FabSwingers.com forum: Banksy

By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

A genius or a criminal defacing the public realm?

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By *lynJMan
16 weeks ago

Morden

Vandalism, unless approval was received from the owner of the site.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"Vandalism, unless approval was received from the owner of the site."

Seems a London art critic has said his latest offering beyond belief and has taken her breath away

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
16 weeks ago

Glasgow / London

Banksy’s a PR genius but a bog-average artist. Sixth-form art class thinking in an old master’s price bracket.

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By *elix SightedMan
16 weeks ago

Cloud 8

Anyone else would be locked up or employed by the local council to do a mural on the side of the new community centre.

But because he’s become a cult icon he’s untouchable. I bet any police that nick him would end up policing riots in defence of his civil liberties.

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By *hil most chillMan
16 weeks ago

South East & Europe

His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded"

Will tell that the magistrate next week!

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By *alandNitaCouple
16 weeks ago

Scunthorpe

"A genius or a criminal defacing the public realm?"

Maybe "and" rather than "or"?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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16 weeks ago

East Sussex

His last offerings have been average

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By *olfandtazCouple
16 weeks ago

Bristol

"His last offerings have been average "

They have also been taken down. One nicked and another by the local council

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By *cflirtyMan
16 weeks ago

hants/ w sussex border

And a fairly average artist to boot

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By *ts the taking part thatMan
16 weeks ago

southampton

Vandal posting stencils for the arty fatty to get excited about pretending there is a message.

Wanksy I reckon.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
16 weeks ago

Glasgow / London

No, Wanksy’s the guy who paints crudely-drawn cocks around potholes so that local councils are forced to cover them up.

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By *ittlebirdWoman
16 weeks ago

The Big Smoke

The fish were super cool. Otherwise best works were in the early 90s. Like most bands 🤷‍♂️

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
16 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

"His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded"

It’s not a question of “graffiti = crime”, a lot of graffiti is quit good art, the crime bit comes in when you do it on someone else’s property without their consent. If you want to paint expressive murals on things, get permission, or is that not cool and edgy.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
16 weeks ago

Central

I don't know how wealthy he is but it seems he's very generous, which I can appreciate, letting others make £millions from his work.

I can assume that creating public art around London, would impose pressures to get it done very quickly - perhaps why his latest series has been simpler than others.

He's been a genius to have done what he's done. And kudos for not becoming a celebrity, like too many fame hungry people have.

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By *ersona101Man
16 weeks ago

Letchworth

I have been wrongly accused of being Banksy. True story!

Some years back I put a piece of my artwork on an online shop called Hitchcock's Birds. And at the time I had put a description of it saying it was in the style of Banksy. Anyway, once it had been online for a while and started showing up on Google searches people stole it left right and centre. Not before too long my name disappeared from it ad it was attributed it to Banksy.

It's now been on art prints, t shirts and all sorts. I have seen a photo of it tattooed onto someone's upper arm!

Lots of people have made money off my work, which is not so good, but that's the chance you take putting stuff online.

Anyway, if you want to see it, just Google 'Hitchcock's Birds Banksy' and it will soon show up.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
16 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

genius

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By *illy IdolMan
16 weeks ago

Midlands

"I have been wrongly accused of being Banksy. True story!

It's now been on art prints, t shirts and all sorts. I have seen a photo of it tattooed onto someone's upper arm!

Lots of people have made money off my work, which is not so good, but that's the chance you take putting stuff online.

Anyway, if you want to see it, just Google 'Hitchcock's Birds Banksy' and it will soon show up."

That's very cool

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By *aizyWoman
16 weeks ago

west midlands

"I have been wrongly accused of being Banksy. True story!

It's now been on art prints, t shirts and all sorts. I have seen a photo of it tattooed onto someone's upper arm!

Lots of people have made money off my work, which is not so good, but that's the chance you take putting stuff online.

Anyway, if you want to see it, just Google 'Hitchcock's Birds Banksy' and it will soon show up.

That's very cool"

It is!

The Birds is one of my favourite films. Must be gutting though others making money from your work.

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By (user no longer on site)
16 weeks ago

"A genius or a criminal defacing the public realm?"

Just a bit ‘meh’ for me. Been told of a potential pointer and link tonight concerning a band. Might be true, might not be. K

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By *0ng0 furyMan
16 weeks ago

Birkenhead

genius

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By *exy Pretty FeetCouple
16 weeks ago

Live in Scotland Play in England

"His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded"

This

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By (user no longer on site)
16 weeks ago

"His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded

This

What if he started doing it on cars? K

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By *loydyMan
16 weeks ago

British

"Anyone else would be locked up or employed by the local council to do a mural on the side of the new community centre.

But because he’s become a cult icon he’s untouchable. I bet any police that nick him would end up policing riots in defence of his civil liberties."
How would they know who he is

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By *oodmessMan
16 weeks ago

yumsville

A guy commented on him TV, saying "it's not art when you're using stencils, it's just self promotion".

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By *oodmessMan
16 weeks ago

yumsville

^ I'd agree with that.

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By *ellinever70Woman
16 weeks ago

Ayrshire

"A guy commented on him TV, saying "it's not art when you're using stencils, it's just self promotion". "

Was this guy a less successful wannabe artist?

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By *atgirlondonWoman
16 weeks ago

london

Genius ! Bette than rubbish graffiti from vandalism, Average young guy who had been quietly donating millions to several social causes and making some random people have their walls building valuable with his work.

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
16 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

Graffiti has never been the same since 'Give Peas a Chance' died a death.

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By *a LunaWoman
16 weeks ago

South Wales

I’m in two minds. It’s because he has a team of artists that do his work for him and their stencils.

Albeit good stencils. And I do like some of his work. Particularly the recent goat one and the gal with the balloon.

But what’s the difference between my mum knocking up an artwork stencil, me going out and spraying it it on somewhere and then her calling herself Mumsy.

I’ve seen some amazing spray painters on Insta that outline by hand (albeit from a photo) and then spray paint and it turns out amazing. That seems more like art to me.

But I’m not an expert.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
16 weeks ago

Reading

Neither. His latest collection is cute but not art.

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By *heoneandonlyEJCouple
16 weeks ago

Rotherham

I grew up in London, opposite my house was the now well quoted graffiti- “I am an angry passionate soul screaming out in this torturous mediocrity….” I remember being quite young and thinking that whoever had put it there must have been very angry and passionate to have done that. A lot of graffiti nowadays is garbage but Banksy takes my breath away every time, so emotive, so angry. We have no choice but to see advertisements everywhere, encouraging us to be the same as everyone else, I love that Banksy’s graffiti is so contentious and thought provoking. E

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By (user no longer on site)
16 weeks ago

"Graffiti has never been the same since 'Give Peas a Chance' died a death."

Lest we forget ‘vote pies’

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"Graffiti has never been the same since 'Give Peas a Chance' died a death.

Lest we forget ‘vote pies’ "

I never forgot it as I knew nowt about it!

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By *usie pTV/TS
16 weeks ago

taunton

Does Banksy charge the owners of the wall a commission after they sell the wall of their building with the art work on it.

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By *usie pTV/TS
16 weeks ago

taunton

Lol the news has just shown someone defacing a rhino he has supposedly painted on a wall. Got to say I think it made a big improvement to that tatty old wall and most likely make most folks break out a smile.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
16 weeks ago

walsall

Looks like that they are all commissions. Maybe not originally, but hiring a cherry picker and closing a lane on a road to paint a mural is not the usual stealthy graffiti artist style.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
16 weeks ago

walsall

"Anyone else would be locked up or employed by the local council to do a mural on the side of the new community centre.

But because he’s become a cult icon he’s untouchable. I bet any police that nick him would end up policing riots in defence of his civil liberties.How would they know who he is"

Because his name is widely available.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

According to the arts press the artist Banksy makes money via licensing his vast collection of reproductions and prints. His urban artist work, some my say vandalism, is a brilliant way of obtaining free nationwide advertising. His commissioned work is licensed through he pest control trademark and can fetch up to £1m per work.

Banksy is a very ordinary artist who for the most part uses stencils and transtext but as a business person he is brilliant but his choice of audience, the art world, make his money making activities all the easier by being gullible!

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By *uckyNineMan
16 weeks ago

prescot

Vandalism is the action of deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.

Is it technically vandalism when everything he so called vandalises increases massively in value

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By *hil most chillMan
16 weeks ago

South East & Europe

"A guy commented on him TV, saying "it's not art when you're using stencils, it's just self promotion". "

I love it when a random person tells artists what is and isn't art, just because they use tools the random person sneers at. Its like saying digital art isn't art either

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By *olex99Man
16 weeks ago

Hull

That save from Pele in 1970 was was class though

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By *oodiesCoupleCouple
16 weeks ago

Leicestershire

Most of the time he gets the owner of the art canvas permission to do his work… in my (wife) opinion he is an artist

As a couple we both love him!

Anyone that can make you think with their art is an ARTIST

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By *mateur100Man
16 weeks ago

nr faversham

"Most of the time he gets the owner of the art canvas permission to do his work… in my (wife) opinion he is an artist

As a couple we both love him!

Anyone that can make you think with their art is an ARTIST "

Most of the time?

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By *amantha_NiteTV/TS
16 weeks ago

The Lake District

Think he is doing too much recently and not such a surprise when his work appears

And puzzling why so many people are watching and filming his latest work just when someone appears and defaces it.All caught on camera for a publicity stunt or am i just a bit cynical

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By *oubleswing2019Man
16 weeks ago

Colchester

I like it when his work challenges and confronts. I want to be provoked and made to think.

Sure, Constable's "The Hay Wain" might be nice, pastoral work. Pretty. Evocative of a calmer age. Yawn. I am not interested in that. It doesn't provoke or challenge me. I want to feel something from art. I don't care what it is, so long as it's acute and meaningful. The sharper the social commentary, the better IMHO.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
16 weeks ago

"I like it when his work challenges and confronts. I want to be provoked and made to think.

You lost me at like it.........it’s a bloke making money via notoriety aided and abetted by the news outlets looking for end of bulletin happy stories.

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By *oodiesCoupleCouple
16 weeks ago

Leicestershire

"Most of the time he gets the owner of the art canvas permission to do his work… in my (wife) opinion he is an artist

As a couple we both love him!

Anyone that can make you think with their art is an ARTIST

Most of the time?"

It’s not public knowledge but most of his work is carried out on council property who don’t reject because they get funding from his work… it’s a win/win situation.

We stumbled across an exhibition in Amsterdam which was very informative!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
16 weeks ago

Den of Iniquity

"His art improves any building it adorns so I'm all for it. I think street art brightens up any city, and just viewing it in black and white terms of "graffiti = crime" is pretty narrow minded"

Agreed 💯

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By (user no longer on site)
16 weeks ago

"Lol the news has just shown someone defacing a rhino he has supposedly painted on a wall. Got to say I think it made a big improvement to that tatty old wall and most likely make most folks break out a smile."

All the folk up in arms about this don’t know the first thing about ‘writing’. Robbie would be chuckling about this…as this is what street art is about claiming ground making your statements, being painted over then making your next throw up.

I just ended up doing about 20 pieces across the uk, spray painted by a team of professionals for a rather large company that sell beverages…funny how scrawling tags on bus stops and trains has become quite a good job really!

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By *lynJMan
16 weeks ago

Morden

"That save from Pele in 1970 was was class though

I'm a fan of that Banksy.

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