Banksy
Banksy is a British famous street artist which combines stencil and graffiti. There are huge amount of his fan especially from young people, because he is very talented, unusual, mysterious and naughty.
He became famous after he took his works to museums in London, and hanged them on the wall with little captions without any permission, even though no one noticed. He also does graffiti on public walls with Strong messages of normally anti-war using stencil print.
After he became famous, he had a lot of offers from well-known companies such as Microsoft, Nike, Sony,etc but he turned off all of them. The other thing makes him mysterious is he has never showed his face, he even has a spokesman to communicate with media.
His behavior makes his work's value higher, like Christina Aguilera bought an original of Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times its estimated value.
He has been called "art terrorist" or "art guerrilla" because he displayed his works in museums, and he draw on walls in Israel, during that period he almost got shot by soldiers several times. He appears not only public places, he made a dummy of Paris Hilton's CD in HMV, it had exactly the same bar code as the real one on it. The real one and Banksy's one look so similar so HMV were selling them without any notice till spokesman's announcement.
Banksy is a British famous street artist which combines stencil and graffiti. There are huge amount of his fan especially from young people, because he is very talented, unusual, mysterious and naughty.He became famous after he took his works to museums in London, and hanged them on the wall with little captions without any permission, even though no one noticed. He also does graffiti on public walls with Strong messages of normally anti-war using stencil print.
After he became famous, he had a lot of offers from well-known companies such as Microsoft, Nike, Sony,etc but he turned off all of them. The other thing makes him mysterious is he has never showed his face, he even has a spokesman to communicate with media.
His behavior makes his work's value higher, like Christina Aguilera bought an original of Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the style of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times its estimated value.
He has been called "art terrorist" or "art guerrilla" because he displayed his works in museums, and he draw on walls in Israel, during that period he almost got shot by soldiers several times. He appears not only public places, he made a dummy of Paris Hilton's CD in HMV, it had exactly the same bar code as the real one on it. The real one and Banksy's one look so similar so HMV were selling them without any notice till spokesman's announcement.
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