Banksy, graffiti artist

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Banksy is a anonymous English graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details. According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." 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. Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti. Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.

Banksy's "The Flower Chucker" is included in the feature film The Age of Stupid to represent all modern art stored in an archive after the end of the world as we know it.

Banksy (Bristol, 1974 o 1975) è un artista inglese.

ITA È uno dei maggiori esponenti della street art. Si sa di lui che è cresciuto a Bristol ma la sua vera identità è tenuta nascosta. Le sue opere sono spesso a sfondo satirico e riguardano argomenti come la politica, la cultura e l'etica. La tecnica che preferisce per i suoi lavori di guerrilla art è da sempre lo stencil, che proprio con Banksy è arrivato a riscuotere un successo sempre maggiore presso street artists di tutto il mondo. I suoi stencil hanno cominciato ad apparire proprio a Bristol, poi a Londra, in particolare nelle zone a nordest, e a seguire nelle maggiori capitali europee, notevolmente non solo sui muri delle strade, ma anche nei posti più impensati come le gabbie dello zoo di Barcellona. Nonostante la recente fama mondiale, e le notevoli quotazioni delle sue opere, Banksy continua a rimanere fuori dallo starsystem e a preferire la sua arte in mezzo alla gente comune.

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[UNLIBERTINO]

stupendo.

What's the -amazing- song ?

[diggia81]

@UNLIBERTINO Laws of the Gods, di RJD2 dall'album Third hand. Ascoltalo :)

[ChalleFoV2]

Classics

[lieberso]

Hervorragend!

[ollietuckitintome]

has he ever been prosecuted for this ?? hes a seriously talented man and the fac the choses not to cash in on his fame surprises me.. i love his work and admire him for standing alone and creating masterpieces accross the country and now world.. he will be in history books in years to come.. keep it up banksy (",)

[stretmusic2500]

Some of those r jef aerosol

[boobspassion]

ottimi gusti artistici musicali e visuali complimenti!!!

[emericanartist]

thank you for this

[allegropaolo]

0.24 - not banksy

[pippetto888]

wonderful