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The following is a list of works by Banksy. Banksy , active since the 1990s, is an England-based graffiti artist , political activist and film director whose real identity is unknown. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique.
Banksy is a self-professed “art vandal,” with the artist’s public graffiti art being painted on walls and spaces that do not belong to him. [ 15 ] Banksy’s other vandalistic art projects have symbolized issues similarly to how Mediterranean Sea View 2017 addressed the migration crisis. [ 16 ]
Cave art hoax with accompanying exhibit label, hung on a wall in the British Museum, removed after two or three days and subsequently accessioned; in 2005. [1]Two works jetwashed away and a third work, of a boy holding a stereo and a teddy bear, the subject of legal action opposing its ablation by Hackney Council in order "to keep streets clean", in Dalston, London; in 2009.
Here, Banksy helped groups of teens in art classes, just as he was about to paint his famous Mild, Mild West mural. "If you look at the photos, you can see the way he was working with the young ...
The largest touring exhibition of authentic Banksy artworks in the world is coming to Chicago's West Loop this summer. 'The Art of Banksy' exhibit brings 80 rarely-seen works to Chicago's West ...
Banksy, whose real identity is unknown, is famous for outdoor graffiti, including on Israel's barrier at the West Bank and Disneyland where he painted a life-size figure of a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
In October 2019, a 2009 painting by Banksy entitled "Devolved Parliament", showing Members of Parliament depicted as chimpanzees in the House of Commons, sold at Sotheby's in London for just under £9.9 million. On Instagram, the artist said it was a "record price for a Banksy painting" and "shame I didn't still own it". [178]
Show Me the Monet is a part of the series and exhibition Crude Oils, a rare segment of Banksy's body of work, as the canvas is entirely hand painted by him. The work was created during a period when Banksy had to remain indoors, in which he began oil painting, then adding his traditional environmental disruption learnt through his pre-existing practice of graffiti. [3]