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The series was created by Banksy to cheer up the British public during a period of bleak news headlines when "light has often been harder to spot than shade" as reported by The Guardian. [1] Banksy hoped that the "uplifting works cheer people with a moment of unexpected amusement, as well as to gently underline the human capacity for creative ...
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's Girl with Balloon print sells for £80,000 Each time Banksy arrived at the youth club, he was greeted by dozens of eager kids. The purpose-built youth centre from the 1970s had become a ...
In 2022, seven murals of solidarity were created by Banksy around wartorn Ukraine, including a gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble, a judo competition, a woman with a gas mask, and an old man ...
On 9 October, Banksy unveiled one of the more elaborate and politically strong pieces of the series. It featured armed soldiers and horses spray-painted on a car and trailer in an empty lot in the Lower East Side. Instead of commentary about the work, the accompanying audio was that of a classified video from the July 12, 2007, Baghdad ...
A Banksy piece depicting a gorilla lifting a curtain to help a humming bird, seal, and other flying animals escape while three pairs of eyes stare out from behind the curtain in darkness appeared ...
However, Banksy installed a major street art installation on Ludlow Street in the fall of 2013 as part of his Better Out Than In residency: a strange vision of horses with camera-lens goggles rearing up by a car covered with cowering humans. The work is Banksy’s largest New York work to date. [19]
Questions about the graffiti artist’s true identity have kept art lovers entertained for decades