After watching the street art video that I decided to use in my other post i decided that i wanted to learn more about street art and what goes into it. I am personally fascinated by street art and the artists weather the art is literally painted onto the wall or someone is making it on the sidewalk to sell. Many people consider street art a crime, but I disagree i think that the art is someones way of expressing them selves. i mean you wouldn't go around arresting people who expressed themselves through clothes and style but once the art is stuck onto the side of a alley way or the sidewalk its suddenly some big deal. Though street art is seen around the world it is most popular in Europe and America. These are places where conventions are held, and where one of the most notorious artists are found. Banksy.
Banksy is probably the first artist who pops into my head when i think of street art and he is also my favorite.So i decided to learn a little more about him, i know a lot about his art but i never thought of him as a person or when he started.Banksy is an anonymous artist, film maker and activist. the picture sent to time magazine that they used of him when he was nominated as one of Time's most influential people was him with a paper bag over his head. none of his fans wanted to know what he actually looked like and who he is. Banksy started doing street art in the 90's in Bristol when he was around eighteen years old, he said that the first time he put up his art that he was very nervous. By 1999, he was headed to London. Banksy was also beginning to retreat into anonymity. Evading the authorities was one explanation, but he also discovered that anonymity created its own invaluable buzz. His fist "exposition" was in 2001 and took placeon Rivington Street. Since then Banksy's fame has grown and his work can be seen all over the world.
you can find his art:
on his website: http://www.banksy.co.uk/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BanksyBook
and on Tumblr: http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com
I can get a friend who is a street artist to come in for a workshop.
ReplyDeleteI love Banksy,and I think it is cool how nobody really fights to find Banksy's identity because it is cooler and mythical that way. He's the Batman of street art, I guess.
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