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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'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 in Bristol. It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police. [40] Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans.
Slave Labour is a mural that was painted by a British graffiti artist, Banksy, on the side wall of a Poundland store in Wood Green, London in May 2012. The artwork is 48 inches (122 cm) high by 60 inches (152 cm) wide, [ 1 ] and depicts an urchin child at a sewing machine assembling a bunting of Union Jack patches.
Banksy painted the artwork over three days in broad daylight in 1999. [3] [4] It was painted in response to various unlicensed raves and parties held in abandoned warehouses around Bristol in the 1990s that drew attention from the police. A specific trigger for the mural was such an event at Winterstoke Road, New Years Eve 97/98 where riot ...
The Flower Thrower, Flower Bomber, Rage, or Love is in the Air is a 2003 stencil mural in Beit Sahour in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a masked man throwing a bunch of flowers. [1] It is considered one of Banksy's most iconic works; the image has been widely replicated. [1]
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 ...
In November 2011, three months after the airing of the Channel 4 documentary Graffiti Wars, the Camden Robbo mural was painted over with a black and white depiction of the original with the additions of a crown and a can of spray paint with a hazard symbol of a flame above it. It was painted by Banksy as "a tribute to him and as an effort to ...
Banksy's Flying Balloon Girl near the Qalandia checkpoint. West Bank Wall graffiti art is street art on the walled sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, [1] [2] by a wide range of international and Palestinian artists. The wall is 8 to 10 metres (26 to 33 ft) tall, and is easily accessible to artists as it frequently divides urban areas.