Friday, May 18, 2007

Art Review - Banksy

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Banksy is a semi-anonymous London based artist that does graffiti/street art of a political nature. Both the form and location of the art is part of the Banksy experience, which makes it extremely unique and temporal in nature. Below are a few of my favorites.
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The one above is on the wall in the West Bank.

You can print your own poster for free from his site: http://www.banksy.co.uk/shop/index.html

2 comments:

Priest said...

as we've discussed before, i'm a huge, huge fan of banksy. his little gir letting go of a heart balloon is near religious for me. if you haven't done so, when you're on his site read his manifesto. it makes everything he does make sense.

Lawyer said...

Here's a great article (that reminded me of the genius and prompted the post):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_collins