The artist Banksy is a well known street artist who uses the alias Banksy to cover up his real identity. Even though the artist is well known there is not a lot about him because he covers his identity which adds to the mystery around his work and the meaning behind his work. The artist has done many pieces across the world and has had a documentary made about him and his work in New York in October 2013. The documentary shows many sides of the artists work and the fans of the work and how they perceive his work. There are many positive perceptions of his work and also many negative, saying that he isn't a street artist any more and the work work that he does is simple and not art. I personally really like his work as he addresses the problems from around the world and the places he goes by his work.
My favourite art work that he has made is the car in New York in an alley way where he created the piece with a car which was talking about the American soldiers that shot these innocent civilians in Iraq and laughed about what they had done and having no respect rot these people. The piece is called “Crazy Horse” it is called this due to the nick name that the part of the army was called as they were called the horse clan and them killing the innocent people was them being crazy, hence it being called “Crazy Horse”. I really like this piece because he has brought up an issue which is very sensitive, especially in America, as they don’t really talk about these kinds of issues; by doing this Banksy is allowing the people in America to see this piece and to talk about how in humane and disgusting these people were killing the innocent people in Iraq. This is what I would like to do with my work by brining up the issue about the media controlling what we see and governments controlling what we see also anyhow their country is perceived across the globe; mainly by covering up the bad parts of their country and even not telling the citizens of the country. The piece that Banksy made, the car, also had an audio to play via his website around the piece. This audio had two parts. The first part was the audio of the men on the radio killing the people and them laughing, the second part was some one talking about the piece and what it meant. This I feel really gives the piece another level, because now the intonation work has an audio to it giving a different feel compared to without the audio, and I feel really enhances the piece.
Another of my favourite pieces by Banksy that I really like is the rioter throwing the flowers. I really like this piece because Banksy has given a different view on the rioter and made the situation have a comical side to it, which I feel works well towards the piece. The piece was inspired by the campus riots in the 1960’s where a rioter was thawing coming ant the people and Banksy turned the photo into something positive by having the rioter throwing a bouquet of flowers. The piece is called “Rage Of The Flower Thrower” and I really like it as it gives the views of the art a different perspective on how the media portrays people, which I really want to do with my work.
I personally have experimented with spray paint with a range of different methods, from just holding the stencil down with my fingers, to taping the stencil down. I have also used many different materials for the stencil from paper to card and I can personally say that the card is a lot better to use. I found spray painting quite hard to do when doing the exam work for AS Art and I have a new found respect for this kind of art because it is really hard to use a stencil and the spray paint because the paint seeps through parts of the stencil that you have not covered properly, which is really hard to stop. I have found that the artist Banksy uses automotive spray paint because it is thicker and sticks together, so will not run as much as the normal spray paint.
Overall I really like Banksy is the way that he includes the media issues in his work and I want to include this in my work because I am really interested in how the media constructs what we see and how we see it; also how the government covers up parts of their country like not many people in Germany talk about the world wars and the way that America covers up police brutality and Area 51 is all covered up, to apparently protect people in the country. I also chose Banksy as an artist because the sense of realism that he makes with his art work, this is because he uses real world issues in his work and the art that he creates is in the publics eye and on the street, which also makes his work have a sense of realism too which I feel adds to his work and the meaning of his work.
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