Banksy

elastico

Key word is "Bank"

What idiot gives €88000 for a print???

Mr. Incognito

I think he's a genius personally

elastico

Oh I see Bambi is heir to the throne. Get in folks, money to be made.

ricero

The documentary he made "exit through the gift shop" is great. I like his street art

TallGlass

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

I think he's a genius personally

Hes looking well these days

Wibbs

elastico wrote: »

Key word is "Bank"

What idiot gives €88000 for a print???

The thing is E, "Art" today is mostly about a mutually agreed with shared notion among investors who hang mutually agreed on "Art" on walls in closed rooms where they grow more expensive. The framed traded bitcoin of the gilded bourgeoisie*.

The value of looking is overwhelmed and replaced by the value of economics.

Whether one is faced with a Rubens or a Rothko, or indeed a Banksy, few save for children are not painfully aware of what it is worth to the greasy till. One may as well hang index linked dollar bills and be done with it.

This does not mean art of today has no value beyond the economic, but it's hard to crane one's neck around to see it. And don't get me started on the need for a artwork that requires argument before looking and thinking and feeling.





*since the rise of the middle classes the bourgeoisie replaced the gentry and clergy in influencing art. However in among the oneupmanship of that class, there was at least some curation and appreciation going on to at least some degree. Now that is at some removal and has been since the 70's.

selectamatic

ricero wrote: »

The documentary he made "exit through the gift shop" is great. I like his street art

The ch4 one about his graffiti/street art feud with King Robbo is a great watch too.

It's called graffiti wars.

Pinch Flat

I lived in London for a while and loved seeing banksys work around the place. My favourite was the colonel sanders in Islington.

http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/Images/Main/Sections/blog/banksy_kentuckyfox_1000.jpg

frag420

I'm Banksy...

jameorahiely

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I lived in London for a while and loved seeing banksys work around the place. My favourite was the colonel sanders in Islington.

http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/Images/Main/Sections/blog/banksy_kentuckyfox_1000.jpg

This one in bristol always makes me smile when I pass it

JupiterKid

I don't care what people say about Banksy - I think he's great!:)

Sir Osis of Liver.

If Banksy sprayed a scuttery ****e against a wall in Mosul,some pretentious cnut would be willing to hand over 50 grand for a reproduction.

Bollocks.

Realt Dearg Sec

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

If Banksy sprayed a scuttery ****e against a wall in Mosul,some pretentious cnut would be willing to hand over 50 grand for a reproduction.

Bollocks.

What street artists do you prefer?

bnt

Another day, another story suggesting that Banksy may have been identified: Daily Mail. This one interesting because of the source of the leak: someone who has known Banksy for years.

SEPT 23 1989

Better to be a rich idiot than a poor one

greencap

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

If Banksy sprayed a scuttery ****e against a wall in Mosul,some pretentious cnut would be willing to hand over 50 grand for a reproduction.

Bollocks.

Yeah but if mr banksy gets hit by a car the next day your 50 grand of scutter might suddenly become worth 100 grand.

meanwhile, if you leave your 50 in the bank it will earn 1% while prices around you rise at 2%.

Ipso

He's no Damien Hirst.

I enjoy his work, but I've always seen it as being political wit, as opposed to being art, necessarily.

I think it's different to real art in the same way as Oscar Wilde's barbed and sardonic quotes are separate from Wilde's greatest works, which have much greater depth than the individual one-liners they contain.

I know it's odd to invoke Wilde when defending the intention of purpose given Wilde's aestheticism but I'm only using him to draw a contrast between genuine artistic work and public flourishes, which are not 'art'.

bodice ripper

Street art gives my soul a rash.

Rachiee

Its not his fault people are willing to spend crazy money (they are not in it for the art by and large it's either ego it investment)
The great thing about street art is it's more accessible and as it's illegal it is ultimately subversive. His work is witty and political. I really like him.

Guy:Incognito

greencap wrote: »

Yeah but if mr banksy gets hit by a car the next day your 50 grand of scutter might suddenly become worth 100 grand.

meanwhile, if you leave your 50 in the bank it will earn 1% while prices around you rise at 2%.

Unless they just get a new banksy every time he dies, like a goldfish, or fungi.......