Banksy : photo of
an artwork by Banksy which can be seen in Brooklyn
This piece represents 2 Japanese women on a
bridge wearing a kimono, carrying a fan), there is also a small bonsai at the bottom. it’s a stencil. The graffiti
was done on a wall in Brooklyn. This artwork triggered various reactions: we
saw a picture of a rival graffiti artist
trying to deface the work, he spray
painted squiggles over the 2 feminine figures. He may have been jealous or
maybe he hated Banksy’s work. Several other graffiti artists reacted
negatively, because they considered that Banksy was trespassing and invading
their turf, their territory. At the same time, there are 2 men who intervene
and try to stop the artist from vandalising the piece.
After that, the owner of the building decided
to protect/preserve Banksy’s work and he put some plexiglass over it and
installed a metal shutter to protect it at night. There is also a man who is
guarding the piece. Now people come and take pictures of it. Someone even
offered the owner of the building a million dollars to take down the bricks in
the wall but he refused (he turned down the offer). Banksy’s pieces are worth
tens of thousands of dollars (at auction sales). On the pictures we studied,
someone had written “value is arbitrary” next to the graffiti. This sort of
thing would not be possible in a museum.
Street art promotes exchanges for better or for worse.
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