Banksy
The artist known as Banksy is a graffiti based artist born out of the Bristol area. Although his identity is still unknown to the public his images are very much well known. spotted all over the country, mainly in London, Banksy produced graffiti art on the side of buildings and public subways using stencils to create images that speak out about the society we live in.
This is just one example of his funny side to his street art, showing a monkey with a t-shirt indicated that one day they will in fact take over our planet. But a lot of his work shows images protesting for anti-war, anti-capitlist and anti-establishment.
This is one of his famous anti-war art pieces, showing two war soldiers secretly painting a peace sign before someone can see. I think Banksy is trying to send out a message here than even the soldiers of war just want peace rather than constant battles. His other images include a little girl searching a policeman, a young boy behind a snipers back looking excited to see him shoot, two policemen kissing, a man hanging from a window hiding from his lovers husband, and many many more, some of which have sold or up to £40.000 around the world including to people such as kate moss.
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