Banksy's incredibly overrated

my 10+ Bansky t shirts are always great ice breakers. So much good chank material.

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Originally posted by WittyHandle Banksy's incredibly overrated

Yeah.

Still doesn't stop me from enjoying his work tho. I really liked Exit Through the Gift Shop

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I liked it too. I just think that his attempts at conveying a message are really weak. He's great at drawing attention to himself, and I actually do respect him for that, but his material isn't strong enough to merit the praise he gets.

Made from paper and Watercolor:







(hyper)Realistic Paintings are my favorite:









And this one was painted with BIC pens:

I'd seen that last one before, it's excellent.

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Originally posted by WittyHandle I liked it too. I just think that his attempts at conveying a message are really weak. He's great at drawing attention to himself, and I actually do respect him for that, but his material isn't strong enough to merit the praise he gets.

I like his stuff a lot, but yeah, he's definitely overrated.

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I've never known anyone to 'rate' Banksy, save for appreciating what he does: incognito and efficient work at the height of modern subversion. Maybe I have not read enough 'critiques' of him, but he has always seemed to defy such things. He's a great, in my mind, even if the technical work of others -often commissioned!!- is more elaborate, more classically artistic. What Banksy does is simply not the same as other artists, and he where and how he does it is precisely why it is significant.

People thinking he is 'overrated' and writing him off is precisely why he does what he does. Rating art is a dead end.

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I think the issue more is the people who think he's the greatest and most brilliant artist of all time. I don't think any critics believe that, but a lot of people on the streets act like that.

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Originally posted by Lews a lot of people on the streets

I think The Streets are precisely his audience. He doesn't do work for critics. Maybe that's not to some people's particulars, but the inherently viral nature of his art speaks for itself.

I loved his book - Wall And Piece - because of his discourse. He can put a piece up under a minute and be gone; all trace of the person immaterial, all art of the persona lasting far beyond the point that authorities rinse it from their edifice. There is something beautiful and essential about street art to be said of how he works, even if it's woefully popularist in some sense, it is likewise invulnerable because of its temporal nature; and he is an artist because he is acutely aware of this.

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Originally posted by netroM

I would love to live in that world.

I think there's more than one person operating in coordination under the name Banksy, but that's just my theory based on absolutely zero facts. I think Hal's right in that his appeal is largely based on what he gets away with undetected. For me that isn't any basis for a name I care about. The only thing that matters to me is what their work looks like. I respect that what he does isn't easy to get away with, but in the end all I really care about is the work an artist puts out. I don't care much if they suffered for years or whipped a piece off in seconds. The journey only matters after they interest me with their output.