BUT is it art Banksy?
GRAFITTI art by the acclaimed artist Banksy on streets in Tower Hamlets is to be painted over.
Stencilled artwork from the guerrilla artist can be seen on walls across London, but Tower Hamlets is the first council to treat them as vandalism.
The plan comes as 11 pieces of the artist’s work go on sale on Wednesday.
Banksy, from Bristol, made his name with public art and subversive stunts. His works now sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The actress Angelina Jolie reportedly bought one of his works for more than £200,000.
Eleven of Banksy’s stencilled artworks go on sale on Wednesday at Bonham’s auction house in Knightsbridge.
Upper Paleolithic man, eat your heart out…
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October 25th, 2007 at 8:04 am
No books required, intellect is as intellect does. Nobody mentioned beauty. Only you.
My post still stands! Perception is a personal thing, based on experience and shall we say Corruption. Some call it “education”
In all fairness even Banksey himself calls his work shit
October 25th, 2007 at 7:47 am
could the ‘onorouble gentlman please refer to my previous reply after swallowing his apparently seldom used thesaurus.
cuz… it ain’t in the eye of the beholder at all… art isn’t beauty, beauty isn’t art! the two are often mutually exclusive in fact. by necessity.
haywain haywaen heywain
see?
October 24th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
How can anyone quantify abstraction or the beholders perception of matters comprising this googleplex of variables within the subject/s?
He says tomato, she says tomáto, tomáto, ,tomao, tomáto….
Hmmmm food
October 24th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
and you side stepped a reply by contriving a non response. fabulous. i thought at least you would raise the level by saying ‘a child of five could do it’
October 24th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
You haven’t tasted my Wife’s cooking obviously. (you walked right in to that one)
October 24th, 2007 at 7:10 am
and of course, it *would* be. being myself a practicing (arf) ‘traditional’ artist, it always amuses me to read slightly vehement critiques of modern art by people who have no understanding of what ‘art’ is. i bet you just LOVE an unmade bed, don’t ya?
if i declare it art then it goddam well IS art. if you throw the dinner against the wall- is it the dinner hitting the wall that makes it art? is it the actual substance and the patterns it makes that make it art? or is it the act of throwing that is the art bit?
or maybe you just like a nice Haywain. erk.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
You could throw your dinner against the wall and some stupid moron would say it’s art.