It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police.Ħ What is the Exit through the gift shop? (part 1) He played football with the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls in the 1990s and toured with the club to Mexico in Banksy's first known large wall mural was "The Mild Mild West" painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors' office on Stokes Croft Avenue, Bristol. He claims he changed to stencilling 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 noticed for his art around Bristol and London. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a work. From the start Banksy used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too. During this time he met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides, who began selling Banksy's work, later becoming his agent. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D.
In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.īanksy began as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes. The film was released in the UK on 5 March In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film. Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder. Banksy says that he was inspired by "3D", a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack, an English musical group.īanksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.īanksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. 2 Who is Banksy? Banksy is a pseudonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
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