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百度百科 网页新闻贴吧知道网盘图片视频地图文库资讯采购百科百度首页登录注册进入词条全站搜索帮助首页秒懂百科特色百科知识专题加入百科百科团队权威合作下载百科APP个人中心班克西播报讨论上传视频英国街头艺术家收藏查看我的收藏0有用+10班克西(Banksy),男,1974年出生于英国布里斯托,英国街头艺术家,被誉为是当今世界上最有才气的街头艺术家之一。 [1]2021年5月12日,世界著名拍卖行苏富比完成了对Banksy(班克斯)标志性抗议艺术作品 "Love is in the Air "的加密拍卖,成交价为1290万美元。 [2]中文名班克西外文名Banksy别 名班克斯国 籍英国出生日期1974年职 业街头艺术家出生地英国布里斯托性 别男目录1早年经历2艺术风格3主要作品4合作画廊5相关事件早年经历播报编辑班克西的父亲是影印机的技工。1988年班克西被中学除名,以后成为英国涂鸦风潮的中坚人物。他是伦敦最有名的涂鸦艺术家。常在英国各地的美术馆用换包的形式,将世界名作换上自己修改的仿作,不时引起传媒轰动。班克西的作品(15张)如果说到伦敦的涂鸦,几乎没有人不提及他的作品。他的黑白色割版涂鸦看起来机智诙谐,极富颠覆性。班克西的作品里,有面带微笑的警察、拿着照相机的老鼠、挥舞武器的猴子……这些作品让观众获得一种意外的幽默,有人称他为幽默的街头诗人。2007年10月,他的作品在伦敦宝龙拍卖行拍卖,11幅作品以54.6万英镑的总价远超过30万英镑的估价,让拍卖行大为震惊。《爱文和萨默塞特警察局》这幅作品是11件作品中最贵的一件,拍得9.6万英镑。画面上,两名警察局正在通过望远镜仰望天空,幽默的站姿让人忍俊不禁。《袭击涂鸦男孩》的涂鸦拍得7.8万英镑,拍价位居第三的是《未命名作品老鼠和剑》,拍得6.48万英镑。由于涂鸦活动的非法性,早年班克西不仅被英国媒体称做“恐怖主义艺术”,他的“艺术”活动还常常受到警察打击和追踪,生活和“安全”都没有保障。截止2019年班克西已自行出版了3部作品集,也算享誉“涂鸦界”的他如今仍然保持着“游击队式”的生活——几乎从不对自己的作品发表看法,很少接受采访,也没什么人见过他的真面目。他的真实身份从来没有被正式公开过。艺术风格播报编辑对于“班克西”这个名字的来历,有人说是画家的姓氏,也有人说这只是他的化名。但是,班克西的低调并不掩盖他的大胆。班克西惯于艺术恶作剧,常在英国各地的美术馆用换包形式,将世界名作换上自己修改的仿作,不时引起传媒轰动。他的涂鸦遍布英国街道桥梁,在伦敦特拉法尔加广场他写过大胆标语“指定暴乱区域”,在泰特美术馆门外台阶上写过“小心垃圾”。十几年来,班克西创作了大量以现实生活和反战内容为题材的作品,风格以黑色幽默著称。主要作品播报编辑班克西主要作品2003年,Girl With Balloon(气球女孩)年创作在英国某一商店墙上《气球女孩》Devolved Parliament(被移交的议会),于布里斯托博物馆展出。 [4]Devolved Parliament(被移交的议会)2017年5月,他在英格兰东南部的多佛市创作了以脱欧为主题的壁画。 [4]班克西壁画作品2017年6月,班克西在Instagram上发了这样一张照片,英国成为一个有破洞的气球。 [4]班克西作品2012年,街头艺术家班克西在北伦敦一处廉价商店的外墙上绘制作品《奴工》。《奴工》10月12日,在英国伦敦苏富比拍卖行,工作人员展示班克西受毁画作《爱在垃圾桶》。 [5]《爱在垃圾桶》合作画廊播报编辑5Art Gallery [3]相关事件播报编辑2021年3月10日,一群艺术爱好者烧掉了世界著名街头艺术家班克西的作品《傻子》,随后拍卖了该画作的电子版本所有权。由于该电子版本经区块链技术处理后具有独特的标识,拥有该不可替代代码(NFT)就相当于拥有了它的所有权。最终该NFT以约合人民币247万的价格被拍卖。 [1]一男子拆走了班克斯画在路牌上的画作2023年12月22日,班克斯在社交媒体上展示了他的新作:伦敦南部一个街角的红色停车标识牌上涂鸦的三架军用无人机。然而,这幅涂鸦亮相还不到1小时就被人盗走。视频显示,一名男子手持钳子,当着围观众人的面,拆下了标识牌后在街角迅速消失。警方表示,截至25日,他们已逮捕了两名涉事男子,二人均被控犯有盗窃和刑事毁坏罪,但目前警方尚未找到失窃的涂鸦画,呼吁公众提供相关信息。 [6]新手上路成长任务编辑入门编辑规则本人编辑我有疑问内容质疑在线客服官方贴吧意见反馈投诉建议举报不良信息未通过词条申诉投诉侵权信息封禁查询与解封©2024 Baidu 使用百度前必读 | 百科协议 | 隐私政策 | 百度百科合作平台 | 京ICP证030173号 京公网安备110000020000班克西 Banksy是一个什么样的人? - 知乎
班克西 Banksy是一个什么样的人? - 知乎首页知乎知学堂发现等你来答切换模式登录/注册艺术设计涂鸦涂鸦文化班克西 Banksy是一个什么样的人?就是在晚上街头非法卖艺的那个...显示全部 关注者89被浏览97,603关注问题写回答邀请回答好问题 3添加评论分享12 个回答默认排序所以计划 关注2019年10月4日,一幅讽刺英国下议院的巨幅油画作品创下了988万英镑(8800万人民币)的个人拍卖纪录,却没有人知道该画的作者是谁。这个事情,还要从当代最有名的匿名者说起。他是全世界街头艺术第一人,没有争议。▲ 《Devolved Parliament》(《解散议会》)虽说没有一个时代是消停的,但我们所生活的二十一世纪从未消停过。也许是时势造英雄,在这冷战、凉战、内战、口水战、信息战、贸易战、科技战横行的新形态乱世中,世界各地有许多地方的人民也追随着一个属于他们的英雄。跟所有超级英雄一样,这个人以一己之力对抗强权和秩序。但跟所有传统的超级英雄一样,没有人知道他的真实身份。▲ Banksy本人今天我们就来介绍这个人,他叫Banksy,是一个街头艺术家。“Banksy(班克西),是一位匿名的英国涂鸦艺术家、社会运动活跃份子、电影导演及画家。他的街头作品经常带有讽刺意味,在旁则附有一些颠覆性、玩世不恭的黑色幽默和精警句子;其涂鸦大多运用独特的模板技术拓印而成。他的作品富有浓厚政治风格,俨如一种以艺术方式表达的社会评论,并已经在世界各地不同城市的街道、墙壁与桥梁出现,甚至成为当地引人入胜的城市面貌。”------《维基百科》起眼的老鼠就算你不记得Banksy的名字,也一定见过下面这幅作品。▲ 《Girl with balloon》/ 《Love is in the bin》2018年10月,Banksy作品《Girl with balloon》在拍卖出104万英镑的高价之后,框内原画被Banksy几年前安装的机关自动毁灭,并将作品重命名为《Love is in the bin》。目前该作品估值已翻倍。▲ 真正的“原作”但是在Banksy做了无数屌炸天又违法乱纪的行为并成为举(chòu)世(míng)闻(zhāo)名(zhù)的街头艺术家之前,他只是一个以老鼠自居的普通青少年,在英国的家乡布里斯托尔的街头默默留下了无数违法印记。在那个年代,街头艺术家就跟过街老鼠一样不被主流待见。▲ Banksy早期作品▲ “如果涂鸦能改变任何东西 - 它将是违法的”▲ “因为我没有价值”老鼠肮脏、丑陋,跟蟑螂一样卑微、人人喊打,而Banksy却对它情有独钟。他自己是这么解释的:老鼠的存在不需要得到许可。它们被仇视、猎捕、杀害。它们生存于肮脏的绝望之中。然而,它们却能让整个文明屈膝。如果你肮脏、不重要、没人爱,那老鼠是你最好的榜样。- Banksy▲ “禁止玩球”▲ “伦敦不工作”▲ “禁止钓鱼、洗澡和狗进入”Banksy对老鼠的钟爱一直延续至今,在很多后期作品中依然常见。他的创作手法以版模涂鸦(Stencil graffiti)和海报黏贴(Wheatpasted poster Art)为主,后期则不限于雕塑、装置及行为艺术。相比喷罐涂鸦(Spray-paint graffiti)而言,更具艺术性和传播性。▲ “你骗人”这些无处不在的老鼠作品不仅风趣幽默,还十分关注社会时事,从90年代起逐渐被英国人熟知,背后的Banksy也随之受到关注。▲ 反战系列▲ 老鼠革命▲ 贼眉鼠目▲ “这画的是个什么鬼?”2001年,Banksy搬到伦敦,结识了几个朋友,开始正式以艺术家身份活动。但他跟别的艺术家有一点不同。他匿名,且蒙面。匿名蒙面者在这个几分钟就能用人肉搜索找出一个人前世今生的科技信息时代,一位公众人物想要维持匿名状态似乎不可能。确实很难,所以全世界也只有Banksy一个人能做到。▲ 被时代杂志评为2010年最有影响力的100人时,Banksy提供给杂志的照片。再也没有杂志跟Banksy要照片了。为什么需要匿名蒙面?Banksy是这样说的:如果你希望别人听你想说的话,你必须戴着面具。- Banksy虽然Banksy的话似乎很有哲理,但根本原因其实是街头涂鸦大多属于违法行为。在那个年代,大部分街头艺术家都是匿名。所以执法机关无法追踪抓捕这些在大街小巷“乱涂乱画”的“犯罪者”。换句话说,Banksy可能是全世界最知名又最受欢迎的罪犯。▲ 法国禁止蒙面后,Banksy用“拿破仑”在巴黎为少数群体发声Banksy的作品当中也不泛蒙面题材。近期最著名的莫过于法国在推出禁蒙面法后,他在巴黎街头留下的一幅作品。该作品以经典的油画作品《Napolean Crossing the Alps》为原型,拿破仑身上原本威风凛凛的披风却被风吹到了脸上,塑造了一位蒙着脸的领导者形象。一位知名的Banksy评论家将其解读为:“一个盲目者领导着国家。”▲ Banksy用马赛克蒙面的方式戏谑天主教多位牧师恋童事件在街头艺术走入主流视野之后,许多街头艺术家为了方便活(zhuàn)动(qián),都选择露脸、公开身份。Banksy属于那一小部分保持匿名的街头艺术家,一方面让“Banksy”这个名字成为了一种象征,另一方面也是他不忘初衷、保持草根身份的一种方式。而在歌颂蒙面者的同时,Banksy也在为自己的行为正名。“他是象征着自由和反极权的无名之辈。” 他没有名字,他代表的是无名的大多数。▲ 《Rage, Flower Thrower》2005年作于耶路撒冷在《Girl with balloon》被绞碎之前,Banksy最有名的作品莫过于《Rage, flower thrower》。这幅画在耶路撒冷墙上的作品,展现了一个黑白色的蒙面示威者,手中投掷的不是砖头或燃烧弹,而是一束彩色的花。仿佛在鼓励大家“放下仇恨和暴力,我们可以用爱与和平交流。”这个作品引起了全世界范围无数人的共鸣,其影响力跨国界、跨种族、跨宗教、跨人群。而这幅画在某种程度上,也像是Banksy的一幅自画像:一个匿名蒙面者用爱与和平向强权示威。除此之外,Banksy也在冲突激烈的地区创作过无数反战、追求爱与和平的作品。▲ 想飞出以色列西岸的少女▲ Banksy官方网站放出的版本更具讽刺意味(包括没有购买Getty image而是使用截图的行为)▲ 瞄准和平鸽的心脏▲ Banksy在以色列西岸留下的许多作品都深入人心Banksy对饱受争议的政治话题从不手软,以一己之力挑战强权,以不公道的国家和政府为敌。比如2016年法国警察对难民使用催泪瓦斯和橡胶子弹的暴力事件,就被Banksy狠狠玩出了花。用象征法国民主革命的元素对法国政府进行讽刺,还用上了二维码高科技。▲ 《悲惨世界》中的小姑娘被催泪瓦斯催泪了https://youtu.be/OQCP_inka-Q (二维码自动识别)▲ 跟许多Banksy作品一样,很快就被“有关部门”处理了毫无意外,这不是Banksy唯一一次拿警察开刀。甚至可以说,警察是他除了老鼠之外最喜欢的题材。▲ 一部分Banksy的警察作品▲ 某一天Banksy在Instagram官方账号上放出的作品警察应该是人民公仆,但警察也可能沦为暴政的工具,当特权缺乏监督的时候,某些行为就未必是保护人民的,反而有可能造成伤害。Banksy成为了世间罕有的法外监督者,对权力机关进行着主观的判断和提醒。调侃过这些人民公仆,他当然也不会放过国家机器。他自己的祖国(英国)就最常沦为他讽刺的对象。▲ 窃听风云▲ 一个国家,一种监视▲ Brexit公投后Banksy送给祖国的作品上面这幅讽刺英国退欧决定的作品很快就被有关部门给擦除了。原图被擦除之后Banksy表示:“原本想在正式退欧之后将作品改成这样(下图),但是他们好像已经涂掉了,没关系,一面大白旗也符合我想说的话。”除了对自己的祖国(英国)毫不留情之外,Banksy对世界上其他强国也有很多话说:▲ 印第安人禁止非法入侵▲ 越战中的小女孩被资本主义绑架▲ “鼓掌!”▲ 在法国讽刺难民政策的作品在Banksy所有违法行为当中,最猖狂的一次莫过于批量印假钞。▲ Banksy设计的假钞,把“Bank”改成了“Banksy”,把女王换成了公主2004年Banksy伪造了总价值一百万英镑的10英镑假钞,其精良的制作水平足以以假乱真。完成之后他将大量假钞扔给了参加嘉年华的群众,许多不明真相的群众拿着钱就去酒吧买酒喝了。假钞被人使用之后,造假钞的行为就正式构成犯罪了,连Banksy自己都吓了一跳。然而最讽刺的是后来有一张假钞成为了大英博物馆收藏的第一件Banksy作品,可以说是最终得到了官方认可的疯狂违法行为。▲ Banksy在自己导演的纪录片《画廊外的天赋》中介绍了假钞项目的前因后果。该纪录片也获了几个奖。Banksy为什么要蒙面?为什么要匿名?看到这里想必已经明白了吧。有些话如果想让更多人聆听、想引起更多人的共鸣和支持,只能用违法的方式表达。而这些违法行为,则会成为被抨击的执法机关手中的把柄,有了正当理由进行逮捕或追踪。▲ “别忘了吃午饭和制造麻烦”▲ “涂鸦是犯罪”尽管Banksy想要传达的信息是反战、反暴力、反权威、反资本主义,是自由、爱与和平,这依然不能改变他在犯罪的这个事实。他仍可能因破坏公物、造假钞及其他违法行为而被多国警察通缉逮捕。所以他可耻的匿了。▲ 土耳其女艺术家Zehra Doğan在狱中向Banksy求助▲ Banksy在纽约街头用一大面墙霸气回应“由于画了这幅画被判2年9个月22天监禁”▲ 作品中可见拿着笔、受文字狱迫害的女艺术家Zehra肖像2018年土耳其女艺术家Zehra画了一幅油画之后被判两年以上监禁,她在狱中向Banksy求助,Banksy用纽约街头一大面墙霸气回应,声援Zehra。作品中Zehra手持铅笔,面无惧色。以一杆笔对抗极权、追求自由。这一点Banksy和Zehra都相似。他们都愿天下人能平凡而自由地活着。没有什么比一个想要让世界变得更好的人更危险。- Banksy弱者与强权当你一无所有的时候,涂鸦是你仍拥有的少数工具之一。- BanksyBanksy总是站在弱者的这一方,这从他花式讽刺资本主义和众多难民题材作品中可见端倪。▲ 难民的“冬天”▲ “我们不欢迎非洲的鸟”▲ “禁止玩球”法律理应保护弱者,却往往沦为上位者掌控权势的工具,形成暴政。正如政府本应保护人民,却时常成为利欲熏心的权利机关。媒体本应客观报道,却时常成为权势的喉舌。所以Banksy只能以违法的形式,替弱者伸张正义,向政府和法律宣战。法治为民而生,需符合大部分民意,保护大部分人的情感诉求,所以法治本身就包含着倾听、沟通和妥协。因为任何一个国家的主人都是人民,不是“法治”,更不是操控“法治”的手。但在这事不如人意的世界上,掌控权势的力量往往能扼杀弱者的声音。也幸好有Banksy这么一位罗宾逊式的侠盗存在于这个世界上,罔顾法律,无数弱者的声音才得以被世界所听见,从而获得关注。▲ Banksy引用了一段Paulo Freire的名言▲ 如果这是公园多好当你没有任何对抗强权的手段或工具时,艺术是一个不错的方法。这是Banksy给很多人的启发,也引起了无数人效仿。如今“Banksy”这个名字不再是一个人,而是一群人的象征。是一群不畏强权,奋起抗争的人。▲ 讽刺资本主义的系列▲ 我对人的兴趣(interest亦为“利息”)是0%Banksy的作品中总是充满了爱、人文关怀和幽默。他不像一个浑身带刺的愤青,更像一个玩世不恭的和平主义布道者。以至于很多人都很好奇他本人是个什么样的人。▲ Banksy为被虐待和囚禁的动物发声用另一位知名街头艺术家Mr. Brainwash在《画廊外的天赋》中的介绍:“他人就跟他的作品一样,很好,他……他……他……他……他……”他无法形容。我愿意相信他是一个善良的人,希望这世界上的弱者都能得到保护,都能有言论、信仰、免于贫困及免于恐惧的自由。▲ 好好学习如何涂鸦▲ 《这有点像一只大象》▲ 手机爱人▲ “对不起!你所追求的生活目前缺货”▲ 媒体能不能拍点美好的事物?▲ “追逐你的梦想”已被取消▲ 可能是Banksy最聪明的一个文字游戏Banksy热衷于挑战强权,他的挑战对象不止是国家、政府、媒体、资本主义,还包括整个艺术界。正如他绞碎了《Girl with balloon》一般,他也绞碎了整个艺术界对街头涂鸦的认知甚至是对艺术的认知。▲ Banksy的雕塑作品▲ Banksy画了大量讽刺传统艺术的作品▲ “我不敢相信你们这帮白痴竟然会买这破玩意儿” 现在你能懂《Girl with balloon》了吗?自从他21世纪初开始办个人展,已经一次次颠覆了人们对街头艺术的定义和想象,也用不拘泥于任何形式的作品一次次将人们对艺术的固有认知玩弄于鼓掌之间。▲ 你在看什么?▲ 手持涂鸦喷罐,吐出的是鲜花▲ 最原始的壁画也是街头涂鸦的一种▲ 《Elephant in the room》这是一只真象在《Devolved Parliament》(《解散议会》)拍出了8800万天价、刷新个人纪录之后,Banksy也很适时宜的对此事发表了官方吐槽。▲ Banksy在Instagram上官方吐槽Banksy先是引述了已故艺术家Robert Hughes的一段话,表示艺术的作用本应是提升智慧、引起情感共鸣。但现在价格本身成为了艺术的一个功能,它新的作用是待在墙上变得更贵。不同于“书”这种全人类共有的财产,艺术只属于买得起的人。想象一下如果每本有意义的书都价值100万,那对文化的冲击是多么可怕的灾难啊。然后他附上了自己的评论:“今晚的拍卖破了Banksy作品的价格纪录。可惜我不拥有这个作品了。”▲ 再回顾一下这幅拍出了天价的作品用艺术改变世界。Banksy用他自己的方式做到了。他一再打破不同意识形态所造成的隔阂,一再引起站在对立面双方的共鸣和认同。让这个两极分化越来越严重的世界保留着一丝温暖和一丝缓和的余地。我们可以来自不同的立场,有不同的声音和诉求。但是我们也可以互相尊重、理解和包容,以人性为底线,拒绝盲目和狂热的暴力与仇恨。如果人类缺少了沟通,失去了理智,那就跟《解散议会》画中的猩猩没有区别了。在这个不分对错、只分立场的年代,人人都要站队。而保持中立,往往就是与所有人为敌。但是,如果不得不选择一个立场站队,我希望你站的是“爱与和平”。墙是很强大的武器,是用来打人最痛的几样东西之一。- Banksy所以,请关注我们http://weixin.qq.com/r/FC6bgz-Eg2L8rXvg93sG (二维码自动识别)本文内容取材自:Banksy官方网站Banksy官方Instagram《画廊外的天赋》纪录片编辑于 2019-10-05 21:26赞同 1093 条评论分享收藏喜欢收起康石石绘画等 6 个话题下的优秀答主 关注Banksy,一个勇于打破既有规则的伟大艺术家。大家对Banksy最近的印象应该来自2018年10月在伦敦苏富比拍卖的一件作品,在140万美元落槌的一刹那,画面的一半被暗藏在画框中的裁纸机裁成了碎片,令在场观众一片哗然,也又一次强化了他“艺术届恐怖分子”的形象。要理解Banksy是什么样的人,要从他的背景和作品聊起:1. 谁是banksy?其实banksy只是一个艺名,这个问题至今没有一个肯定的答案,为了确认Banksy的真实身份,一位犯罪学家甚至动用了地理分析技术(一项用于搜捕罪犯的技术)。我们已知的bankesy的资料是,他1974年出生于英国布里斯托,14岁就因为调皮捣蛋被中学除名。学校里的每一个老师都觉得他是一个无可救药的孩子,这样一个普遍意义上的坏孩子,后来成为了21世纪最知名的艺术家之一。如果你走在英国的街头看到一幅幅幽默诙谐的黑白涂鸦,不用质疑这些正是banksy的作品。他坚持从事街头艺术,讽刺,颠覆,黑色幽默,为普罗大众创造具有共鸣的街头图像。由于街头涂鸦是违法行为,Banksy的工作在社会领域提出了有关公共艺术和故意破坏之间界限的问题。略讽刺的是,这些他曾经冒着入狱危险在深更半夜迅速喷涂的破坏行为,在今天有的被套上了保护罩,有的被私人收藏后在原址填充上了复制品,成为了珍贵的艺术作品。Banksy作品的艺术性在于,表面上看上去只是一些具有幽默和讽刺的图像,实际他的作品却是诱使观众思考他关于资本主义社会,广告,政治和人性等等信息的潜在严肃性。2. Banksy的作品Banksy一直坚持街头涂鸦,我们能从他的作品中看到爱,看到讽刺和批判,看到很多信息和思考。KissingCoppers(2004)上图画面被描绘为两个男性警察穿着典型的英国制服相拥接吻。这件作品最初喷涂在特拉法加街的阿尔伯特王子酒馆一侧,靠近布莱顿市中心的核心地带。在创建之前,Banksy的一位员工代表他找到酒吧老板寻求工作许可。酒吧老板说:“我的第一个想法是,'哦不'。我以为我们会遇到麻烦。”但在创作之后,一群穿制服的军官出现在酒吧前面观看这件作品并开始拍照。 2011年,整面墙被挖出来送到了美国拍卖。对于这幅作品的解读是多角度的,首先两个男性的接吻是试图促使社会对于同性恋的认可。选择警察的形象是为了展示一个警察的亲密的,脆弱的时刻,用来体现警察人性化的一面,这样的解读方向似乎有着banksy一直以来作品中所蕴含的理解的桥梁的影子。另一种解读是这样的图像只是试图讥讽警察而已。愤怒,花卉投掷者(2005)如果只看一眼,这幅作品就是一个遮住面部的暴乱分子。但是仔细往下看的话,整个画面透露着违和感,Banksy把一束鲜花放在了这样一个传统意义上的暴乱分子的手中。今天这幅画被有机玻璃保护在耶路撒冷车库一侧的墙上。通过用一束鲜花代替武器,班克斯提倡和平而不是战争,他选择在高冲突地区留下这种和平信息,传达了和平伴随着积极努力的信息。除了象征和平,生命和爱情之外,这件作品中的花束也可以被理解为纪念在古老的宗教冲突中失去的生命。这是Banksy利用艺术传递具有社会重要性的信息的一个很好的例子。凝固汽油女孩(2004-05)画面中心的女孩图像取自一张1972年越南战争的标志性照片,美国的汽油弹投向无辜的越南村庄,小女孩赤身裸体地逃跑,Banksy把她和米老鼠麦当劳叔叔并列让他们手拉手,小女孩痛苦惊吓的表情让米老鼠麦当劳叔叔那面带微笑的表情看起来异常诡异,给人一种非常扭曲和险恶的感觉。班克斯的这幅作品不仅包含着对美国的批判,还有对资本主义的批判。班克斯曾经说过:“世界上最大的罪行不是违反规则的人,而是人们遵守规则。人们遵守了投下汽油弹和屠杀村庄的命令。”除了广为人知的涂鸦作品之外,Banksy其实还有很多有意思的其他类型的作品,当然全都秉承了他“恐怖分子”式的,破坏性地挑战社会界限的内核。比如上图臭名昭著的纸币印刷,2004年,Banksy私人印刷了一百万的英镑,把英女王伊丽莎白的头像换成了更加受人民爱戴的黛安娜王妃的头像,原本印刷在纸币上的Bank of england置换成了Banksy of england。这件作品直接挑战了国家的货币法律,在不断的协商当中,最后Banksy的货币在一家公正公司的配合下允许发售。红衣主教之罪,是Banksy2011年的一件雕塑作品,作品本身是一个复制的18世纪的牧师胸像,马赛克处理过的脸,是在讽刺着这个牧师性丑闻的秘密。作品的旁边配有一句话。“我们总是很容易忘记天主教教义真正的意思,谎言,贪污,滥用”。2013年,一个中年男人在纽约的中央公园设立了一个摊位,摆卖Banksy的涂鸦作品的复制品,60美元一张,这一天下来总共也没卖出去几张。只有一个刚搬家的小伙子因为家里空想买三张贴墙上用。但是路人不知道的是,这些复制品实际都是出自Bansy只手,也就是说都是真迹。在拍卖会上动辄几十万美金的画作,在摊位上60美金都没人要,这次玩笑的对象直指艺术市场本身,可算是一个响亮的大嘴巴。Banksy从一个14岁被开除的顽劣少年,一个公然挑战法律和既有道德标准的街头破坏者,到被时代周刊评选为21世纪最有影响力的百位人物之一,可谓是一个出乎意料的大反转。这可能是因为Banksy勇于质疑我们生活的时代,并用巧妙的方式进行了回击吧。以上,望有启发———————————————————编辑于 2021-02-02 12:02赞同 141添加评论分享收藏喜欢
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Introduction & Top QuestionsEarly careerWest Bank murals, “Barely Legal,” and “Cans Festival”Exit Through the Gift Shop and booksDismaland, Walled Off Hotel, and later worksBanksy at auctionLegal battles
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Who is Banksy?Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who may have been born in Bristol, England. He is known for his anti-authoritarian art, often done in public places. He came to notice as a freehand graffiti artist. With wry wit and stealth, Banksy merged graffiti art with installation and performance art.When did Banksy paint on the West Bank wall?In 2005 Banksy painted a wall on the Palestinian side of the West Bank. On the viewer’s side, children play on a forlorn patch of earth; through an apparent hole in the wall, there is a scene of a perfect tropical beach.What is Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop about?Exit Through the Gift Shop is a 2010 film directed by Banksy. It is a documentary that ostensibly profiled the lives and work of the world’s most talented graffiti artists. Critics were divided on the film, though, as some chose to accept it at face value while others saw it as a satire.How much did Banksy's Devolved Parliament sell for?In 2019 Banksy's Devolved Parliament, an oil painting depicting chimpanzees debating in the British House of Commons, sold for about $12.1 million.Banksy (born 1974?, Bristol?, England) anonymous British graffiti artist known for his antiauthoritarian art, often done in public places. Early career Banksy: Snorting CopperSnorting Copper, stenciled graffiti by Banksy on Curtain Road, in Shoreditch, London, c. 2005; it was later covered over.(more)Though Banksy’s identity was well guarded, he came to notice as a freehand graffiti artist in 1993. Using stencils since 2000 to enhance his speed, he developed a distinctive iconography of highly recognizable images, such as rats and policemen, that communicated his antiauthoritarian message. With wry wit and stealth, Banksy merged graffiti art with installation and performance. In the 2003 exhibition “Turf War,” he painted on the bodies of live pigs. At his “Crude Oils” exhibition in London in 2005, which featured altered replicas of the works of Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Edward Hopper, he released 200 live rats in the gallery. In 2005 Banksy, fully disguised, installed his own works on the walls of major museums in New York City and London, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Britain.
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West Bank murals, “Barely Legal,” and “Cans Festival” Banksy: Well Hung LoverWell Hung Lover (2006), mural by Banksy in Bristol, England; the blue paint was added by vandals.(more)In 2005 Banksy also painted a wall on the Palestinian side of the West Bank: on the viewer’s side, children play on a forlorn patch of earth, while through an apparent hole in the wall there is a scene of a perfect tropical beach. Banksy described himself as a “quality vandal,” challenging the authority of political and art institutions on both the right and the left. In September 2006 his one-weekend Los Angeles warehouse installation “Barely Legal,” for which he decorated a live elephant, attracted large crowds despite a lack of publicity. In Bristol, England, in 2006 he depicted a naked man clinging to a windowsill on the side of a public family-planning clinic; local residents voted to keep the mural. In 2008 Banksy’s “Cans Festival”—a play on the Cannes film festival—encouraged visitors to add their own art to a south London rail tunnel on which he and 40 international artists had done airbrush paintings. The following year he staged a surprise show at the City Museum and Art Gallery in Bristol. It featured animatronics, oil paintings, and an old ice-cream truck. Exit Through the Gift Shop and books Banksy: Clacton-on-Sea muralMural by Banksy at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England, 2014. It was removed by the council following complaints that it was racist.(more)Banksy’s books—which included Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (2001), Existencilism (2002), and Wall and Piece (2005)—documented his projects; iconic examples of his work, including a life-size image of two policemen kissing, were featured in the bleak futuristic film Children of Men (2006). Banksy directed the 2010 film Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary that ostensibly profiled the lives and work of the world’s most talented graffiti artists. Critics were divided on the film, though, as some chose to accept it at face value while others saw it as a satire, with documentary subject and filmmaker-turned-street artist Thierry Guetta (who, some theorized, was an actor paid by Banksy or was, perhaps, Banksy himself) serving as a commentator on the commercialization of art. Dismaland, Walled Off Hotel, and later works Banksy: DismalandDismaland, a temporary amusement park and conceptual art show created by Banksy, with contributions from other artists, in Weston-super-Mare, England, 2015.(more)Banksy: DismalandA mural by Banksy at Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare, England, 2015.(more)In September 2015 Banksy debuted Dismaland, his most elaborate project to date, in Weston-super-Mare, England. The temporary amusement park and conceptual art show, which included work from other artists, was described by Banksy as “a family attraction that acknowledges inequality and impending catastrophe.” Among the sites and features was a fake security checkpoint created by Bill Barminski where visitors’ belongings were examined in a cardboard X-ray machine, and disgruntled greeters circulated through the park wearing shirts that read “Dismal.” The park also hosted late-night parties and concerts by various bands. Dismaland closed in September 2015. Banksy’s next grand-scale project, the Walled Off Hotel, opened in Bethlehem in 2017. Constructed next to the barrier wall that separates Israel from the Palestinian territories, the hotel sardonically boasts “the worst view of any hotel in the world” and contains rooms decorated with original work by the artist and a gallery exhibiting work by Palestinian artists. That same year Banksy addressed “Brexit,” the scheduled exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), by painting on the side of a building in Dover the flag of the EU and a labourer poignantly removing one of its stars.
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Banksy at auction In late 2018 Girl with Balloon (2006), a canvas version of one of Banksy’s most popular murals, startled onlookers at an auction when the work seemingly self-destructed by partly shredding just after selling for $1.4 million. As speculation about the meaning of the stunt and about the involvement of the auction house erupted on social media, Banksy posted a video claiming credit for the prank. He later released another video suggesting that the shredder, hidden in the frame, was meant to destroy the work completely but had malfunctioned. Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication bureau, also issued a certificate acknowledging that the destroyed work had become a new piece of art with a new name, Love Is in the Bin. The work sold in 2021 for $25 million, beating Banksy’s previous auction record, which had been set by Game Changer in 2020, when it sold for $22 million.
Legal battles Although he was increasingly famous, Banksy remained anonymous; his rare interviews were conducted via e-mail or with responses delivered by an altered voice on tape. He remained committed to street art, declaring that life in a city in which graffiti was legal would be “like a party where everyone was invited.” Nonetheless, the popularity of Banksy’s work led to numerous unauthorized exhibitions and reproductions. Although artists typically rely on copyright laws to protect their works from such use, copyright requires disclosing the artist’s identity. Banksy instead began to apply to register his work as a trademark in 2014 and later set up Gross Domestic Product, a temporary shop selling goods inspired by his art. Between 2020 and 2021 the European Union’s intellectual property office threw out a number of Banksy’s registration applications, saying they were made in bad faith. Debra N. Mancoff The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
艺术界的蒙面大盗,最神秘的艺术家班克西(Banksy) - 知乎
艺术界的蒙面大盗,最神秘的艺术家班克西(Banksy) - 知乎切换模式写文章登录/注册艺术界的蒙面大盗,最神秘的艺术家班克西(Banksy)华人会APP为世界更安全 让生活更美好有这样一位艺术家,谁也不知道他真实的名字和长相,但是他的作品遍布全球各个街头巷尾,在世界各地的美术馆和博物馆得到展出,甚至几度在拍卖会创下最高记录。他被《时代周刊》评为全球最具影响力的100人之一,也是《时代周刊》唯一不露脸的封面人物。他是英国警察的眼中钉,是各大美术馆的噩梦,也是当今世界上最有才气的街头艺术家之一。2010年,《时代周刊》把班克西评为当年全世界最有影响力的100人之一。由于不想暴露身份,最后他提交了一张自己头套购物纸袋的照片他就是班克西(Banksy),一个大名鼎鼎却又极其神秘的英国街头涂鸦画家。班克西究竟是谁?没有人知道班克西到底是谁,与其说是一个名字,不如说只是一个代号。他从未在公众面前公开过自己的年龄、身份、长相,但他的作品常常悄无声息地出现在全世界许多城市的街头巷尾。他的街头作品带有强烈的讽刺意味,在旁则附有一些颠覆性、玩世不恭的黑色幽默句子,过去二十多年来,他在全世界不同城市的街道上神出鬼没,把整个世界狠狠地嘲弄了一遍,只要他的画出现的地方,就会变成当地打卡圣地。班克西的作品往往有高度批判性,他经常藉由街头涂鸦宣扬反战理念,用“恶搞”的形式反对艺术商业化和消费主义,批判社会现实,暗讽一些有影响力的社会事件。Banksy班克西接头涂鸦艺术高光时刻挑战“艺术权威的虚伪”班克西曾表示自己是不会在哪家画廊展示他的作品,但他却是各大美术馆的噩梦。这个家伙会在大英博物馆、纽约大都市美术馆或卢浮宫的名作旁边挂上自己修改的仿作,甚至掉包。有时他的画作甚至能在这些美术馆展出好几天才被发现,很多观众还在班克西的恶作剧前装模作样的“观赏”,可想得知真相后观众的心理阴影面积。班克西还毫不留情地声称:“艺术圈就是最大的笑话!”2004年,他偷偷地,把自己画的蒙娜丽莎带进巴黎卢浮宫,挂在墙上。然后,人们像揣摩名作一样,揣摩班克西的画。足足过去了8天,工作人员才发现这幅多出来的画。纽约,大都会博物馆。2005年,修改过的油画,经过装设人工义鼻与胡子,维持两小时。纽约,布鲁克林博物馆。2005年,修改过的油画,维持了八天。2003年英国泰特美术馆,他趁四下无人把自己“作”的一幅画粘在一件名画旁。伦敦,大英博物馆。这块画着原始动物和超市手推车、冒充出土文物的石头,被偷偷放进伦敦大英博物馆墙上展示了8天,现为永久馆藏。毫无疑问,班克西“火”了,他的作品被博物馆收藏,以超高价拍卖。在某次班克西的作品拍卖会上,他的作品纷纷拍出高价。拍卖会顺利落幕的隔天,班克西竟在自己网站首页放上了这幅作品,反骨的他毫不客气的表示:I can't believe you morons actually buy this shit!(真不敢相信你们这些白痴掏钱买这垃圾!)而班克西最为反叛的艺术反击是在2018年10月5日的苏富比拍卖会上,他的涂鸦创作《带气球的女孩》Girl With Balloon以高达104万英镑在伦敦苏富比拍卖会成交。但定槌后不到几秒,画框内的画作自动下降绞成条条碎纸,令全场人包含收藏家傻眼。随后,班克西在他个人社交媒体上传影片说明这场精心布局,并引用毕卡索的名言「The urge to destroy is also a creative urge 破坏的欲望即创造的欲望」进行嘲讽。传递理念:反战在班克西的涂鸦作品中,传递了一个非常明确的理念,就是“反战”。除了活跃在英国的街头,班克西还把他的涂鸦带去了柏林、纽约等地方,甚至冒着风险,把作品弄在了以色列和巴基斯坦的隔离墙上。为此,班克西曾被以色列警告。在这些地区,班克西创作过无数反对战争、追求爱与和平的作品。借奥运嘲讽战争的涂鸦,出现在伦敦的街头他让蒙娜丽莎拿起火箭炮2005年,Banksy来到约旦河西岸,在以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的那堵安全隔离墙上,他画了一幅画——两个孩子揭开了一扇窗,窗子的外面是一番并不存在的美好风景景象。《飞行气球女孩》,无辜脆弱的女童试图飞离隔离墙被瞄准心脏的和平鸽将越战的照片和迪斯尼和麦当劳经典形象结合起来班克西最有名的作品之一:《Rage, flower thrower》这幅画在耶路撒冷墙上的作品,展现了一个黑白色的蒙面示威者,手中投掷的不是砖头或燃烧弹,而是一束彩色的花。仿佛在鼓励大家“放下仇恨和暴力,我们可以用爱与和平交流”。这一作品引起了全世界范围无数人的共鸣,其影响力跨国界、跨种族、跨宗教、跨人群。而这幅画在某种程度上,也像是Banksy的一幅自画像:一个匿名蒙面者用爱与和平向强权示威。街头作品——极尽讽刺之能事“他的街头作品经常带有讽刺意味,在旁则附有一些颠覆性、玩世不恭的黑色幽默和精警句子;其涂鸦大多运用独特的模板技术拓印而成。他的作品富有浓厚政治风格,俨如一种以艺术方式表达的社会评论,并已经在世界各地不同城市的街道、墙壁与桥梁出现,甚至成为当地引人入胜的城市面貌。”班克西的作品涵盖广泛,极尽讽刺之能事,警察、公众人物是被恶搞的常客,甚至将英国女王伊丽莎白二世画成猩猩,因此成为大英帝国的"头号通缉犯"。2003年,班克西将英国女王伊丽莎白二世画成猩猩,以此宣告猴子统治地球的时代即将到来,用恶作剧的方式表达对社会不公平现象的不满。在这些充满黑色幽默的作品里,每一幅都毫无畏惧地在讽刺政府,挑衅国家机器。大量讽刺警察的作品给班克西带来了很多麻烦,再加上涂鸦活动的非法性,他的“艺术”活动常常受到警察的打击和追踪,他一度被英国警方称为“艺术恐怖分子”。他甚至做过一批假钞,将原本的英女王改成了戴安娜王妃,上面的字从Bank of England变成Banksy of England。班克西的作品富有丰富的想象力和创造力,受到很多人的喜爱。他将各种社会事件与街头涂鸦结合起来,以艺术的方式表达社会评论。他以一种犀利辛辣的方式与世界沟通,又表达自身。和购物车一起下坠的人,讽刺消费主义2016年, 用雨果小说《悲惨世界》中孤女珂赛特的形象,形容讽刺法国警察对移民使用催泪弹因为花美,就逮着她拍,不惜连根拔起,讽刺媒体为了报道不择手段、没有底线。城市的停车场太多,孩子玩耍的空间不够。班克西永远有用不尽的创意。反战争、反恐、反权威、反法西斯、反独裁、反消费主义……这些是班克西所有作品的共性,也在他流窜街头的涂鸦壁画中表现得淋漓尽致。班克西(Banksy)伦敦地铁涂鸦——呼吁疫情戴口罩当人们沉迷于这些街头艺术的魅力时,当街头艺术引发人们思考时,班克西是谁,已经不再重要了。发布于 2020-09-23 13:55班克西涂鸦文化艺术家赞同 871 条评论分享喜欢收藏申请
Banksy Street Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
sy Street Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory The Art Story Movements Artists Timelines Ideas The Art Story Artists Movements Ideas Blog About us Donate Contact Us BanksyBritish Graffiti Artist, Political Activist, and Film DirectorBorn: c. 1965 - 1974 - Bristol, England Street and Graffiti ArtBritish Art Banksy SummaryAccomplishments Important Art Kissing Coppers (2004)Rage, the Flower Thrower (2005)Napalm Girl (2004-05)Show Me the Monet (2005)Unwelcome Intervention (2005)One Nation Under CCTV (2007)Mona Lisa Bazooka (2007-08)Power Washer (2008)Hammer Boy (2013)Love is in the Bin (2018) Biography Childhood Education and Early Training Mature Period Legacy Influences and ConnectionsUseful ResourcesSimilar Art and Related Pages "A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with." 1 of 8 "If you have a statue in the city centre, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right - but as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture." 2 of 8 "A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to." 3 of 8 "Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else." 4 of 8 "It doesn't take much to be a successful artist - all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it." 5 of 8 "Banksy's conceptual humour works just as well in the gallery context, yet I don't think it has a long life there, as its jokes are so one-dimensional and soulless." 6 of 8 Jonathan Jones"It adds up to an experience that keeps pummelling you with surprises. To pick the most ambitious example, the ruined castle at the centre of the ruined lido, the one whose moat is filled with unwanted supermarket trolleys and dog poo, turns out to house a most spectacular reimagining by Banksy of the Cinderella story." 7 of 8 Waldemar Januszczak"We are all Banksy." 8 of 8 Robert Del Naja Summary of BanksyWith tongue firmly planted in cheek, English graffiti artist and international prankster Banksy has managed to become one of the world's most recognized artists while remaining relatively anonymous. Staying true to the credos of Street Art, he's built a celebrated body of work, both permanent and impermanent, that utilizes satire, subversion, dark humor, and irony to create resonant social, political, and humanist messages for the masses on a populous and public level. His style is universally familiar, founded on a signature stencil aesthetic that has elevated him from mere man with a spray can to a highly creative artist in his own right. He is responsible for catapulting guerilla work into the mainstream as a viable form of art. Accomplishments Banksy's artistry lies in his ability to use humor and sardonic wit to trick viewers into contemplating the underlying seriousness of his messages about capitalism, advertising, politics, and humanity. It is this very sense of innocent whimsy coupled with daring, glaring truths about our times that lift him to a role as potent social mediator all under the guise of art.Regardless of his fame, Banksy's chosen canvas remains the street and improvisational public places where his art can 'pop up" guerrilla-style retaining its resistance to being commercialized within any specific social sector, audience, or market.Anonymity has been Banksy's main way to operate, largely because it removes the status of artist as celebrity and instead forces a focus on the artwork. It also allows for the freedom of telling one's unapologetic truth without regard to consequence.In an ironic twist of fate, Banksy's subversive mien has only furthered his crossover to mainstream acceptance as the world takes note of his signature style and lack of any noted ego drive toward artistic recognition. The artist himself has become a bridge not unlike the ones his artwork aims to build.Because graffiti is illegal, Banksy's work continues to raise questions in the social sphere about the lines between public art and vandalism. If his work on the side of a building becomes a collectible, protected piece while another less known street artist is jailed for performing a similar action, what does this signify about the hypocrisy afforded to fame?The Life of BanksyWhether Banksy is one person, or a group of people we don't know. But it is a fact that he (she, or it) has created some of the most powerful, controversial, witty, and brilliant contemporary art.Read full biographyRead artistic legacy Important Art by Banksy Progression of Art2004Kissing CoppersIn this iconic image, two (seemingly male) police officers in full, typical British uniforms are depicted kissing, in what appears to be a loving embrace. This work was originally spray-painted on the side of the Prince Albert pub in Trafalgar Street near the downtown core of the city of Brighton. Before its creation, one of Banksy's associates approached the pub owner on his behalf to seek permission for the work. The pub owner says, "My first thought was, 'oh no'. I thought we'd get in loads of trouble for it." But to his delight, after its creation, a group of uniformed officers appeared in front of the pub to view the piece and proceeded to take pictures. In 2011, the piece was replaced with a copy protected by a Perspex case, while the original was flown to the United States to be sold at auction. The piece can be read in many ways. In one respect, Banksy is advocating for a sexual-identity accepting society by placing icons of authority in a pro-gay position. His use of policemen, rather than ordinary citizens, is intriguing, because the very subjects of his tender portrayal are often the ones to working to eradicate his vandalism. While some believe that he is poking fun at policemen, showing them in a vulnerable, intimate moment, others read the work more positively, as showing a human side to the police force, and emphasizing the strong bonds that exist on the police force between partners and teammates. The work is an undeniable testament to Banksy's use of irony to challenge us to build a bridge of understanding between expected enemies of ideology. Spray paint - Originally painted in Brighton, England. Now in private collection 2005Rage, the Flower ThrowerThis work, now covered and protected by a Perspex overlay, features a man dressed up in what we associate with traditional riot gear, with a bandana obscuring his face, and his cap on back-to-front. His stance is one of a person about to lob a Molotov cocktail; he's taking aim and is ready to throw his weapon. However, instead of a weapon, he holds a bunch of flowers (which are the only part of the mural to appear in color.) This piece is located on a wall on the side of a garage in Jerusalem on the main road to Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. By substituting a weapon with a bunch of flowers, Banksy is advocating for peace, and he opted to install this particular message in a high-conflict area. The work also carries the message idea that peace comes with active hard work. In addition, the bouquet may as also represent a commemoration of lives lost in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and thus, his use of art to relay messages of social importance. Stencil and spray paint - Bethlehem Artwork Images 2004-05Napalm GirlAgain, Banksy has taken a pre-existing image - in this case an iconic photograph from Vietnam in 1972, of a girl - Kim Phuc - fleeing from a napalm attack on her village. The original photograph was taken by associated press photographer Nick Ut and has developed into a short hand for the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Banksy has isolated the image of the horror-stricken girl (originally surrounded by a few other clothed children and seven soldiers running down a road away from the site of the napalm attack) and flanked her with Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald. These two instantly recognizable, smiling characters, when juxtaposed with the image of Napalm Girl, give the image a very twisted and sinister feel. Both Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald are two family-friendly faces of American capitalism, the same country that dropped Napalm on Vietnam. Banksy's work then becomes a critique of not just America but also of capitalism. The girl's horror-stricken face is juxtaposed against the two characters' big, bright smiles. In this simple image, Banksy shows both the fun, carefree facade of American culture, and the reality that America also has a very dark, underbelly which drops bombs on people, and both commercializes and glamorizes war. Banksy once stated that "The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages." Screenprint on paper 2005Show Me the MonetThis work by Banksy refigures the iconic Impressionist painting Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lillies (1899) by Claude Monet. Monet's original reveals a tranquil scene of his own garden, with rich vegetation reflected in the calm water. Banksy has replicated Monet's original painting almost exactly, using the same materials as Monet, however Banksy has added two discarded shopping carts and a traffic cone to the pond. By using shopping carts, an image associated with consumerism, Banksy’s message is that society is focused on material goods, buying more than is necessary in a futile attempt to make itself feel happy and fulfilled. Moreover, by representing these man-made objects as discarded in an otherwise beautiful setting, he critiques contemporary society's disregard for nature in favor of commodity fetishism and the production of excessive waste. Even in the title Banksy has subverted the meaning of the Impressionist painting, with the word "money" being a play on "Monet". Oil on canvas 2005Unwelcome InterventionThis mural depicts two young boys playing with buckets and shovels, like children creating sandcastles on a beach. The boys, one standing, the other kneeling, look back at the viewer, rendered in Banksy's typical black and white stencil aesthetic. Just above the boys, the artist has created the illusion of a broken section of the grey wall on which the mural was created. Through this false hole, a photorealistic color image of a tropical beach paradise is visible. As with much "guerrilla" Street Art, the location of the piece plays a central role in its meaning. Banksy stenciled this work onto the Israeli-Palestinian West Bank barrier wall in August 2005 along with eight other murals (including a dove with a bulletproof vest and a heart-shaped target over its chest, a child beneath a ladder stretching to the top of the wall, and the silhouette of a young girl being lifted upwards by a bunch of balloons). While the Israelis consider the wall to be a protection against terrorism, the Palestinians claim that its purpose is racial segregation. Banksy's spokeswoman Jo Brooks said that while Banksy was creating the piece, "The Israeli security forces did shoot in the air threateningly and there were quite a few guns pointed at him." However, Banksy questioned, "How illegal is it to vandalize a wall if the wall itself has been deemed unlawful by the International Court of Justice?" This piece plays on the notion that the grass may be greener, and the landscape (perhaps environmental, perhaps political) may be better on the other side of this large barrier (although we know that it isn't). The artist may also be suggesting that a better political landscape could only emerge if the barrier were destroyed. By including children in this, and several others of the murals on the wall, the artist forces us to consider the toll that the local conflict takes on the innocent. The viewer is even more strongly implicated in the work through the direct gaze of the children. When painting these murals in 2005, Banksy had a conversation with a Palestinian man who told him, "You paint the wall, you make it look beautiful," to which Banksy replied, "Thanks." The Palestinian man then said, "We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall, go home." Paint - West Bank barrier wall 2007One Nation Under CCTVThis work on Newman Street in London was painted on the wall of a building used by the Royal Mail. At the bottom right, a child in a red hooded sweatshirt, black shorts, and a grey backpack, is seen painting the phrase "ONE NATION UNDER CCTV" while being watched by a police officer and a dog at the bottom left. The mural was situated in the line of sight of a CCTV camera. In fact, Banksy managed to erect three stories of scaffolding under the cover of darkness to create the entire artwork in one night. This work aims to criticize the excessive surveillance (both from CCTV cameras in public spaces, as well as in other forms such as online) that has recently become a controversial issue both in the UK and abroad. Banksy has done other works that aim to "tease" security cameras, for instance by stenciling the words "what are you looking at?" on a blank wall faced by a CCTV camera. The Westminster City Council stated in October 2008 that the work would be painted over, regardless of the celebrity status of the artist, as it was illegal graffiti. The council stated that Banksy "has no more right to paint graffiti than a child." Robert Davis, the chairman of the council planning committee told The Times, "If we condone this then we might as well say that any kid with a spray can is producing art." The work was eventually painted over in April 2009. The condemning of Street Art as illegal vandalism, and its frequent removal, has been the focus of many other works by Banksy. But on the other hand, the fact that many of his works get removed shortly after their creation adds to the excitement and fanaticism that surrounds Banksy's work. Banksy biographer Will Ellsworth-Jones wrote in 2013 that Banksy "is an artist who has got people running around the city desperate to see his work before it gets painted over." Spray paint 2007-08Mona Lisa BazookaIn this work, Banksy plays upon one of the world's most famous paintings, The Mona Lisa (1503-4). Although in his piece, the female protagonist wears a headset while aiming a rocket launcher in his typical black and white stencil style. The piece first appeared in the Soho district of West London. While Banksy's juxtaposition of art history's most famous female with a powerful modern weapon may certainly be cheeky, there is more that can be read into the image. While da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears graceful and passive, Banksy gives her a powerful, confrontational, and active sensibility. Her facial expression remains just as calm as in the original, however, next to the powerful weapon, her welcoming smile is menacing, in a much more horrific manner. It can also be read as a statement on how blasé citizens have become to the ongoing realities of war, always taking place somewhere far removed from their own tranquil lives. Spray paint Artwork Images 2008Power WasherThis mural depicts a maintenance worker in an orange vest pressure washing art from a wall. The act seemingly destroys an ancient cave painting, a painting that is quite similar to the wonderous discovery at the time in France. With this work, Banksy is drawing a parallel between the prehistoric cave paintings, and modern-day graffiti. While it is standard practice for the latter to be cleaned off of walls, it would be unthinkable for the same fate to befall the former. In this way, the artist questions the value placed on certain works of art, and the label of "vandalism" assigned to others. Spray paint 2013Hammer BoyThis more recent Banksy work serves as an excellent example of the way that guerrilla Street Artists use the surrounding environment as an integral part of their works. In this work, Banksy has stenciled a simple black silhouette of a child with a large mallet in the process of striking something in front of him. The pre-existing object that the boy is about to hit is a red fire hydrant (or rather, a siamese connection for the fire department) which has a pipe coming up through the top leading directly to a round red object several feet higher (possibly a fire alarm). With the inclusion of the small boy with the mallet, this utilitarian plumbing fixture is instantly transformed to look like a "strength tester" (the classic carnival game where a player must strike a mallet to hit the bell at the top). With site-specific works like Hammer Boy, Banksy and other Street Artists encourage viewers to envision urban spaces, surfaces, and objects differently, and to see fun and whimsy in otherwise mundane surroundings. In this way, Street Artists have much the same mentality as skateboarders or people who practice parkour. For all of these groups, city spaces and surfaces are not restricted to their prescribed uses. Instead, participants feel the freedom to co-opt and repurpose the urban environment. A fire hydrant is not just for holding water, it can also become a child's plaything. A handrail is not only for holding and supporting oneself, it can also become a tool for enacting daring acrobatic feats. Spray Paint - 79th Street, New York City 2018Love is in the BinIn October 2018, Banksy’s iconic image of Balloon Girl, featuring a young girl letting go of a heart-shaped balloon as a beacon of innocent hope, was sold during a Sotheby’s auction for 1.04 million pounds. The moment it was pronounced “sold,” a strange alarm sounded from within the painting’s frame, its trigger source unknown. Immediately, the painting started to descend down through its bottom, which turned out to be a shredding mechanism. Although the painting was supposed to shred fully as Banksy later admitted, the device stopped working, leaving half the painting intact in the frame. Banksy posted a video of the shredding with the words “Going, going, gone” on his Instagram page, leading people to believe he had planted a subversive ally in the auction room. But he removed the video promptly, after it had successfully winked at his social media audience. The female buyer decided to keep the work, newly retitled Love is in the Bin, as it was now the subject of a grand scandal, the only artwork created at a live auction in history, and cemented her in the status of purchaser of one of the art world’s most notorious capers. Joey Syer, co-founder of an art dealing website, was quoted in the Evening Standard as saying, “The auction result will only propel this further and given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the 1.02M they paid last night, this is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value…” Banksy would go on to release a video showing how the shredder was installed into the frame upon its creation, stating it was purposefully crafted in case the work ever made it to auction. His reasoning came in the form of the quote: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”Biography of BanksyChildhood Very little is known of Banksy's youth, as he continues to keep his true identity a secret. It is reported that he played (as goalkeeper) with the Easton Cowboys football club during the 1990s and early 2000s. According to Will Simpson, another long-time member of the Easton Cowboys, Banksy went on tour with the team to Mexico in 2001 and painted a number of murals in the communities they played in, including one painting that was "raffled off to raise money for water projects in Chiapas in southwestern Mexico."According to investigation of several alleged former schoolmates and associates, along with indication by the geographic locations of Banksy's work, the artist is believed to be Robin Gunningham, a former student at the public Bristol Cathedral School. There has also been speculation that rather than being a single person, Banksy is a team of seven artists.Education and Early Training Because of his anonymity, not much can be surmised about Banksy's education or training in art. Yet, from very early on in his career we find a creative proficiency with using original imagery to develop his own unique voice - one that combined controversial and humorous visuals to create anti-war, anti-capitalism, and anti-establishment messages.In the early 1990s, Banksy began working as a freehand graffiti artist with the DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ) in his hometown of Bristol. Around 1994, he turned to stencil art, inspired by fellow street artist 3D who later became a founding member of the band Massive Attack. Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card stock, and then cut out by hand. The stencils are then affixed to a surface, such as a wall, and spray-painted. When the stencil is removed, the image remains. This first signature tool allowed Banksy to execute pieces on the fly. Like many street artists, he adopted common recurring motifs such as apes, policemen, soldiers, rioters, children, and the elderly to mark his stamp in public spaces, which quickly began to garner a following. By proliferating these iconic-stenciled images around Bristol and London, he rapidly gained the attention of the street art community and the general public.A prototypical street artist, Banksy justified his vandalism of public space, and his use of the city as canvas, as being a direct response to what he called "Brandalism," or, "any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not...The people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. They expect to be able to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you're never allowed to answer back. Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back."Banksy also frequently used rats in his art, as did his predecessor, the street artist Blek le Rat, who once stated, "I began to spray some small rats in the streets of Paris because rats are the only wild animals living in cities, and only rats will survive when the human race disappears and dies out." In Banksy's work, these nocturnal creatures (to most people associated with disease and infestation) can be understood as a sort of pseudonym or self-portrait of the artist who completes his illegal works under the cover of darkness.Banksy said, "If you feel dirty, insignificant, or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day." The word "rat" also serves as an anagram of "art," although Banksy has admitted that he painted rats for several years before someone made him aware of this fact. Rats also happen to be rare vermin that resist deep hatred by humans, and have the survival skills to get by – somewhat like Street Artists that evade authority and operate often under the cover of darkness.In the 1990s he met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides, who began photographing Banksy and his work, and then went on to become his agent until 2009. Lazarides recently stated, "When I first met this scruffy, grumpy guy back in 1997, I would have never guessed that 20 years on he would be the most famous artist of his generation, and that his work would be studied on school curriculums." He also says, "I worked with him [Banksy] for 11 glorious years, during which time we broke every rule in the art rule book along with a fair few laws. He has since gone on to become a global superstar and has retained his ability to shock and make people chuckle."After Banksy's professional relationship with Lazarides ended, he created his own organization, Pest Control, which acts as sole representative and contact liaison for his work, in charge of verifying authorship of his pieces and issuing documents of provenance to buyers.Mature Period In the early 2000s, Banksy evolved from stenciling the streets to creating prankster projects, staging public interventions within well-established art institutions, and organizing exhibitions in addition to continuing with his unsanctioned public works, all the while retaining his carefully cloaked invisibility within the public eye. Much of these efforts poked fun at art as commodity, or made specific statements on the way we are force-fed popular culture through mainstream mass distribution, and challenged our common culpability in consuming marketing, political, or media messages as truth.In the early 2000s, Banksy began holding exhibitions and performing interventions within well-established art institutions, in addition to continuing with his unsanctioned public interventions. For example, he produced 100,000 fake British £10 bills, putting in a photo of Diana, Princess of Wales, and updating text to "Banksy of England".In March 2005, he surreptitiously placed modified versions of artworks (such as a Warhol-esque painting of a discount soup can) in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn.In August/September of 2006, Banksy placed approximately 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD, Paris, in 48 record stores around the UK, modified with his own cover art (Photoshopped to show Hilton topless). Other versions featured: Paris with her Chihuahua, Paris with Tinkerbell's head replacing her own, or Paris stepping out of a luxury car amongst a group of homeless people, which included the caption "90% of success is just showing up." Music tracks were given titles such as "Why Am I Famous?" "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?" Members of the public purchased many copies of the guerilla CD before stores were able to remove them. The purchased copies went on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites.In September 2006, Banksy dressed an inflatable doll in an orange jumpsuit, black hood, and handcuffs in resemblance of a Guantanamo Bay detainment camp prisoner. He then placed the doll below the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, where it remained for 90 minutes before the ride was shut down and the figure removed. By placing a harsh symbol of political reality within a noted escapist environment, Banksy was remarking on our propensity for keeping our eyes wide shut.At his Barely Legal exhibition of 2006 in Los Angeles, which drew a celebrity crowd including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Banksy rented a live 38-year old female Indian elephant named Tai, painted in the same red and gold floral pattern as the wallpaper behind it. This “elephant in the room” was meant as a reminder of our ongoing ignorance of poverty around the world. Due to rights activists complaints, the elephant was not painted for the final day of the show, even though her handlers said that she had done "many, many movies [and is] used to makeup,” meaning that painting her was not a form of mistreatment.In London, over the weekend of May 3-5, 2008, Banksy hosted an exhibition titled The Cans Festival (a play on words of the famous French film festival Cannes). Stencil artists from around the world (including Faile from Brooklyn, Bandit from the Netherlands, Run Don't Walk from Argentina, and James Dodd from Australia) were invited to paint their original artwork, as long as it did not cover or interfere with anyone else's. It took place in a road tunnel formerly used by Eurostar underneath the London Waterloo station. The location was kept secret while the works were completed, and only then revealed to the public. Eurostar agreed to leave the works intact for at least six months following the event.In August 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina and the associated levee failure disaster, Banksy produced a series of work in New Orleans, Louisiana, mostly on buildings that had yet to be repaired. He said, "Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the cleanup operation." He also painted on the rebuilt levee wall, which according to him offered "the best painting surface in the state of Louisiana."On June 13, 2009, the Banksy vs. Bristol Museum exhibition opened at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. The show featured more than 100 artworks (78 of which were new works), including animatronics, sculptures, and installations. The show drew over 8,500 visitors on the first weekend, and over 300,000 over the course of twelve weeks.In December 2009, Banksy marked the end of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference by painting four murals on global warming. One included the phrase, "I don't believe in global warming," submerged in water.At the London Zoo, Banksy climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted "We're bored of fish" in 7-foot-high letters. He also left the message "I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring." in the elephant enclosure.In 2010, Banksy's oeuvre expanded into filmmaking after he employed aspiring street artist Thierry Guetta as an assistant and documentarian on several visits to Los Angeles. He encouraged Guetta to pursue making art, which he did, closely following Banksy's example to ultimately become the branded graffiti artist Mr. Brainwash. This journey became the focus of Banksy's 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which was nominated for an Oscar. Banksy released a statement about the nomination saying: "This is a big surprise... I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me."From August 21 through September 27, 2015, Banksy opened Dismaland in Weston-super Mare, United Kingdom. The large-scale group show, which included artists Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer, was a dark and twisted take on Disneyland. The temporary theme park featured a gloomy castle and an overturned Cinderella's carriage.A lso in 2015, Banksy created several murals in response to the Syrian refugee crisis, which were located in the area of Calais, France’s “jungle”—a site heavily packed with migrants attempting to enter the country. One of these murals ironically depicted Apple founder Steve Jobs, because as the artist described, “We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources, but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world's most profitable company, it pays over $7bn a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”2017 saw Banksy collaborating with artists Sami Musa and Dominique Petrin to design the Walled Off Hotel, a real space of lodging in Bethlehem that the artist financed to mark the 100th anniversary of British control in Palestine. Also, housing an art gallery, the hotel was tightly surrounded by a wall that each of the bedrooms directly faced, rather than the prototypical vacation views. Although Banksy’s work shows a clear predilection for views in support of social justice, pieces created in this geographical area, have come under criticism by people and organizations such as Change.org because of their one-sided, sometimes borderline anti-semitic, messages.In 2018, Banksy returned to New York City after a five-year absence for a graffiti spree that titillated the public with a spray of fresh works. Some works, such as a trademark rat running around a large clock face, were torn down quickly but others such as a portrait of imprisoned Kurdish artist Zehra Dogan on the Bowery Wall became adopted works into the fabric of the city.The end of 2018 would bring to light a stroke of artistic genius from Banksy, in an unforgettable pre-strategized prank that rocked the art world’s stuffy foundation. One of Banksy’s prior works Balloon Girl was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for 1.04 million pounds, yet just as the gavel sound confirmed the piece was sold, an alarm sounded from inside the picture frame and the piece started to pass through a shredder that had been buried inside. The antic would go down in history as presenting the first piece of artwork, created guerilla-style, in the midst of an auction.The event would also represent an evolution in Banksy’s nearly two decades long career where the artist’s strict anonymity had become concretely replaced by a worldwide recognition so vast, it would inevitably change the future course of his works. No longer abetted by the street art underground’s codas of secrecy, Banksy had become undeniably familiar, accepted, easily recognized, and sought after by the public at large. This became blindingly clear in 2018, when he painted the mural Season’s Greetings on a garage in Wales. The two-sided piece depicted a child tasting snowflakes which were revealed to be smoke and embers from a fire. The town was immediately abuzz about the possibility of the work being done by Banksy, the garage owner expressed fear and anxiety over the responsibility of protecting the piece from vandalism, and eventually a plastic screen and security guards were funded to cover the work.This new reality has manifested in an emerging visibility by Banksy, of which he remains unseen yet engages on social media applications such as Instagram with his public; it is a place fans and collectors follow now to confirm authorship of Banksy’s works as he actively posts new pieces and claims creation.His art continues to tantalize the status quo and shed light on our societal woes. Staying ever relevant within the arena of current events, Banksy recognized healthcare workers on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 by creating, dedicating, and donating a painting to the University Hospital of Southampton.The Legacy of Banksy On May 21, 2007 Banksy was selected to receive an award for Greatest Living Briton. Along with other artists like Shepard Fairey, Zevs, D*Face, and Ron English, he is credited with transforming graffiti from the typical "bubble writing" style of the 1980s to the "narrative-driven street art" of today. This contemporary street art varies significantly in aesthetic and materials, from Banksy's stencils, to Swoon's wheat paste posters, to Zevs' "liquidated logos" technique, to Space Invader's tile art. Other street artists, such as his protégé Mr. Brainwash, have adopted Banksy's particular style of instantly recognizable images such as corporate mascots and famous historical paintings.This "guerrilla art," also referred to as "post-graffiti art," which Banksy helped develop, often plays heavily upon location and context as part of the work, and seeks to regain power from stronger enemies (such as corporations and governments). These artists accomplish this by carrying out interventions in corporate and government spaces (such as billboards, storefronts, and barrier walls), and by co-opting corporate and government images (such as logos, mascots, political figures, and official currency). Banksy has also pioneered the use of alternative venues for the display of street art, as in his 2003 exhibition Turf War, which was staged in a warehouse on Kingsland Road in London's East End.Moreover, his art has sold for extremely high prices at auction, with pieces being purchased by collectors and celebrities alike for millions of dollars, making Banksy one of the first street artists to become part of the commercial art market. However, this commercial success troubles the artist, who says that "Commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist," and "We're not supposed to be embraced in that way." He continues to believe that "When graffiti isn't criminal, it loses most of its innocence." This is an ongoing controversy in the art world, with many artists being seen as "sell-outs" when they embrace the mainstream art world success. Banksy's establishment of representatives and liaisons for points of sale of his work has furthered this controversy. However, many other street artists (including equally famous Shepard Fairey) argue that they use this legitimate income to fund further illicit, unsanctioned guerrilla art.Banksy's reception on a universal scale has also legitimized graffiti as a viable form of public art, furthering debate between vandalism as criminal activity and vandalism as an artist's creative medium (in a way, becoming a symbol of freedom). Many of his works remain on buildings and other public spaces because of their contemporary value, even if at the time of their creation, they were seen as illegally concocted. In fact, many building owners have benefitted from becoming "owners" of an original Banksy.Influences and ConnectionsInfluences on ArtistInfluenced by ArtistArtists Andy Warhol Nick WalkerInkie3DBlek le RatFriends & Personal Connections Shepard Fairey KatoTesMovements & Ideas Street and Graffiti Art Pop Art ArtistsMr. BrainwashRon EnglishFriends & Personal Connections Shepard Fairey KatoTesMovements & Ideas Street and Graffiti Art Open InfluencesClose InfluencesUseful Resources on BanksyBookswebsitesarticlesvideo clipsBooksThe books and articles below constitute a bibliography of the sources used in the writing of this page. These also suggest some accessible resources for further research, especially ones that can be found and purchased via the internet.biography Banksy: The Man Behind the WallOur PickBy Will Ellsworth-Jones Banksy: Art Breaks the RulesBy Hettie Bingham Banksy in New YorkBy Ray Mock Banksy. Myths & Legends: A Collection of the Unbelievable and the IncredibleBy Marc Leverton written by artist Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall Banksy, Existencilism Banksy, Cut It Out Banksy, Wall and PieceOur Pick Banksy, Pictures of Walls artworks Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of ThreatBy Gary Shove, Patrick Potter, and Banksy Where's Banksy?: Banksy's Greatest Works in ContextBy Xavier Tapies Banksy: Urban Art in a Material Worldby Ulrich Blanché and Rebekah Jonas Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 1: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, EnglandBy Martin Bull Banksy Locations & Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from Around the UKBy Martin Bull This Is Not a Photo Opportunity: The Street Art of BanksyBy Martin Bull Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet HomeBy Steve Wright and Richard Jones View more bookswebsites Official Banksy WebsiteOur Pick Banksy's art hotel in Bethlehem articles The Story Behind BanksyBy Will Ellsworth-Jones /Smithsonian Magazine /
February 2013 The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art?Our PickBy Peter N. Salib /
The University of Chicago Law Review /
2015 'This is not a Banksy!': Street Art as Aesthetic ProtestBy Susan Hansen /
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies /
2015 Whose Place Is This Anyway?: The Israeli Separation Barrier, International Activists and GraffitiBy Robert R. Sauders /
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Banksy: Biography, Artist, Graffiti and Street Art, Identity
sy: Biography, Artist, Graffiti and Street Art, IdentitySearchWomen’s HistoryHistory & CultureMusiciansMovies & TVAthletesArtistsPower & PoliticsBusinessScholars & EducatorsScientistsActivistsNotorious FiguresBIO BuysNewsletterPrivacy NoticeTerms Of UseSkip to ContentWomen’s HistoryMusiciansMovies & TVAthletesNewsletterFamous ArtistsFamous British PeopleBanksyBanksyBanksy is the pseudonym of a street artist known for his controversial, and often politically themed, stenciled pieces.By Biography.com Editors and Tyler PiccottiUpdated: Nov 21, 2023Getty ImagesCirca 1974-presentLatest News: Lost BBC Interview Hints at Banksy’s IdentityA recently discovered recording from 2003 might have solved part of the mystery behind the identity of anonymous street artist Banksy. During that interview, former BBC arts reporter Nigel Wrench asks Banksy if he could use his real name in the interview, citing a report from The Independent referring to him as “Robert Banks.” When Wrench asks the artist to confirm if that’s his name, he answers, “It’s Robbie.”Banksy’s identity has long been the subject of speculation, with Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett among the names linked to the artist. The Daily Mail reported in 2008 that Banksy was then-34-year-old Robin Gunningham, though he has denied this.Jump to:Who Is Banksy?ArtBanksy’s Identity"The Banksy Effect"QuotesWho Is Banksy?Banksy, whose real identity remains unknown, is a street artist believed to have been born in Bristol, England, around 1974. He rose to prominence for his provocative stenciled pieces in the late 1990s. Banksy is the subject and director of the 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop that examines the relationship between commercial and street art. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the project.ArtGetty ImagesBanksy originally created the graffiti art of two children who appear to be on a seesaw on a wall in Kyiv, Ukraine. A German artist modified the work to include the banana featuring Ukraine’s flag colors.Banksy began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s, in the Bristol, England–based graffiti gang DryBreadZ Crew. Although his early work was largely freehand, Banksy used stencils on occasion. In the late 1990s, he began predominantly using stencils. His work became more widely recognized around Bristol and in London, as his signature style developed. Banksy’s artwork is characterized by striking images, often combined with slogans. His work often engages political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy, and greed. Common subjects include rats, apes, policemen, members of the royal family, and children. In addition to his two-dimensional work, Banksy is known for his installation artwork. One of the most celebrated of these pieces featured a live elephant painted with a Victorian wallpaper pattern and sparked controversy among animal rights activists.Learn About Other Famous ArtistsJean-Michel BasquiatAndy WarholFernando BoteroOther pieces have drawn attention for their edgy themes or the boldness of their execution. Banksy’s work on the West Bank barrier, between Israel and Palestine, received significant media attention in 2005. He is also known for his use of copyrighted material and subversion of classic images. An example of this is Banksy’s version of Claude Monet’s famous series of water lilies paintings adapted to include drifting trash and debris.In a 2003 interview, a BBC reported asked the artist whether graffiti artwork should be considered vandalism. “If it’s done properly, it is illegal! But I got a good reaction I think off most people from my work,” Banksy replied, according to Rolling Stone. “You know, I’ve even had policemen in the past say they kind of like things about it, but… I just think it’s my right to go out and paint it.”Banksy’s IdentityGetty ImagesArtist Banksy leaves a signature on a piece of artwork at the 2021 exhibition The Mystery of Banksy—A Genius Mind in Munich, Germany.Banksy’s identity remains unknown, despite intense speculation. The two names most often suggested are Robert Banks and Robin Gunningham. Pictures that surfaced of a man who was supposedly Banksy pointed toward Gunningham, an artist who was born in Bristol in 1973. Gunningham moved to London around 2000, a timeline that correlates with the progression of Banksy’s artwork.Making Banksy’s identity potentially harder to pin down is the suggestion by journalist Craig Williams and others that Banksy is a collective of artists working together under the same brand. However, news broke in November 2023 that the artist said his name was “Robbie” in a BBC interview conducted two decades previously.According to Smithsonian Magazine, an ongoing lawsuit threatens to reveal Banksy’s full name once and for all. A greeting card company called Full Color Black is suing the artist for defamation over a now-deleted Instagram post from 2022. After a Guess clothing store used one of Banksy’s works as part of a window display in collaboration with Brandalised—of which FCB is the trading company—the artist posted: “Alerting all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regent Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”FCB is seeking at least $1.6 million in damages and wrote in its filing that the “claimant reserves the right to seek an order that he identifies himself for the purposes of these proceedings.”"The Banksy Effect"Banksy’s worldwide fame has transformed his artwork from acts of vandalism to sought-after high art pieces. Journalist Max Foster has referred to the rising prices of graffiti as street art as “the Banksy effect.” Interest in Banksy escalated with the release of the 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. The movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Academy Award. Banksy requested the ability to attend the ceremony in Los Angeles in disguise, which the Academy ultimately rejected. In October 2013, Banksy took to the streets of New York City. There, he pledged to create a new piece of art for each day of his residency. As he explained to the Village Voice, “The plan is to live here, react to things, see the sights—and paint on them. Some of it will be pretty elaborate, and some will just be a scrawl on a toilet wall.” During that month, he also sold some of his works on the street for $60 a piece, well below the market value for his art.QuotesWe can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible, and childish. But that’s only if it’s done properly.People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.Fact Check: We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn’t look right, contact us! Biography.com EditorsStaff Editorial Team and ContributorsThe Biography.com staff is a team of people-obsessed and news-hungry editors with decades of collective experience. 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The cover of Banksy's 2005 compilation, Wall and Piece.
Banksy
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c.1974; Bristol, United Kingdom
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Street art
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graffiti
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Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of the English musical group Massive Attack. Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder. Banksy created a documentary film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", which made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards. Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with two other artists known as Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D. During this time he met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides, who began selling Banksy's work, later becoming his agent. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a work. He claims he changed to stencilling while hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when they noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London. He was the goalkeeper for the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls football team in the 1990s, and toured with the club to Mexico in 2001. Banksy's first known large wall mural was The Mild Mild West painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors' office on Stokes Croft in Bristol. It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police. Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects often include rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly. In July 2011 one of Banksy's early works, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, which had been a prominent landmark on the exterior wall of a former social club in Eastville for over ten years, was unwittingly painted over after the premises became a Muslim cultural centre. On 19 June 2002, Banksy's first Los Angeles exhibition debuted at 331⁄3 Gallery, a tiny Silver Lake venue owned by Frank Sosa. The exhibition, entitled Existencilism, was curated by 331⁄3 Gallery, Malathion LA's Chris Vargas, Funk Lazy Promotions' Grace Jehan, and B+.
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2001
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2003
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2003
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2005
Death
Banksy
2005
Keep It Spotless (Defaced Hirst)
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2007
It's Not A Race
Banksy
2008
One nation under CCTV
Banksy
2008
Red Carpet Dinner Service
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Shop Until You Drop
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Horenka, Sadova 21
Banksy
2022
Kyiv, Velyka Zhytomyrska 13
Banksy
2022
Borodyanka, Tsentralna 427
Banksy
2022
Hostomel, Proskurivska 2
Banksy
2022
Irprn, Hostomelske Shose 15
Banksy
2022
Kyiv, Khreshchyatyk 9
Banksy
2022
Borodyanka, Tsentralna 253
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2022
No Loitering
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2008
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2008
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2007
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就不告诉你我长啥样 | 神秘的街头艺术家班克斯(Banksy) - 知乎
就不告诉你我长啥样 | 神秘的街头艺术家班克斯(Banksy) - 知乎切换模式写文章登录/注册就不告诉你我长啥样 | 神秘的街头艺术家班克斯(Banksy)郭曦FunnerART·范ER艺术空间创始人班克斯(Banksy)1974年出生于英国布里斯托尔,老爸是技工。他从未受过正规艺术训练,自称艺术界恐怖 分子。作品多以 反 战为题材,极尽嘲讽之能 事;他的画板不拘一格,可以是街道角落的墙壁,可以是汽车车身、公园的长凳,还可以是动物的身体。班克斯目前是英国最抢手的地下画家,来自靠近布里斯托尔 的Yate。十几年来,他创作了大量以现 实 生活和反 战内容为题材的作品,被誉为当今世界上最有才气的街头艺术家之一。从14岁开始涂鸦至今,Banksy从未在公众面前公开过自己的身份、长相。Banksy这只是他的化名没人知道他的长相,年龄,身份但他却在英美家喻户晓被评为全球最具影响力的100人之一《时代周刊》的封面人物(也是唯一一个没有露脸的)“世界在他眼里不过是个玩笑”Banksy 最有名的作品之一:《扔花的人》过去二十多年来,他在全世界许多著名城市的街道上像游击队员一样神出鬼没,留下各种讽刺涂鸦,把整个世界狠狠地嘲弄了一遍,时代杂志把他评为全世界最有影响力的人之一。藐视权威饱含讽刺与幽默外界对Banksy的评价褒贬不一:街头诗人街头恐怖分子神经病恶童老油条... Banksy同样不是很在乎Banksy在14岁那年被中学除名,以后成为英国涂鸦风潮的中坚人物。如果说到伦敦的涂鸦,几乎没有人不提及他的作品。他的黑白色割版涂鸦看起来机智诙谐,极富颠覆性。Banksy的作品里,有拟人的老鼠、扛武器的蒙娜丽莎、正在拥吻的警察……这些作品让观众获得一种意外的幽默,有人称他为幽默的街头诗人。由于涂鸦活动的非法性,早年Banksy不仅被英国媒体称做“恐怖主义艺术”,他的“艺术”活动还常常受到警察打击和追踪,生活和“安全”都没有保障。这些年来,Banksy创作了大量以现实生活和反战内容为题材的作品,风格以黑色幽默著称。每位艺术家的成功从无到有都是一个曲折的过程,Banksy也不例外。在他早年的艺术生涯期间(1992-2001),也只是一个徒手绘图的涂鸦艺人。Banksy声称令他改用模板的契机,是因为一次为了逃避警察追捕而躲在垃圾车底时,注意到车体上由模板刷上的数字编号。当他理解模板可以大幅缩减制作时间后,便决定完全改为使用模板创作艺术。自从全面用上模板技术,很快地他便更广泛的获得周遭布里斯托(Bristol, England)和伦敦(London, England)艺术圈的关注。2002-2003年是Banksy个人作品的展览期。2004年8月,Banksy制造了一大批的恶搞10英镑钞票,钞票上的英女皇头像被人民爱戴的戴安娜王妃头像取代,而“Bank of England”的字样则由“Banksy of England”代替。当美国著名流行歌手克Christina Maria Aguilera把维多利亚女王的原画,连同另外两幅Banksy画作以25,000镑购入之后,Banksy的艺术作品拍卖纪录于2006年10月19日创出新高。然后在一个拍卖会上,Banksy一帧绿中挂红的《蒙罗丽莎》变调之作又以57,600镑被有心人投得。12月,伦敦CNN国际新闻网络的专栏作家开始称这股旋风为“Banksy效应”,来形容在他个人的成功背后,以往总是寂寂无闻的一众街头艺术家也终于渐渐引起关注。Banksy可谓是艺术界的传奇,他的作品也总是以极高的价格被拍卖,并广泛流传着。与真实环境物体组合的作品Banksy的作品分散在伦敦,巴黎,巴塞罗那,硅谷,底特律等各城市的墙头小巷。警察,儿童,老鼠,是他作品中出现最频繁的形象。显然是涂鸦的创作过程的切身体会:月黑风高,拎着喷漆罐、带着口罩开刷。这个时候埋头苦干是万万不能的:必须左顾右盼,一旦碰到巡警,想尽一切办法跑……在Banksy特别喜欢“光顾”的那些城市,市长们是不高兴的:“不觉得这样破坏别人财产或公共财产的行为能称为艺术。”作品被覆盖、抹除,这些Banksy并不在意,但他也表达过自己的立场:你在图书馆里书的扉页上写了点什么,希望被其他人看到;后来的读者继续在下面添油加醋,直到管理员受够了,把扉页贴白。但过了一段时间,又有书虫开始在上面写写画画。街头艺术就像是这个。那么一直潜水的Banksy究竟如何出名的呢?2003 年英国泰特美术馆,Banksy趁四下无人把自己“作”的一幅画粘在一件名作旁(以挑战“艺术权威的虚伪”)。没有一个博物馆的工作人员发现任何问题,直到B本人爆料。同样被恶搞若干日才反应过来的,还有纽约大都会艺术博物馆和巴黎卢浮宫。“出镜”后的Banksy,作品被博物馆收藏,被高价拍卖,追随者们搜寻疑似Banksy的作品并费力挖掉整块墙。Banksy在自己的网站上吐槽:“真不敢相信,你们这群神经真的会买这些垃圾。”Banksy的公共作品拍价30w英镑看脸时代,不露脸的Banksy照样赢。除了涂鸦,Banksy还干过的事情有,联合50多个艺术家,把英国一个废弃的主题乐园改造成暗黑版主题乐园Dismaland:毁童年的暗黑迪士尼乐园……要不要都去体验一下……在以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的争议领土伯利恒 ( Bethlehem )上,建立一座名为“ The Walled Off Hotel ” 旅店。旅店内有 8 间主题客房和 1 间总统套房,班克斯以自己的作品“点缀”了整个房间。旅店内的卧室BANKSY-名言标语 “墙是个很大的武器,它是你可以拿来打击或是触动某人的,是最下流的武器之一。” “对人类来说,隔离墙就是一大耻辱。在隔离墙以色列那一边,是修葺一新的草坪和运动型多用途汽车,而在巴勒斯坦这一边,到处可看到肮脏的地面,以及四处寻找工作的穷人。”——表明其反对以色列建立隔离墙的政治立场。 “我不相信你们这些傻瓜,真的会买这幅画”——名画《Space Girl and Bird》的标题,该画在伯明翰以57.5万美元卖出去。 “此墙为涂鸦专区,请将你个人不入流的东西携回。”——为了鼓励大众创作,他在个白墙上喷上官方语气还带有官方图腾的标语。 “就像很多人一样,我也期待有一天这社会最没力量,最低下的阶层团结起来,地下的势力有一天会翻到地面上来,用各种技艺,将这个都市拆了,老鼠之所以被称为鼠辈,正因为他们会不择手段只为活下来 ”——他喜欢在各处喷小老鼠 “很多人都不用他们的创造力,因为没有人告诉他们要用。” “为你(名字本身)打知名度的时代已经结束了,如果你搞个艺术品只为了出名,这总是无法出名的。名声,是伴随着你表达了些什么而来的,你总不会因为要大便,所以跑到餐厅去点个餐来吃吧。 ”——在他的网站上的都市涂鸦教战守则最后说的话。了解更多有关于艺术的精彩内容请关注“范ER艺术空间”微信公众号或“范ER艺术自主体验空间”微博。编辑于 2018-10-08 15:32艺术街头艺术艺术家赞同 562 条评论分享喜欢收藏申请
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Banksy
The cover of Banksy's 2005 compilation, Wall and Piece.
班克斯
Banksy
生於:
大約1974; Bristol, United Kingdom
國籍:
British
藝術運動:
街頭藝術
藝術類型:
塗鴉
藝術領域:
畫作,
版畫,
雕塑,
素描,
裝置藝術
受影響於:
達米恩·赫斯特,
愛德華‧霍普
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班克斯(英语:Banksy,1970年代-),又譯為班克西,是一位匿名的英國塗鴉藝術家、社會運動活躍份子、電影導演及畫家。他的街頭作品經常帶有諷刺意味,在旁則附有一些顛覆性、玩世不恭的黑色幽默和精警句子;其塗鴉大多運用獨特的模板技術(英语:Stencil)拓印而成。他的作品富有濃厚政治風格,儼如一種以藝術方式表達的社會評論,並已經在世界各地不同城市的街道、牆壁與橋樑出現,甚至成為當地引人入勝的城市面貌。 班克斯的創作生涯源於早年參與布里斯托地下圈子(英语:Bristol underground scene),當中包括了不少藝術家與音樂人的跨界別合作。根據作家和圖像設計師卓斯坦·文高(Tristan Manco)所說,Banksy是出生於1974年並在英國西南部布里斯托市成長的;另外文高又透露他是一名影印機技術員之子,最初是要學習當個肉店屠夫的,後來卻備受1980年代後期在該城興起的塗鴉熱潮影響而深陷其中。有文化評論員指出,班克斯的繪圖風格跟查維亞·普魯(英语:Blek le Rat)(外號「Blek le Rat」)相近,後者從1981年便已經在巴黎開始從事模板印刷的藝術工作,組過龐克樂隊,時至今日仍然活躍於倫敦的塗鴉藝術界。 眾所周知,對於絕大多數政府將塗鴉藝術標籤為「恣意毀壞他人財物罪」之既定政策,Banksy一向以藐視的立場聞名。他習慣在最能接觸社會大眾的表面,例如牆壁等地方展示自己的作品,有時更加不惜親自動手,為其塗鴉圖案建造些物理支撐點。儘管班克斯從來不曾把自己的塗鴉作品或相關照片用作銷售牟利的用途,不過,很多藝術拍賣行都曾經試圖出售他進行街頭藝術的現場,並讓贏出競價的人自行決定對該處塗鴉的處置方式。Banksy首次執導的電影《畫廊外的天賦》(英语:Exit Through the Gift Shop),被宣傳為「世上第一部街頭藝術災難片」,於2010年圣丹斯电影节上首度試映。2010年3月5日電影在英國各地進行正式上映。2011年1月《畫廊外的天賦》獲得第83屆奧斯卡金像獎的最佳紀錄長片提名。 從1992至1994年,Banksy於家鄉布里斯托踏出自己的藝術路途,變成了一名徒手繪圖的塗鴉藝人,他又與友人加藤(Kato)和泰(Tes)組成一個稱做「DryBreadZ Crew」的創作團體。在這段時間裡,Banksy受到不少其他本地藝術家的啟發,而他本身的創作亦已然是布里斯托地下圈子的重要部份。剛開始的時候,模板只是Banksy徒手繪畫作品的其中一個點綴元素而已;至2000年以後,當他理解到可以大幅縮減製作時間後,便決定完全改為使用模板創作藝術。而Banksy聲稱令他改用模板的契機,是因為一次為了逃避警察追捕而躲在垃圾車底時,注意到車體上由模板刷上的數字編號。自從全面用上模板技術,很快地他便更廣泛的獲得周遭布里斯托和倫敦藝術圈的關注。 Banksy模版塗鴉的特徵是惹人注目並且不失幽默,間中亦會在旁邊寫上簡短的俏皮口號。這些塗鴉背後所要傳遞的訊息,通常是反戰、反資本主義或者反建制;而他經常起用的圖案包括有老鼠、猿人、警員、士兵、小孩以及老人。 2002年7月19日Banksy的首個個人展覽會開幕,舉行地點位於洛杉磯「33又3分1畫廊」的一座銀色調的小型場館,展覽名為《完全模板主義》(Existencilism)。 至2003年,Banksy又在某倉庫舉行名為《地盤戰爭》(Turf War)的一次展覽,內容包括在動物身體上進行彩繪。儘管皇家愛護動物協會(英语:RSPCA)宣佈了所有安全條件均安排妥當,但仍然有一位動物權利主義者把她自己鎖在欄杆上以示抗議。 稍後,Banksy一轉思路,挑戰油畫領域並將題材定為「顛覆經典」;例如替印象派大師莫奈的《睡蓮池》系列加入都市陰暗元素,令水面倒映中所見的竟變成了亂七八糟的垃圾,甚至是超級市場裡的購物手推車。另一例子是改編愛德華·霍普的名作《夜遊者》,在畫中咖啡館代之而見的是一個只穿上米字旗內褲的英國足球流氓。這批油畫作品後來在2005年於倫敦西布恩街一次為期12日的展覽中也曾公開展出。 2003年Banksy與舒帕德·法利(英语:Shepard Fairey)、Dmote等人合作在悉尼的亞歷山德亞區舉辦半永久性的倉庫展覽會,吸引了約1,500人前往觀賞。 2004年8月,Banksy製造了一大批的惡搞10英鎊鈔票,鈔票上的英女皇頭像被人民愛戴的戴安娜王妃頭像取代,而「Bank of England」的字樣則由「Banksy of England」代替。有人在那年度的諾丁山嘉年華會中把大疊的這些紙鈔扔向人群,其中更有人拾起來之後嘗試到當地店舖使用。這些鈔票又被充當一個貧民區聖誕畫展的邀請函派發,並且馬上在拍賣網站eBay掀起每張約售200英鎊的炒賣熱潮。而在雷丁節慶(英语:Reading and Leeds Festivals)上也有人仿傚諾丁山嘉年華會,將一疊鈔票扔過柵欄和群眾。另一方面,限量50張兼附上簽名的十連開鈔票海報在畫展上以100英鎊的價格出售,作為戴安娜王妃的死忌紀念活動。2007年10月倫敦老牌指賣行寶龍(英语:Bonhams)創下紀錄,以24,000英鎊的高價售出其中一張海報。 2005年8月,Banksy到訪巴勒斯坦地區,在以色列西岸隔離牆(英语:Israeli West Bank barrier)上創造了九幅大型畫作。 Banksy此時在洛杉磯再度舉行名做《勉強合法》(Barely Legal)的展覽,宣傳文案是「為期三天的摧毀倉庫大匯演 」,展期是2006年9月16日的週末。這展覽以一隻活生生的「房間中的大象(英语:Elephant in the room)」(英语:Elephant in the room},在英國熟語中可解作眾所周知但卻被刻意忽略不理的問題)作為號召,而大象的整個身體都塗上了粉紅和金色的印花圖案,根據場刊所指乃是旨在提醒人們注意第三世界的貧困問題。儘管有關的動物部門已經為該大象批出合法的許可證,但經過愛護動物組織的激烈投訴之後,Banksy從善如流地讓大象在展覽的最後一日裡以原始的姿態示人。而大象的主人也反擊苛待動物的指摘,表示他的大象拍攝過「很多、很多的電影,已經習慣了化妝」。展覽的另一個矚目作品是維多利亞女王的畫像,雖然混入安迪·華荷及達文西的風格,但此作的獨特與大膽之處在於其譏諷性以及把女王表現為女同性戀者。 當美國著名流行歌手克莉絲汀·阿奎萊拉把“同性戀”維多利亞女王的原畫,連同另外兩幅Banksy畫作以25,000鎊購入之後,Banksy的藝術作品拍賣紀錄於2006年10月19日創出新高,那是一套六張超級名模姬·摩絲的絲紡畫像,風格類近於安迪·華荷操刀的瑪麗蓮·夢露肖像;它在倫敦的蘇富比拍賣會上以50,400鎊的價碼銷出,成交價較拍賣的底價足足高出了五倍。然後在同一個拍賣會上,Banksy一幀綠中掛紅的《蒙羅麗莎》變調之作又以57,600鎊被有心人投得。在12月,倫敦CNN國際新聞網絡的專欄作家马克斯·福斯特(英语:Max Foster)開始稱這股旋風為「Banksy效應」,來形容在他個人的成功背後,以往總是寂寂無聞的一眾街頭藝術家也終於漸漸引起社會上廣泛的注目。 2007年2月21日,倫敦蘇富比拍賣行再次刷新Banksy作品的最高售出單價:價值102,000鎊的《Bombing Middle England》,同場另外兩幅塗鴉《Balloon Girl》和《Bomb Hugger》亦分別以37,200鎊以及31,200鎊賣出,同樣遠超拍賣底價。翌日的拍賣會進一步有三張Banksy作品:先後是96,000鎊沽出的《Ballerina With Action Man Parts》、72,000鎊的《Glory》和33,600鎊的《Untitled (2004)》,競投情況踴躍。隨著拍賣會的第二天結束,Banksy更新自己的個人網頁背景為一幅拍賣會現場的畫像,畫中人們正為了畫作而爭相出價,旁邊則有字句「我不能相信你們這些白痴真的會買這種垃圾」(I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit)。2007年2月,一間被Banksy在外牆繪上壁畫的布里斯托房子的主人,決定透過紅螺旋槳藝術畫廊售出他的住宅,後來因為準買家要移除壁畫而令交易告吹。 在2007年4月,人們赫然發現西敏市維多利亞街的倫敦交通局總部外垣畫有Banksy的招牌詼諧圖案:一部昆頓·塔倫天奴電影《危險人物》裡面的場景,只是演員尊·特拉華特和森姆·L·積遜兩人握住的都從手槍變成了香蕉。雖然這個圖案大受公眾歡迎,不過倫敦交通局卻怒不可遏,宣稱這個塗鴉造成“一種疏於看管、社會腐敗的氛圍,並會反過來鼓勵犯罪活動”還有他們的職員是“專業的清潔工人而不是專業的藝術評論家”。 此後Banksy便多次在上述地點流連修飾,起初他把演員們手上的香蕉改回做真槍,可是又把他們身上的衣著換成一套大香蕉裝束。稍後時間,Banksy又在其《危險人物》作品上增添新的部分,這是為了悼念19歲的倫敦塗鴉藝術家Ozone而畫的(Ozone與藝術家同伴Wants於2007年1月12日在東倫敦巴金市(英语:Barking)的地下鐵車廂中遇襲身亡)。新添上的圖案是一名穿上防彈背心並手持骷髏頭骨的天使(下方左圖),Banksy同時在個人網頁寫上悼文: 2008年3月,位於倫敦荷蘭公園大街(英语:Holland Park Avenue)環形交通島的泰晤士水務公司(英语:Thames Water)抽水塔被人噴上醒目的塗鴉圖案,市民普遍相信是Banksy的傑作;圖案本身是一個鮮橙色的小孩子,正畫著「拿下這個社會」(Take this Society)的字眼。哈默史密斯-富勒姆區當局的發言人格雷·史密斯議員把這次塗鴉藝術定斷為「恣意毀壞他人財產罪」並立即下令移除,於是圖案在三日之內就馬上被哈默史密斯-富勒姆區市議會的工人們洗刷得一乾二淨了。 5月3日至5日的週末裡,Banksy主辦了名為《罐頭嘉年華》的展覽,舉行地點在蘭貝斯區的利克街,正是滑鐵盧車站的歐洲之星列車從前的行車隧道下方位置。這次的展覽顯得份外的熱鬧,因為很多不同的塗鴉藝者都獲邀請到場,他們更紛紛即場留下自己的塗鴉之作,前提是只要不遮蓋到別人的部份就沒有問題了。Blek le Rat、Ben Eine、Cartrain、Jef Aérosol、Mr. Brainwash等等知名的塗鴉人物均有現身。 2008年8月下旬,為了紀念和追悼三年前颶風卡特里娜所造成的毀滅性破壞,Banksy特地於美國路易斯安那州的新奧爾良製作一整個系列的作品,當中大部份都是畫在災難至今仍未復原的廢墟之中。 2008年10月5日,Banksy籌備已久的首個正式展覽在紐約開幕,題為《鄉村寵物店與炭火燒烤》(Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill),場中的先進動畫和發聲機動設備模擬出寵物屋櫥窗的日常情形,甚至包括一隻母雞看守著自己的麥樂雞子女在啄燒烤醬汁包,同時兔子則對著鏡子怱忙地上妝。 2013年10月,班克斯到紐約進行街頭藝術計畫「Better Out Than In」,為期一個月。在這段期間,也另外在Youtube的官方帳戶,上傳了名為《反抗軍火箭炮攻擊》(Rebel Rocket Attack)的短片,內容是大人用火箭炮將迪士尼角色小飛象給擊落,從天空掉到地面上的小飛象不堪一擊,虛弱的趴著,小朋友不滿大人行為,便向大人踹了一腳,諷刺意味濃厚;而這個短片是有經過後製的,事實上這短片是拍攝於敘利亞的戰爭衝突,原本被擊落的是一個飛行物。
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如何评价 Banksy 以及他的作品? - 知乎首页知乎知学堂发现等你来答切换模式登录/注册涂鸦艺术欣赏Banksy如何看待/评价TA如何评价 Banksy 以及他的作品?关注者447被浏览140,285关注问题写回答邀请回答好问题 4添加评论分享21 个回答默认排序昭公子旅行话题下的优秀答主 关注我一般极少去翻问题日志,今天突然看了一下原来的问题有艺术鉴赏这个标签,而后来这个标签被人删掉了。编辑的人估计觉得Banksy的作品或者不算艺术,或者不能被鉴赏吧。可是我觉得每个人都是可以生产艺术的,你洗澡哼的歌,为女友写的诗,素描的街景,哪怕家里设计的家居摆设都是艺术,人人都是可以生产艺术的,可只有生产对很多人有影响的艺术创作者才可以被称为艺术家。Banksy就是在全球范围内具有巨大影响力的艺术家。这几幅图都是在巴勒斯坦加沙地带高墙上的作品,题材都是反战。作品看着简单,可是有多少人愿意到加沙地带或约旦河西岸画涂鸦啊?在各种无病呻吟的现代艺术中,这种振聋发聩的涂鸦就成了一股清流。下面是要乘着气球要飞出西岸的小女孩。这个就是最出名的那幅画,无数人的衣服,电脑,帆布袋都印着这个图案。2010年的时候,时代杂志把他评为最有影响力的100个人,其他人选还有奥巴马,Lady Gaga之类的。杂志找他要照片,他给了这张图片。应该是有史以来第一个这样的吧?作为一个世界上最出门的艺术家,我就在想他自己不靠艺术赚钱,那他平时做什么,他是会计师?是医生?是屠夫还是酒保? - 那些小幽默大主张的背后到底是一个什么样的人呢?2013年10月,他去纽约驻场一个月,一天一副作品,做了许多很有意思的东西。其中有一个试验就是把自己的真迹拿在中央公园60块美金一张,结果后来只有三五个人来买。第二天通过自己的网站公布这个事情其实是自己做的,买到的人发现是真迹都疯了,一转手就是25万美元。所谓艺术的美学价值与商业价值。但是当时的纽约市长彭博就要气死了,说了一堆街头艺术是破坏别人财物,要将banksy绳之以法的话,可是说真的,我觉得banksy是给了街头艺术第二次生命的人。纽约不缺别的,就缺Banksy。美国底特律是一个衰败的城市,他在那城市做了这个涂鸦,后来这个墙被人拆了,拿去拍卖换了上百万美金。聪明的读者也许会问,这不算偷不算抢吗,首先墙不是他的,其次画的版权都无法立案,因为需要受害者出来报警说他是banksy,那么就可以帮助立案,可是banksy从来都不出现。这使得有非常多人收益于Banksy的涂鸦,落地之处都是黄金。关于艺术品估值的问题,我在别的答案已经写得很清楚了。只是街头艺术真的不太适用。艺术品原作的价值在哪里? - 昭公子的回答如何评价农妇200元一副作品pk周春芽500万+RMB大作? - 昭公子的回答不过他给我留下最深印象的作品都是与战争有关的。比如说下面这个小女孩,你认出她是哪一幅历史照片里面的小女孩了吗?就是这一幅越战的照片。迪斯尼和麦当劳都是美国的标志。有些时候也有批判现代社会的。现实生活中的他应该是一个非常有趣,有点刻薄的人吧。可能会有一点小幽默像马东那样,很多智慧闪光。他的作品经常涉及关塔纳摩,维基泄密等最新最有影响力的社会事件。作品像社论一样有明显立场,加上图像的强大传播力和信息含量,让他拥有了重大影响力。比如他对消费主义的攻击。他刚搬来伦敦的时候,发现伦敦的每一面墙上都是广告牌,都在鼓励煽动他买东西。他一个Bristol来的小镇男孩觉得受不了,他就想在墙上做一些回应,就开始用Graffiti的形式对这个社会说话。他还会给他的女朋友买包吗?你说他真人是不是也是那种禁欲系的脸呢?他的涂鸦有一点类似报纸以前有的那种讽刺漫画类型,但Banksy个人风格极其强烈,你在任何地方看到他的作品都很容易一眼认出来。香港去年因为有一些404的民众诉求,就有人想要模仿他的风格,结果画虎不成反类犬。Banksy的风格还是很有辨识度的。涂鸦艺术是极其有生命的艺术,因为他会死,会消失,会和人对话,会出现冲突,会让人思考。就是一幅画会被人涂白,被人偷走,被人在上面乱写字,引起邻居的不满。这些都是让涂鸦艺术变得脆弱而且有趣的地方。如果你搜索全球前十大或者最出名的街头艺术家,你会看到别的很厉害的艺术家,可其他人的特长估计就是在一栋楼上画满一个很好看的熊头之类的,或者天台上画一个8米的裸女。这是很好的,很漂亮的,so what? Banksy的传播性之所以大就是他触及了很多重要的社会议题,就好像在广场上立了一个碑,你就是要去讨论他。比如下面这个是讽刺印第安人领地的历史悲剧。Banksy和一般涂鸦艺术家不同,他没有什么Turf War的概念,不需要那些彩色的签名。Stencil其实就刚好是一个方式而已,他也可以完全用油画的方式来表达这些,而选取了街头的方式估计就是天生性子野,加上街上影响力大。评论区里有人说Banksy是信息时代的艺术暴动。是一个很有意思的说法,传统的艺术家画了画之后就要在画廊,博览会上不断曝光。而现代的艺术家,就靠一个instagram就可以红遍大江南北。只要是金子,随便发光啊。在一个访问中,他这么说:“There’s a whole new audience out there, and it’s never been easier to sell [one’s art],” Banksy has maintained. “You don’t have to go to college, drag ’round a portfolio, mail off transparencies to snooty galleries or sleep with someone powerful, all you need now is a few ideas and a broadband connection. This is the first time the essentially bourgeois world of art has belonged to the people. We need to make it count.”翻译成中文就是 - 我Banksy是人民的艺术家。如果你看到这里还没有点赞,关注,评论,那我就是那个在嚎啕的男孩。编辑于 2016-05-05 13:10赞同 88832 条评论分享收藏喜欢收起知乎用户不是艺术生,喜欢读些艺术理论,谈谈个人感受。光环与成就:Banksy可能是街头艺术家中最被公众熟知的人物。他的光辉成有1)包括把自己的作品偷运进博物馆参展(几周后才被发现)2)目前外界仍然不知道他的真实身份3)他最贵的作品被拍出1,870,000 USD 的高价 Viewpoints: Top 25 Most Expensive Banksy Works Ever « Arrested Motion 以及最近的在new york的行为艺术(他把自己的上万美元真迹以60美元在街头贩卖却无人搭理)Tourists buy $31K Banksy art for just $60 each我的评价:首先,我本人挺喜欢Banksy的作品。除了审美上的因素,最吸引我的是其作品中独有的一种机智与狡黠。大工业文明极大地丰富了人类的视觉文化,同时技术进步又使得艺术品可以廉价大量复制。曾经,绘画所带来的震撼是足以让人痛哭流涕(绘画与眼泪 (豆瓣))。但见惯了好莱坞的视觉盛宴,谁还会被一副静止的图像震撼呢?这就是“街头艺术”契机。本雅明曾经认为艺术品在被大量复制时,艺术品的价值就几乎全部凝聚在原作的“真迹”这一层面。但街头艺术甚至连原作是否能被保留都不在乎。涂鸦一般很快就会被覆盖。在这种情形下,传播能力成了街头艺术作品的唯一追求。所以,街头艺术游戏规则是:快,准,狠快,意味作品必须简单必须在被警察抓住前完成。准,意味着观众都是匆匆路人,没人会仔细体会你深邃的忧郁,所以作品比较高效传达想法和情感。 狠,意味着作品不但要被看懂,而且还要夸张出于意料,才能让人印象深刻。这三点,Banksy都很好的做到了。Banksy 的作品的特点就是简单风趣而又充满政治意味。我买过他的作品集《Wall and Piece》。里面除了收录了他的作品,还有一些他自己写的文字。人们通常对街头艺术家的刻板印象是:一群高中肄业居无定所滥用药物不可一世的小青年。但从Banksy对文字的使用,我们可以推测即便他没有受过正是的高等教育,至少也博览群书。千万不要因为他没掉书袋就小瞧他,大家可以看看他写的文字:Banksy Quotes (Author of Wall and Piece)Banksy也是人:上文着重强调了他作品中的机智风趣,言外之意也暗示了他涂鸦纯粹作为视觉艺术的审美价值并不高。几乎所有受过艺术训练的人都能做出相同水平的作品。街头涂鸦界绘画水平比Banksy高的也大有人在。但还是那句话,Banksy身上那种博览群书沉淀出的精炼和审时度势的狡黠却并不多见。如果街头艺术家应该由其产生的公众影响力来评价,那么Banksy无疑是杰出的艺术家。诚然,街头艺术家身上都有叛逆,崇尚自由,无政府主义,个人英雄主义等特质。正是这些对现代资本主义社会略带敌意的气质让普罗大众特别容易把这些街头艺术家神化。Banksy是很cool,但没有大部分人想得那么cool。比如他始终在公众面前隐藏自己的身份,似乎有点神秘地下领袖的感觉。但他是谁,伦敦警察早清楚了。因为他出版书,拍卖作品都要交税。只不过政府没把他当回事罢了。街头艺术家不是精神领袖。街头艺术家中也有Shepard Fairey这种撕破脸皮把自己同行告上法庭。简单概括:Banksy 就是涂鸦界的韩寒。恨他的人和迷恋他的人一样多。但正如对他的攻击无法改变他,对他的赞誉也没有让他忘乎所以。不管外界如何评价,Banksy一直做着自己喜欢做的事,他不仅做得很成功,而且还很快乐。发布于 2013-10-31 12:22赞同 1066 条评论分享收藏喜欢