distance from London to Zurich. The wall violates international law and, in essence, turns Palestine into the largest world's open prison."
Phone Booth Corpse/Crumpled Phone Booth (2006)
The sculpture stood in London's Soho for only one night - and during that night it managed to cause a heated discussion. The townspeople were divided into two camps: the first saw a high modern Art, the second - a mockery of the main symbol of London. British Telecommunications regarded the work as a reaction to the message about the rebranding and the intention to abandon classic look pay phones.
"Someone is very annoyed by our phone booths!" comments a passing lady in the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
There is a version that this is a peculiar mourning of the artist for the outgoing culture of live communication in the era of the development of the Internet and social networks.
Naked Man Hanging from Window (2006)
The graffiti was painted on the wall of an STD clinic on Park Street in central Bristol. The plot of the illustration is eternal: a completely naked lover hangs from the windowsill, and a jealous husband looks out of the window in the other direction, his wife in her underwear behind him. And if the man in the suit turns his head the other way, the couple will be caught in an awkward situation.
The city council decided to keep the drawing and even paid for its restoration after vandals shot it with a paintball gun. Since then, the authorities have begun to treat graffiti as an art (albeit still banned), and it is considered vandalism to paint over the work of street artists. But even despite this, Banksy still remains incognito - he broke the law too many times.
Prisoner of Guantanamo at American Disneyland (2006)
© Banksy
On the eve of another anniversary of September 11, when Banksy was preparing for an exhibition in Los Angeles, he came up with the idea to make an installation on the theme of terrorist suspects sitting in Guantanamo Bay. At Disneyland, he set up a dummy dressed as a prisoner next to the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction. The doll stood there for an hour and a half before it was noticed. The management stopped the attraction, began to close the park in parts, "suddenly it turned out that this was very, very serious." The purpose of the artist was to draw attention to the situation of prisoners at the American base at Guantanamo after cases of torture of prisoners became known.
Naturally, it is purely technically impossible for Banksy to act alone; there is, albeit a very narrow circle of people who know him and whom he can unconditionally trust. That day at Disneyland added another to the list: Frenchman Thierry Guetta. The future Mr Brainwash, who filmed the entire process on camera, was detained next to the Banksy installation and subjected to a four-hour interrogation.
"When Thierry stood up to the entire security service of Mickey Mouse, did not flinch, did not give up, he hid the cassette in his sock - after that I trusted him in everything. He was my man."
Film "Exit through the Gift Shop" / Exit through the Gift Shop (2010)
Initially, the picture was shot not by Banksy at all, but by the same Thierry Guetta. He was obsessed with videography and constantly said that he was making documentaries about street art. He was the first (and probably the last) person with a camera that Banksy let into the workflow:
"Thierry has become something of an outlet for me: I hid everything for so many years that it was time to trust someone."
The film did not really work out, Banksy took up editing on his own, and instead of a picture about a partisan artist from Bristol, a story came out about how Mr Brainwash was born. In fact, the Shrinkman is also a kind of brainchild of Banksy, because it was Banksy who inspired Thierry Guetta to make art, showed how to work with stencils, and recommended his first exhibition.
"Girl with a ball" has become a favorite picture of the British. Graffiti anonymous under the pseudonym Banksy bypassed the masterpieces of the classics. GEO tells how an Englishman became the number one artist, and recalls the main works of Banksy over the past fifteen years
text: Olga Dadykina
Considered the most meaningful work Banksy. Appeared in the South Bank, London area, in 2002. Behind the girl's back hot air balloon the words "Hope is always alive" are written. Photo: flickr.com
"Girl with a Red Balloon" appeared on the bridge across the Thames in 2002. The author of the work is an artist hiding under the pseudonym Banksy (Banksy). For twenty years, journalists and policemen have been chasing him. Since the late 1990s, he has been “bombing” the walls of his native Bristol and other cities with socio-political graffiti: the oppression of the civilian population in Palestine, the hypocrisy of politicians, refugees, capitalist greed in London - about 130 drawings in total.
In 2007, when Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Kate Moss, Jude Law and other celebrities began to buy Banksy's works, he turned from a bully into the main artist of our time. This instantly raised his stakes at the world's premier Sotheby's auction - six of his works went under the hammer for £372,000.
Three years ago, the artist was recognized as a cultural icon of the United Kingdom. According to surveys of young people from other countries, they associate English culture with William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, The Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, JK Rowling, Elton John, Adele and... Banksy.
In 2010, Time magazine included the Briton in the list of the 100 most influential people planet, along with Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Lady Gaga. Instead of a portrait, the article was illustrated with a photo with a paper bag on his head. Banksy claims that anonymity helps him hide from the police, ill-wishers and not distract attention from his work.
True, on June 22, 2017, DJ Goldie declassified the name of the artist: “Write in a graffiti font on a Banksy T-shirt - and everything is ready, you can sell it. No offense to Robert, I really think he is wonderful artist, he turned the world of art, ”said a friend of the artist in an interview. The journalists concluded that under the pseudonym British musician Robert Del Naya, the leader of the Massive Attack group, is hiding. A year earlier, a journalist Daily Mail has already suggested that Robert Del Naya is hiding behind the Banksy mask. He traced the places where graffiti appeared and compared them with the cities of Massive Attack's music tours.
Hi all! How nice to know that so many people, visiting the blog "On the Edge", expand their horizons by studying different sides life. Today's topic is art. There is such a variety of directions in the world: music, painting, sculpture, street art, body art and others.
Everyone can find what he likes. Personally, artists inspire me. This incredible people with their vision of the world, many do not want to understand them, especially those who depict negative sides life, harsh reality preferring to live in a world of illusions.
Whether it is worth condemning such people is difficult to answer. After all, if you look at life only through the prism of pessimism, then we will not be able to consider the good side. Seeing only the optimistic side, we will not be able to truly appreciate those moments of happiness that come across, taking them for granted.
Banksy is an enigmatic artist
Live in balance, then you will be able to enjoy life. The artist I would like to talk about is famous for his mystery and a special view of the world. Banksy's work photos, which you can see here, will make you think about many things.
Any artist invests in his work, which he wants to convey to the viewer. You don't have to be a big connoisseur art to understand the importance of Banksy paintings.
Each of the paintings is conceived with a certain subtext. Most do not even suspect that the "ordinary" pictures on the wall of an inconspicuous building, painted with a spray can, are the work of a famous master.
Famous works of Banksy and their brief description
For the past 20 years, the artist has pleased his fans with the appearance of his works in the most unexpected places. Banksy raised art street graffiti on new level. Most of his work focuses on social issues, showing problems that we do not want to notice. Even the names speak for themselves.
The painting "Migrants are not welcome here"
Is this not, in a way, indicators of an absentee judgment about strangers who were forced to leave their homes. People sometimes forget about humanity for the sake of their bias. Until it touches us, we will not understand what it is. This is what Banksy wants to convey to us.
Or his painting of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple who was a Syrian migrant.
"No future"
Also a symbolic vision human life. We were consumed by the idea that every action or deed must have a meaning. People have ceased to think spiritually, seeking profit in everything.
Or is it the message "When will the wars end?"
Where people with machine guns surrounded a tired elephant. Many will treat the search for a reflection philosophically. Like, human nature is a constant struggle for territory, fossils and other benefits. But, in fact, the war is ruinous and now it is much more profitable to agree than to spend resources on a meaningless, even unprofitable occupation.
"London Maid"
A kind of caricature of Europe's attitude to the rest of the world. There is no concept of conscience, because if you take care of all those in need, then you yourself will remain a loser. The picture lasted about a week until the authorities, considering it provocative, painted over the wall.
"Please love me"
And although love is considered a sublime feeling, the artist wants to show the practical side of feeling with this picture. Pointing out that appearance is not important, the main thing is the commonality of views on things. Then the chance to keep the duration of love is much higher, in comparison with falling in love after the first meeting.
"Differences of views, different people on the same things"
We are all different and sometimes these differences lead to conflict. So the picture shows two people from different layers. One stands for love, the other is symbolically against, condoning violence. Obviously, aggression always wins.
The painting "Enough Heroes" - "No more Heroes"
Men in last years so used to solving their problems at the expense of others. Waiting to be rescued by heroes, or even trying on this mask. What the result will be after us is not important. The illusion is created that any loser can become a hero, but this is not so. With such thoughts, humanity expects collapse.
Describe the paintings of Banksy can be long. It is important to understand that the vision of this artist carries with it a view from the outside, which is necessary for each of us to stop and think for a minute. Perhaps then this world can be saved.
Art for everyone
Banksy creates his masterpieces for the soul. One of his paintings, painted on front door youth club in Bristol "Mobile Lovers", is charitable. She gained incredible popularity, which saved the club from closing.
Another of the most famous paintings by Banksy is Slave Labor, written specifically for the 60th anniversary of the celebration of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The sale of the painting brought the artist more than 750,000 euros.
Banksy's famous documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. It was even nominated for an Oscar in 2011 as the best feature documentary.
A recent achievement, organized by the Banksy amusement park, only with a certain ironic accent. Peculiar flip side famous Disneyland.
Many celebrities get tattoos famous paintings Banksy, paying tribute to the artist, who, despite criticism, defends his point of view of the world.
The main intrigue of Banksy's personality is the incognito that he has kept for so many years. Although during the painting of the wall of one of the pubs in London, Banksy's face lit up on a video camera. And British scientists, in all seriousness, claim that they have declassified the identity of the artist, he turned out to be, judging by their calculations, Robin Genningham.
There was no confirmation from the artist himself. So it remains for the viewers and fans of the street artist's talent to judge whether this is true or not.
The street produces great artists
Creating your famous movie Banksy has worked with many talented and famous artists street art. One of them was Space Invader, whose name is associated with the game of the late 70s, space invader.
The Invader became famous by drawing pixel mosaics, but not just randomly depicting them, but carefully choosing his plot and places for it. Such unusual plan intrusions.
But the undisputed classic of pop art is Andy Warhol, whose work served as inspiration for many emerging artists.
He was one of the first to use screen printing. Now this trick makes life much easier. street artists helping to save time. After all, in many countries street art is an illegal act of vandalism, for example in England.
Russian street art artist Pavel 183 gave us his art until he left. He gained his fame after the English media compared his talent to the famous Bansky. Since that time, friends of Pasha 183 began to call Banksy, the English Pasha.
Famous for his talent and the French mural painter Thierry Guetta, his joint work with Banksy, in a documentary, where he was assigned the main role added even more popularity. As an emigrant who moved to the City of Angels and opened his own business, he did not think then that he would be conquered by the art of street art.
Although his style is different from Banksy, he uses ready-made photo images, bringing something new to them, leaving his mark.
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