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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Is that a w**ksy?
Anyone got a problem with this?
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Never seen that - I was just surmising. But interesting to see, thanks for posting.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
All of his works are, and I don't mean @Fnaar's.
The joy of graffiti/street art is it can go as quickly as it appears. My home city of Bristol is awash with some amazing and some awful work but it's not meant to last forever so I am sure Banksy doesn't care as much as the journos. Poor decision by the local council but as previously stated it may reappear as some of his work has in the past with a satirical twist. It's all about walls and peace people 
Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
- Location
- Smurfette's Kitchen
The story I heard is that Banksy hid under a train carriage while being pursued by police for spraying pictures on train carriages. While under the carriage he noticed a number stencilled on the bottom of the carriage, and realised he could do his work quickly if he made a stencil first.
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
And in the morning, when the locals notice, they can go to Banksy's official website, and if it appears on there then it's a real Banksy.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Painting over it is an artistic statement which I admire- something as awful as that is OK for a greetings card, and besides it's public art so has no value, except in the eyes of a greedy, artless philistine.... [breathe]The joy of graffiti/street art is it can go as quickly as it appears. My home city of Bristol is awash with some amazing and some awful work but it's not meant to last forever so I am sure Banksy doesn't care as much as the journos. Poor decision by the local council but as previously stated it may reappear as some of his work has in the past with a satirical twist. It's all about walls and peace people
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
He should have stuck with stencilling numbers on the underside of trains.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
i dont' know what all the fuss is about... graffiti gets removed... Must every single bit of graffiti by Banksy be listed or protected.. Personally, i don't think so.
What was her wrist action like when she was shaking the can?
swee'pea99
Squire
1) What's awful about it?
2) It would make a rather rum greetings card
3) Why is art valueless because it's public?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
My only beef is that it's criminal damage.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
It's clearly an anti bigotry message being depicted. What complete idiots.
That could be said of a lot of art. Most of the value lies in it's desirability and not it's inherent worth.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
1+2 It's pop art, OK for a greetings card + if people like it then fine but people don't need to get all hot and bothered if the owner of the building wishes to paint over it- nobody's lost out.
3 Art in the public domain accessible over the internet has no financial value- it's free for anyone to see, same as the original grafitti was.
3 Art in the public domain accessible over the internet has no financial value- it's free for anyone to see, same as the original grafitti was.
swee'pea99
Squire
Well, the many people who would have appreciated it have lost out.
I still say it would make a weird greetings card. (Happy Birthday? Happy Anniversary?)
3) 'Financial' is not the only measure of value. But even by that (somewhat philistine) definition:
"Last year London's Haringey Council backed an unsuccessful campaign to return Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) to the wall of a pound shop in Wood Green.
The "symbol of local pride" had appeared on the north London wall just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in May 2012, only to be sold to a US collector through Keszler for £750,000." - BBC
