Banksy's Mona Lisa
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Over the coarse of this class I have seen many different types of work from many artists. I have learned almost every artist in today's society has a different way of doing art, unless they are taking an image or idea from a piece of art from another artist and changing it to make it their own. While reading the blogs i found a piece very interesting because it was an image of the Mona Lisa holding a rocket launcher. This was a really powerful image to me. This is because it really got me thinking as to why he would do this. I thought that it might have been a humorous dipction of the society we live in today.
I looked up more information on Banksy and found out that he is an anonymous English graffiti artist. Banksy was known best for his stencils which would feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. Graffiti is street art and it is usually with the use of spray paint, stencils or stickers. Artists like Banksy write random names to identify themselves and their artwork. Many people do not approve of graffiti and find it very destructive and a nuisance to society and others love seeing the colorful pieces of art that the artist put plenty of time,skill, and risk or arrest in to. In many countrys graffiti is accepted and most could really care less about it, but in America it is illegal and people can go to jail or even prison and end up with felonies for this.
There is some good description here, and I am glad you discovered a contemporary artist who appeals to you. I wonder, though, if you could do more to interpret what this image is saying, or how a viewer might react to seeing it in the city. You digress here a lot about issues of legality and so on, which are all valid points, but what is your judgement on the work itself? Is it successful? At what? Why? Can you expand on what it might be saying about society?
ReplyDeleteI like Banksy as well i think it was cool that you choose him. I would like to hear what you think it might mean, and how it might relate to you.
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