Just A Car Guy: Banksy

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Banksy stop sign with three military drones on - was unveiled on Friday. But within an hour it was stolen as witnesses took photos.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67810679

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Banksy has featured shopping carts a lot more than I realized

In another artwork, Banksy has used the shopping trolley as a symbol for destructive and wasteful capitalism: Show Me the Monet features two discarded shopping trolleys thrown into Claude Monet’s famous waterlily pond at Giverny.

Though Banksy has faithfully captured the impressionist style of the original masterpiece, the jarring addition of two upturned shopping trolleys reflects how damaging consumer culture can be to the beautiful natural world.

This mock cave Painting by Banksy went unnoticed in the British Museum for 3 days.

In 2005, the British Museum in London discovered a mock-cave painting of a man pushing a trolley among their exhibits, complete with a fake title plaque and ID number. The piece was created using black marker pen on stone, and went unnoticed for 3 days, only being discovered after the prank was announced by Banksy via Twitter.

Thirteen years later, Banksy’s cave painting was entered into the British Museum’s exhibition on the global history of dissent and protest

Shop Till You Drop

One of Banksy's most famous social comments was his artwork, Shop Till You Drop, painted in November 2011 on the side of an office building on Bruton Lane in London's West End. It is also known as the “Falling Shopper” and depicts a woman falling from the top of a building, clutching a shopping trolley containing a few items. His aim was to point out the perils of consumerism.

Using scaffolding and a tarpaulin to make sure he wasn't caught in the act; he painted the graffiti in daylight. It was painted more than two storeys up and the tarpaulin made it appear that renovation work was taking place on the office block.

Scaffolding was set up at some point on Saturday 19th November by two men who looked like construction workers. Once the scaffolding was erected, tarpaulins were draped over it. At around 3pm on Sunday 20th November, the workers went back and began taking the scaffolding down.

By 5pm that day, all of the scaffolding had been removed and passers-by realised Banksy had stopped by and created his latest graffiti, which was quickly dubbed, Shop Till You Drop.

Art critics believe the woman is depicted as contributing to the big corporations, but the shopping cart is pulling her down, making it a controlling authority. Shop Till You Drop is still visible today, although it has become quite damaged over the years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bansky+shopping+cart&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS923US923&oq=bansky+shopping+cart&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i13i512j0i22i30l3j0i390i650.5175j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/10-facts/10-facts-about-banksys-trolleys
https://www.facebook.com/banksynews

https://kas-shopfittings.co.uk/blogs/news/shop-till-you-drop-with-banksy

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

A worker looks at a part of a wall with the work of graffiti artist Banksy, which was preserved and removed from a residential building that was heavily damaged during a Russian attack, in Ukraine, on May 13, 2023

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/05/photos-of-the-week-folly-field-falcon-box-fountain-fun/674108/

Friday, December 03, 2021

Banksy - A Great British Spraycation 2021

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Banksy took advantage of a bike without a back wheel, and painted a cool mural outside a beauty salon, showing a girl hula-hooping with a bicycle tire.

The salon the artwork appeared outside is on the junction of Rothesay Avenue and Ilkeston Road in Lenton, a popular residential area for students.

After Bansky's confirmation he was the creator, people began arriving to have their photographs taken with the artwork, with about 30 people there at one point, as well as police officers.

But not until after some asshole blackwashed (opposite of whitewash paint?) over the Banksy

because jealous people with no talent are disgusting pukes

A spokesman from Nottingham City Council said it was "amazing" Banksy had confirmed the work was his, adding "we obviously don't know why he chose Nottingham but we're a city famous for our rebels, like Robin Hood of course".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54582846

Friday, July 17, 2020

Bansky, that brilliant bastard, come up with a fantastic subway rat concept about the virus. The subway cleaners, oblivious to what the eff they were seeing, immediately cleaned it off. It's gone. Only the images of it being painted on remain

As the Instagram video ends, "I get lockdown" is written on a wall during a stop, and "but I get up again" appears as the doors close.

This is a riff of the lyrics "I get knocked down, but I get up again," from the song Tubthumping, by Chumbawamba. https://youtu.be/2H5uWRjFsGc

The piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage.

But by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews.

A TfL source said: "It was treated like any other graffiti on the network."

Banksy, who has previously destroyed his art on purpose when greedy bastards were auctioning it for millions, knew exactly what would happen to his work by putting it inside a carriage.

This was perhaps all part of the plan.