Street art: Banksy

Today I want to tell you about an important artist in the universe of street art (and not only) which has revolutionized the graffiti and which participates in a new form of freer art and which belongs to all.

Banksy is an artist who has become famous thanks to his Street Art works in urban areas.

Anonymous, no one knows their face, or its name or its origins. With the help of surveillance cameras, it is all the same to come from the surroundings of Bristol in the United Kingdom. But hey, which it is not really important, the important thing is to know and understand his particular work.

Banksy, therefore, is a street artist, who uses stencil and installation technique to get strong messages. He likes to magnify the environment facing him and divert him in his own way based on symbols and on everyday elements to create a real impact. Subtly mixing political, humor and poetry, Banksy’s stencils generally disseminate anti -militarist, anti -capitalist or anti -system messages. It is therefore a deeply committed artist who imposes his vision of the world through the planet, creating art on every street corner of country in country.

But as you can often believe, Banksy does not only do stencils. He is also expressed through the diversion of strong cultural symbols or images, as for example in 2006 when he places a life -size inflatable doll bearing the uniform of Guantanamo prison in a Disneyland setting in California, or else When the same year he “hacked” the release of the Paris Hilton disc by modifying the cover and re -recording 500 cd purchased, before putting them for sale once ” revamped ”and with their original bar code, in different English stores.

You have understood this Banksy is on all fronts, on the lookout for what is going on in the street, what is going on in the world, ready to denounce injustices and disseminate messages of peace . Banksy’s paintings are ultimately quite hard to define (some pieces have been erased by cities), just like the artist who appears as an elusive man, invisible to everyone’s eyes, ready to do anything to make his voice heard and that others.

I do not think I teach you a lot about this artist, since he has been traveling the world for many years already and that his works are now famous for the most part. Even if it is rather recognized in alternative circles, the media are more and more interested in his work, so you must have already seen one of his works J If this is not the case, I would have at least made you discover something;) And urban art attracts you, come and take a look in our urban table category! 🙂