street art

Banksy is one of the famous street artist. Banksy is last simply because he is probably the most well known and most would have expected him to be the first one mentioned. Born in the mid-70s in Bristol in the west of England, Banksy rose to fame through his street art which often took the form of political satire.Banksy was influenced by the 80s French artist Blek le Rat.He uses a mixture of graffiti writing and stencilling for his arts,unfortunately much of his early work was dismissed as vandalism by the local council and removed but now it is considered art and even used to promote tourism. Banksy has probably played the greatest part in bringing street art to the public eye and even took over a large part of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery for 12 weeks in the summer,presenting more than 100 pieces of art and attracting over 300,000 visitors! Although now widely accepted as art, the work of Banksy still stirs up controversy as many who campaign to "Keep Britain Tidy".

He has his own explanation for his every single arts,for example,he commented the above art as "You're mind is working at its best when you're being paraniod.

Banksy's arts are awesome.Anyway this is just a small part into the world of street art that i've observed.