By
Bella Jasmin Kahia González, 4th year ESO.
When
we think about street art, the first name that comes to our mind is
the name Banksy.
There
are a lot of great talents in the streets at present, but
undoubtedly, this guy has marked urban art forever and he's and he
will be a role model for a whole generation of young artists in the
world of graffiti.
'His
Hidden identity'
Banksy
is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film
director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and
subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed by 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 uderground scene, which involved
collaborations between artists and musicians.
Observers
have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to
work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy says that he was ispired
by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of
Massive Attack, an English musical group.
Banksy
started as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990-1994 as one of the
Bristol's Dry Bread Z Crew (D.B.Z.), with two other friend artists
known as Kato and Tes. 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 on, becoming his agent. By 2000, he had turned to
the art of stenciling after realisinh how much less time it took to
complete a work. He claims he changed to stenciling while he was
hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when he noticed the
stencilled serial number, and, by employing this technique, he soon
became more widely known for his art around Bristol and London.
Banksy's first known mural was 'The Mild Mild West', painted in 1997
to cover advertising of a former solicitors office on Stokes Croft in
Bristol. It depicst a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three
riot police.
'The Banksy Effect'
On
19th October 2006, a set of Kate moss paintings sold in Sotheby's
(London) for 25,000 pounds, setting an auction record for Banksy's
work. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the
style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times
their estimated value. His stencil of a green Mona Lisa, with real
painting dripping from her eyes, sold for 57,000 pounds at the same
auction.
In December 2006, the journalist Max Foster coined the phrase: 'The Banksy Effect' to illustrate how the interest in other street artists was growing on the back of of Banksy's success.
Following
Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, pseudonym of the American Thierry Ghetta, has
released several works on some walls in London. The one above, just
to show but an example, is displayed in the Holborn district, close
to the British Museum and it was painted in the full daylight. Mr.
Brainwash entered the street art scene after he got a role in
Banksy's first film 'Exit Through The Gift Shop'. He ususally depicts
pop stars and celebrities in an ironical way.
DISMALAND
Dismaland
was an amusement park created by the British artist, located in
Weston-Super-Mare resort in Sommerset, England. Conceived as an
artistic project, Banksy describes it as a 'Wrong theme park for
children'.
The
construction of the park has involved more than 58 people and two
artists, all personally invited by the author. They can be found in
his unpublished works and they are artists such as Damien, Jenny
Holzer and Jimmy Cauty.
The
name chosen for the park plays with the word meaning 'dismal'
(depressing); and is intended as an ironical critique of Disneyland.
In its logo, the park displays a footer of its website where you can
read: 'the following strictly prohibited in the park: spray, paint,
marker, pens, knives and legal representatives of the Walt Disney
Corpporation'
The
park is a temporary facility that was inaugurated on August 22nd 2015
and closed on September 25th of the same year.
'Coming soon...Dismaland Calais'
This
was the message Banksy announced the closure of the art installations
in 2015, including a replica of the castle of Disney and the rugged
float of Cinderella, which have attracted about more than 150,000
visitors a month.
'All
wood and materials used to lift Dismaland will be sent to camp Calais
Die Hard', could be read in the Bristol's artist message. 'There will
be no tickets available online'.
Those
materials were used to build temporary homes for more than 5,000
refugees across the English Channel.
So
this event makes you think that not only he shows us a critical
ideology about society but he also helps all those people who were
ignored when they needed help, depite of his money and of the profits
he got form visits to the park and other projects made in Dismaland.
http://images.spanish.latinospost.com/data/thumbs/full/51005/600/0/0/0/banksy-cierra-dismaland-para-convertirlo-en-un-refugio-para-migrantes.jpg
Last week, the camp for refugees in Calais, France, was dismantled by the French police.
FONTS
USED IN THIS ARTICLE:
The
ones corresponding to the photographs are displayed below them.
Most
information was got from:
https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/video_fotos/2012/07/120703_fotos_galeria_arte_urbano_londres_tsb.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/artist-banksy-dismaland-theme-park-parody-england/17/
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/artist-banksy-dismaland-theme-park-parody-england/17/
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