“ I want out his place is too cold, keeper smells, boring, boring, boring.”
Banksy found in stencils the potencial for strong powerfull images to captivate an audience and twist their perceptions. In this picture, Banksy has painted a soldier seated with his rifle in his hand and a bird perched o the end of the rifle, they are both sat looking at each other face to face.
This is what Banksy is about, He also painted Lenin ice skating, and used the the old outline of a flyer which had once been stuck to the wall, to frame his piece.
Banksy says that evan a rabbit playing a piano looks ‘hard’ as a stencil. Graffiti artists are constantly making a mark in different ways such as what poke did from the ‘ITM’ crew in Germany.
An old military tank had been placed at some sort of rememberance military sight, on show with a plaque in front of it. Poke and his crew visited the tank in the middle of the night and painted the whole thing pink. It was their way of attacking something that represented war and destruction and totally flipping it around, I guess you could have called it the love tank.
This is how modern graffiti artists are changing. No longer are they going out in the middle of the night, just to paint their stylised lettering, but they are grouping together, planning and executing works of art that aren`t always as simple as they may look. Graffiti artists are selecting their targets more carefully and choosing what they do to the desired target in order to achieve some other point, rather than displaying their talent in Graffiti lettering.
“If you want to say something and have people listen, then you have to wear a mask.”
Existencilism, sp publishing.
Has pieces throughout Europe (examples)
A subversive rat (mention le rat )
Barcelona zoo or London zoo.
“Laugh now but one day we’ll be in charge”.
Pulling the plug on the city hall.
