Banksy’s Graffiti: Between Vandalism and Artwork

A Brief Background: Banksy is a street artist whose identity is still unknown. Allegations say he was born in Bristol, England in 1974. Banksy started his artwork or what is also acknowledged as vandalism in the early 1990s. It later became viewed as a kind of art. His artwork started off as a graffiti artist whose main purpose is to deliver political, war critiques, capitalism messages to the public. Banksy later discussed other subjects such as members of the royal family, policemen, rats, apes etc… He apparently has the attitude of a rebellion. A documentary about Banksy, Exit through the Gift Shop, was released in 2010. It shows how much interested the public has became in him. The Political and Social Implications of Banksy’s Street Art: As mentioned previously, Banksy’s art work consisted on dealing with political and social implications such as political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed. However; there are certain graffiti figures that are debatable and that also lingered in the history of this particular kind of art, for instance the West Bank barrier and The Village Voice. An example of Banksy’s political and social implication art work emerged together, and according to Banksy’s refugee piece shows us how to protest — and grieve published in The Guardian by Suzanne Moore, is the piece that faces the French Embassy of the poster girl from the Les Misérables with tears in her eyes and a CS gas canister next to her. A barcode is found right next to this piece which takes the observer to a video of teargas being used in refugee camps in Calais. The message behind this piece is to spread awareness against violence toward refugees. Yet, the barcode idea was not new. Sweza, an artist from Berlin, used the barcode trick to help people view the video or audio of what has been wiped away. <a href="https://zeinafakhreddine.medium.com/banksys-graffiti-between-vandalism-and-artwork-27fc854ca555">Visit Now</a>