Banksy's Kissing Coppers sold at US auction - BBC News.
Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director, active since the 1990s. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities,and art displays throughout the world.
Kissing Coppers By Banksy Sold At US Auction The piece originally appeared on the side of a pub near Brighton city centre and is the latest Banksy mural to be sold abroad. Fill 2 Copy 11.
Banksy's GCSE-level protest art was banal but tolerable when dealing with CCTV or kissing policemen, staging mock-guerrilla gallery takeovers, or creating Disneyland parodies. It is, however, horrendously unequipped to deal with the terrible realities of the West Bank.
A small number of Banksy's works can be seen in the movie Children of Men, including a stenciled image of two policemen kissing and another stencil of a child looking down a shop. In June 2009, the Banksy vs Bristol Museum show opened at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, featuring more than 100 works of art, including animatronics and installations; it is his largest exhibition yet.
Banksy was born in Bristol, England in 1975. Banksy’s real name is Robert Banks, but his name, as well as his birth date is questionable. Not too much is known about Banksy because he tries to remain anonymous. Banksy started doing underground graffiti in England at a very young age. His early graffiti consisted of quick “tags” of his name.
Familiar images — the Queen, smiling children, policemen — are given a dark twist designed to wake observers up from the 9 to 5 rat race — also a common Banksy theme, typically delivered in person by talking rats — a rat race that literally itself streams through Banksy’s borderless gallery of streets to make you reassess the structures and symbols that form the backdrops to our lives.
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