Banksy

[hippie37]

Banksy is a well-known pseudo-anonymous British graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details. According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier engineer, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." His artworks are often-satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world. Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

[hippie37]

[hippie37]

[time2change]

Hippie
Wow...Pictures can speak and loudly!!!

[Bandit]

Hi Hippie,
Are you sure this is meant to be in the Laughing out Loud section?? - maybe it is because I am so feckin tired but cannot sleep.
These pictures are so such a depiction of the craziness of our society today and it makes me feel so sad - I for one will never forget the picture of that girl, naked, running....
Sometimes, I wonder what the hell I have brought my two kids into .
God, maybe I better go to bed!

Bandit

[Theme2be]

Made the perfect sense to me.

Involved, color by color, idea by projection.
Such bravery. These pictures gave me a companion today.

I will spend much time with each color as it is applied.

Am honored to be able to look, seek , search, and be in discovery.

[pipsqueak]

Am a bit confused. these pics not Banksy? At least not Constable ones, are they. ? My brain hurts Hips
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