BANKSY

Banksy is a British-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and finally, a painter; although his identity has remained a mystery, even after over 20 years of being involved within the graffiti scene. He has become the most notorious street artists in the world because of his political and bold street art that always portrays a visual messages. His also developed an entire art subculture devoted to his works. He has worked with many different styles of street art media. His work not only includes many powerful, often controversial images, but they may also be found throughout the internet as viral images.

The most common form of street art that bansky uses, is stencils. These are often in the form of multi-layered stencils or combined with other media sources such as spray paint. He also combines anything found within the street, for example street signs, building rubble, or even already made graffiti typography to convey his message, making beautiful street art.  His work is often ironic and combines dark humour, to most likely not make his work just about the depression and statements created by today’s society, politics or beliefs.

Although we may know a lot about banksy amazing art work and style of working, very little is known about him, as he refuses to be interviewed and keeps his identity carefully maintained. The media and his fans have always questioned about his identity as there has been a lot of accusations due to a variety of identity claims. Banksy also seems to partly create an importance to understand his character by a few of his graffiti art work. Recently there was a theory included in an article newspaper publication, pointing out his identity of being a Bristol resident by the name Robin Gunninham. But what's more shocking about bansky identity is that he has managed to completely hide it from his family, till this date no banksy identity claim has ever been correct.

The images I’ve presented are a few of his artwork that I consider to be a big impact on society, and also stand out the most to me because of how Bansky has presented and laid out the image, the colours are dark but still intriguing because of how one colour makes the other stand out more, complementing each other. Looking at the images, they make me wonder about the message he is conveying through the artwork, trying to communicate with the public in a visual perspective that makes you look deeper than the artwork itself, trying to also work out the identity of the artist through his pieces.