Download - Subculture pt2
+BANKSY’S MANIFESTO“The people who run our cities don‟t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the
right to exist unless it makes a profit…. The people who truly deface our neighborhoods
are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us
feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff…. Any advertisement in public space that gives
you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you. It‟s yours to
take, rearrange and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone
just threw at your head….
+ “Is graffiti art or vandalism?” Banksy asks himself on
his official website. “That word has a lot of negative
connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don‟t like to
use the word „art‟ at all.”
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Banksy covertly adds his own works onto the walls of major museums in both the UK
and the US. He says: “The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group
create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred
people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a
tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...”
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“Some people want to make the world a better place. I just
wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t
like it, you can paint over it!”
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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the
bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the
slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster
area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so
many to say so little”.
+ Banksy in the Streets
“Bus stops are far more
interesting and useful places to
have art than in museums.
Graffiti has more chance of
meaning something or changing
stuff than anything indoors.
Graffiti has been used to start
revolutions, stop wars, and
generally is the voice of people
who aren‟t listened to. Graffiti is
one of those few tools you have
if you have almost nothing. And
even if you don‟t come up with a
picture to cure world poverty you
can make somebody smile while
they‟re having a piss.”
+ Banksy on the West Bank
Braving threats and even
warning shots from Israeli
security forces, Banksy
managed to make a statement
through his works on the West
Bank barrier. Reactions were
mixed to his contributions to
the wall, but the coverage
certainly raised global
attention. This kind of work
shows the development of
Banksy from a local subversive
to an artist with a global
political agenda.
+ JR on the West Bank
Like Banksy, JR has something to say. Taking the idea of
„gallery work to the streets‟ to a new level. His wish is to use art
– to “turn the world inside out”.
+Urban Culture & Graffiti ArtThe Manifesto of JR
Like Banksy, JR has something to say.
Taking the idea of a „sidewalk gallery‟ to a new level.
Big ambition – to “turn the world inside out”.
JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to
show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face
across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious
TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more
about his work and learn how you can join in at
insideoutproject.net.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the
_world_inside_out.html