Bansky is a world renown street artist, or an infamous twat. Your call.
Cover me
Spread ‘Em
He doesn’t seem to agree with American War Politics Either
Hoooray
What are you looking at?
For Gotys, because he once painted something similar
Is it art?
Worthless art? Worthless Individual? Rats and Banksy exist without Permission
How he probably feels about us, and this post…
From Wikipedia:
Banksy is a well-known pseudo-anonymous[1] English graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol[1] and born in 1974,[2] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.[3] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier engineer, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”[4] His artworks are often-satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.[5] Banksy’s work was borne out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of screenprints in commercial galleries.[6]
There is a great coffee table book about him and his work at Barnes and Noble (link).
