Tribute pages for Public Artists including Banksy, and propaganda campaigns.
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"The world's foremost street artist is a social justice warrior and a viral media master. She could be anyone."
CITATION:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-04/why-banksy-is-probably-a-woman
Banksy’s artwork may be characterized by striking images, often combined with slogans. Their work often engages political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy, and greed. Common subjects include women, historical female and male figures, rats, apes, policemen, members of the royal family, and children.
In addition to their two-dimensional work, Banksy is known for their installation public artwork, and it is not known whether the work is promoted by viral sensations and falsely attributed work is authentic or not. Pest Control may be a money making scheme created to actually benefit the elite wanting to profit from an unknown artist. The work is theatrical and sensational, often like a newspaper art editorial commenting on hot topics throughout time. Banksy's proposed works are always exploring sensitive modern day issues, including child labor, colonialism, anti-war imagery, or promoting Black Lives Matter and mask wearing during the Covid -19 Pandemic.
Banksy could be a collective of artists, a social movement group, or led by a woman, many theories exist and have been proposed Worldwide.
One of the most celebrated of the pieces featured a live elephant painted with a Victorian wallpaper pattern and sparked controversy among animal rights activists. The contradictory messaging may mean the true artist remains in hiding, watching the copycat effect created by their real public art.
Other 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.
Banksy is also known for their fair use of copyrighted material, creating derivative and subversive 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.
<<But what Banksy Does New York makes plain is that the artist known as Banksy is someone with a background in the art world. That someone is working with a committee of people to execute works that range in scale from simple stencil graffiti to elaborate theatrical conceits. The documentary shows that Banksy has a different understanding of the street than the artists, street-writers, and art dealers who steal Banksy's shine by "spot-jocking" or straight-up pilfering her work—swagger-jackers who are invariably men in Banksy Does New York.
All of which serves as evidence against the flimsy theory that Banksy is a man.>>
CITATION: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-04/why-banksy-is-probably-a-woman
Banksy may be a collective of artists or a woman!
<<"Banksy hunters" who tracked the elusive artist over the course of her month-long residency last October never caught a glimpse of her—at least, so far as anyone can be sure. Reporters such as Beth Stebner (New York Daily News) and Keegan Hamilton (then with The Village Voice) didn't find her. That her identity is still secret is an achievement, given her notoriety and marketability.>>
Testimonials
The Gendering of Graffiti and Street Art Studies
Sofia Pinto
Universidade Católica, Portugal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v6i2.234
