LIFE OF BANKSY POWERPOINT WHO IS BANKSY v

LIFE OF BANKSY POWERPOINT

WHO IS BANKSY? v Banksy is a pseudonymous English graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. v His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

WHERE DID HIS WORK COME FROM? v Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy says that he was inspired by "3 D", a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack, an English musical group.

WHERE DOES BANKSY DISPLAY HIS ART? v Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but 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 first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.

WHAT WAS BANKSY’S EARLY CAREER? v Banksy began as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990– 1994 as one of Bristol's Dry. Bread. Z Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3 D. During this time he met Bristol photographer Steve Lazarides, who began selling Banksy's work, later becoming his agent. From the start Banksy used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a work. He claims he changed to stencilling while he was hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London. He played football with the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls in the 1990 s and toured with the club to Mexico in 2001. Banksy's first known large wall mural was "The Mild West" painted in 1997 to cover advertising of a former solicitors' office on Stokes Croft Avenue, Bristol. It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police.

WHAT IS THE EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP? (PART 1) v The world premiere of the film Exit Through the Gift Shop occurred at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on 24 January. He created 10 street artworks around Park City and Salt Lake City to tie in with the screening. In February, The Whitehouse public house in Liverpool, England, was sold for £ 114, 000 at auction. The side of the building has an image of a giant rat by Banksy. v In March 2010, the work "Forgive us our Trespassing" was displayed at the London Bridge in conjunction with Art Below an arts company that put on art shows on the London Underground. The work was censored by the Transport for London (TFL), forbidding display of the work with its halo, because of the prevalence of graffiti in the underground. It was displayed without the halo over the boy's head, but after a few days the halo was repainted by a graffitist, so the Tf. L disposed of the poster. This decline went through the press and several articles were published remarking on the progress of the poster.

WHAT IS THE “EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP? ” (PART 2) v In April, to coincide with the premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop in San Francisco, five of his works appeared in various parts of the city. Banksy reportedly paid a San Francisco Chinatown building owner $50 for the use of their wall for one of his stencils. In early May 2010, seven new Banksy works of art appeared in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, though most have been subsequently painted over or removed. v In May, to coincide with the premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop in Royal Oak, Banksy visited the Detroit area and left his mark in several places in Detroit and Warren. Shortly after, his work depicting a little boy holding a can of red paint next to the words "I remember when all this was trees" was excavated by the 555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios. They claim that they do not intend to sell the work but plan to preserve it and display it at their Detroit gallery. There was also an attempted removal of one of the Warren works known as "Diamond Girl. "

WHAT IS THE “EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP? ” (PART 3) v In late January 2011, Exit Through the Gift Shop was nominated for a 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Banksy released a statement about the nomination, where he said, "This is a big surprise. . . I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me. " Leading up to the Oscars, Banksy blanketed Los Angeles with street art. Many people speculated if Banksy would show up at the Oscars in disguise and make a surprise appearance if he won the Oscar. Exit Through the Gift Shop did not win the award, which went to Inside Job. In early March 2011, Banksy responded to the Oscars with an artwork in Weston, UK, of a little girl holding the Oscar and pouting. Many people think that it is in reference to 15 -month-old Lara, who dropped and damaged her father's (The King's Speech co-producer Simon Egan) Oscar statue. Exit Through the Gift Shop was broadcast on British public television station Channel 4 on 13 August 2011.

WHAT IS EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP? (PART 4) v Banksy was also credited with the opening couch gag for the 2010 The Simpsons episode "Money. Bart, " depicting people working in deplorable conditions and using endangered or mythical animals to make both the episodes cel-by-cel and the merchandise connected with the program. His name appears several times throughout the episode's opening sequence, spray-painted on assorted walls and signs. Fox sanitised parts of the opening "for taste" and to make it less grim. In January 2011, Banksy published the original storyboard on its website. According to Banksy, the storyboard "led to delays, disputes over broadcast standards and a threatened walk out by the animation department. " Executive director Al Jean jokingly said, "This is what you get when you outsource. "[

BANKSY’S TECHNIQUE v Reporters Asked about his technique, Banksy said: v I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key. v Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers for some images due to the photocopy nature of much of his work. v He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece, that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour. v There is dispute in the street art world over the legitimacy of stencils, with many artists criticising their use as "cheating. "

BANKSY’S POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEMES (PART 1) v Banksy once characterised graffiti as a form of underclass "revenge", or guerilla warfare that allows an individual to snatch away power, territory and glory from a bigger and better equipped enemy. Banksy sees a social class component to this struggle, remarking "If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead. " Banksy's work has also shown a desire to mock centralised power, hoping that his work will show the public that although power does exist and works against you, that power is not terribly efficient and it can and should be deceived.

BANKSY’S POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEMES (PART 2) v Banksy's works have dealt with various political and social themes, including anti-war, anti-consumerism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, anti-authoritarianism, anarchism, nihilism, and existentialism. Additionally, the components of the human condition that his works commonly critique are greed, poverty, hypocrisy, boredom, despair, absurdity, and alienation. Although Banksy's works usually rely on visual imagery and iconography to put forth his message, he has made several politically related comments in his various books. In summarising his list of "people who should be shot, " he listed "Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, (and) people who write lists telling you who should be shot. " While facetiously describing his political nature, Banksy declared that "Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world, I can't even finish my second apple pie. "

BANKSY’S ART (PART 1)

BANKSY’S ART (PART 2)

BANKSY’S ART (PART 3)

BANKSY’S ART (PART 4)

BANKSY’S ART (FINAL)

REFLECTION v I Think That Banksy’s Arts were Realistic And cool looking. Everywhere He went he took his art skills and made every city he came across into a big canvas for him to Draw. v I also Like the way he is still hidden from public he shows his art to the world but keeps his identity a secret from everyone. v I also Like that his work is being kept on some buildings where the owners of the property keep his work to show it to other people and tourists.