Banksy in Dublin?

panda100 · 08-01-2008 01:21PM #1

Was walking by Pearse street staion yesterday and couldnt help but notice a piece of art on the bridge that looked incredibly like banksy. (famous graffiti artist :http://www.banksy.co.uk/ )
There was three large pictures of madeline mc canns face stencilled in an andy warhol type fashion,all differnet colours.Then there was a black and white typical banksy style drawing of a young girl.
Its very unusal graffiti for Dublin.Just wondering has anyone else seen it and how long its been up there for?

08-01-2008 01:25PM

Heard about this alright, dont think its Banksy though, since he's now mega rich (one of the richest living artists in the world) I doubt he'd still go around stencilling stuff but then again you never know!

"Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge"

Nowt on his site bout it....

08-01-2008 01:29PM

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monkeyfudge · 08-01-2008 01:30PM

The Scientist wrote: »

A Member with 4 years and almost 3000 posts and you still put this in AH???

Don't you know how much fun it is to wind up Biko?

08-01-2008 01:31PM

Where should he put it?

Is there a graffiti/stencilling forum?

Doubt the art heads would take to kindly to this thread in their area....

As im sure its not "art"

:rolleyes:

lol

Sleepy · 08-01-2008 01:38PM

Fieldog, the British Mueseum would disagree with you:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article223663.ece

Banksy's work is most certainly art. If only Grift and associated twats would take a leaf out of his book...

Anyone got a pic of this?

cellulite_sally · 08-01-2008 01:43PM

Moné

watna · 08-01-2008 01:46PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Fieldog, the British Mueseum would disagree with you:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article223663.ece

Banksy's work is most certainly art. If only Grift and associated twats would take a leaf out of his book...

Anyone got a pic of this?

I'm actually near enough to it. I've often wondered what it is. If I only had my camera I could get a picture up.

aphex™ · 08-01-2008 01:51PM

Possibly Dogfaceboy.

copeyhagen · 08-01-2008 01:53PM

of course he still stencils outdoors u moron!! check his site out!

and the quality of the maddy stencil while good is nowhere near the quality of his stuff.

and to that twat slagging off grift. that guy has got some serious art skills. have u seen the giant grift icn chrome piece before connolly station coming from the northside? that took some serious skill to do..over a few nights..in the dark.

and have u not noticed the chap hasnt been around in about a year...duh....

monkeyfudge · 08-01-2008 02:02PM

copeyhagen wrote: »

and to that twat slagging off grift. that guy has got some serious art skills. have u seen the giant grift icn chrome piece before connolly station coming from the northside? that took some serious skill to do..over a few nights..in the dark. .

Oh wow... he wrote his name... how inspiring.

Sleepy · 08-01-2008 02:07PM

copeyhagan, if you admire the 'skill' of not being nicked for spraying a wall, sure Grift has skill. A drop shadowed bubble letter tag does not qualify as art imho.

starn · 08-01-2008 02:08PM

It's been there since at least September. Dont think it's Banksy. Reckon it could be Dogface.

08-01-2008 02:11PM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Oh wow... he wrote his name... how inspiring.

Wonder if he spelt it correctly? As you may well know, spelling one's own name is quite tricky, especially when you have to use a stencil to accomplish it.

Lux23 · 08-01-2008 02:16PM

Its not him. Just a copycat type of artist, there were other stencils of women in a bikini tied up but they seem to have been scratched off the wall.

08-01-2008 02:23PM

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08-01-2008 02:24PM

My g/f got me the Banksy book for xmas, tis a great read/coffee table fodder, some savage pieces alright, she knows I like a lot of his stuff as its my pc background etc....

He is apparently 2nd richest living artist in the world, apparently after the dude who did that diamond skull....

Lux23 · 08-01-2008 02:30PM

Fieldog wrote: »

My g/f got me the Banksy book for xmas, tis a great read/coffee table fodder, some savage pieces alright, she knows I like a lot of his stuff as its my pc background etc....

He is apparently 2nd richest living artist in the world, apparently after the dude who did that diamond skull....

Was that Damien Hirst?

I was thinking of becoming a conceptual artist, I have no talent but Im good at making things up as I go along. I already have an idea but I need 6 naked men and alot of swiss rolls. If you have either please PM me.

08-01-2008 02:41PM

Lux23 wrote: »

Was that Damien Hirst?

I was thinking of becoming a conceptual artist, I have no talent but Im good at making things up as I go along. I already have an idea but I need 6 naked men and alot of swiss rolls. If you have either please PM me.

Thats the one alright Damien Hirst,

I was thinkin the same meself, all these arty farty types and their statements, I could do better with a bic biro and an A4 pad, Banksy watch out!

I did see some of his work in London bout 2005 and it looked class, no one knew what it was about, or who did it at the time, I still have the camera phone pics of em somewhere, it was part of his rat collection, in Piccadilly....

Badu · 08-01-2008 02:42PM

Methinks it is Asbestos.

Lux23 · 08-01-2008 02:46PM

Badu wrote: »

Methinks it is Asbestos.

Is he based in Dublin? I have seen those little posters in a few places.

Badu · 08-01-2008 02:48PM

Lux23 wrote: »

Is he based in Dublin? I have seen those little posters in a few places.

Yres, he is a very good street artist. His stuff is all over dublin, I notice it in Smithfield esp. Dolls heads with a black rectangle over their eyes is on the pillars at Jervis luas stop.

I retract that it might be asbestos actually, its way to obvious for it to be him.

copeyhagen · 08-01-2008 02:53PM

Sleepy wrote: »

copeyhagan, if you admire the 'skill' of not being nicked for spraying a wall, sure Grift has skill. A drop shadowed bubble letter tag does not qualify as art imho.

pffft while you are entitled to your opinion that piece is not a "shadowed bubble letter tag", the height of the wall is well over 20 feet at its highest part, the structure of the letters on a wall that climbs higher steeply itself would have been hard, keeping the letters to be the same diameter would have been hard.

lets not get carried away on the whole grift topic. There have been topics opened and closed before. There will always be people that admire his work and people that hate it, so lets leave it at that.

Each to their own...

ems_12 · 08-01-2008 02:56PM

Fieldog wrote: »

My g/f got me the Banksy book for xmas, tis a great read/coffee table fodder, some savage pieces alright,

The book is great, I didn't know much about Banksy only a few of his more famous pieces, and my wee sis got the book for xmas, so this topic just caught my eye, had to join in!

Sleepy · 08-01-2008 03:03PM

copeyhagen wrote: »

pffft while you are entitled to your opinion that piece is not a "shadowed bubble letter tag", the height of the wall is well over 20 feet at its highest part, the structure of the letters on a wall that climbs higher steeply itself would have been hard, keeping the letters to be the same diameter would have been hard.

lets not get carried away on the whole grift topic. There have been topics opened and closed before. There will always be people that admire his work and people that hate it, so lets leave it at that.

Each to their own...

I'll admit that I can see the skill in doing such a thing, I just don't consider it art. To me at least skill and talent are quite different things e.g. I'd consider DJ'ing a skill versus composing piano pieces an art/talent; technical drawing a skill versus painting portraits an art.

panda100 · 08-01-2008 03:23PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Banksy's work is most certainly art. If only Grift and associated twats would take a leaf out of his book...

Anyone got a pic of this?

Alas I have no camera phone or camera. Its at the bridge just near the back of Trinity.Soz not great with directions!
Im a big Banksy fan.His work is ingenious,modern and very relevant.As he says himself I prefer street art/graffitti to the mind numbing,soul destroying billboard adverts that are inflicted on us everywhere.

Badu wrote: »

Yres, he is a very good street artist. His stuff is all over dublin, I notice it in Smithfield esp. Dolls heads with a black rectangle over their eyes is on the pillars at Jervis luas stop.
.

I always wondered who put up those.I saw the 'find my remote and free me from nationwide' one down near the hapenny bridge and had a good laugh at it. The lost series is classic http://www.theartofasbestos.com/

Ive been seeing some good graffiti round Dublin recently. I passed Mount merrion school and convent yesterday.On the back gate there was a sign saying 'NO ENTRY to convent' and underneath someone had written 'or pussy'. Made me laugh anyways.

Setun · 08-01-2008 03:39PM

Fieldog wrote: »

He is apparently 2nd richest living artist in the world, apparently after the dude who did that diamond skull....

Is that true? Didn't think he was that wealthy.

I seriously doubt it's a banksy piece. It's not spray painted, pretty sure it's a screenprint. And not at all his style imo.

Badu · 08-01-2008 03:41PM

No, its def not Banksy.

08-01-2008 03:42PM

Sleepy wrote: »

I'll admit that I can see the skill in doing such a thing, I just don't consider it art. To me at least skill and talent are quite different things e.g. I'd consider DJ'ing a skill versus composing piano pieces an art/talent; technical drawing a skill versus painting portraits an art.

I played guitar in a band for years before I took up djing, I consider neither a skill or talent tbh....

As you say Sleepy, an artist, to me, is someone who composes the piece as opposed to someone playing the piece i.e djing is only the medium, the gallery if you like, the composer should get the benefit, not the dj playing the track, but the dj is a way of getting the composer heard (Radio/club)

Its hard to class Banksy in either of these lights, as he uses the public as a canvas, a lot of people would see it as art,but a lot of art minded people wouldnt even utter it in the same breath as (insertnamehere) artist...

Id be interested to know if any of you guys (maybe from the art forum?) would consider Banksy's work as art? Or crap?

Gordon · 08-01-2008 03:45PM

Grift: Windows Clipart in a spraycan.

Banksy is unbelievable. Kudos to him.

Setun · 08-01-2008 03:59PM

Fieldog wrote: »

I played guitar in a band for years before I took up djing, I consider neither a skill or talent tbh....

Id be interested to know if any of you guys (maybe from the art forum?) would consider Banksy's work as art? Or crap?

Of course there's skill in being a good dj. Reading the crowd, beatmatching and mixing - you have to have a natural aptitude for it. Unless you're one of those goons who are about as good as an ipod on shuffle or NOW61 or whatever teh fook pop compilation is out now, and there are many "djs|" like that playing the clubs.

Banksy's work imo is art, although his politics seem to be flawed now that he is successful.

Banksy in Dublin?

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