Banksy

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,024
    Ah, I see the argument has been had upthread.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,024
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-34589075
    Dover District Council has said it will be using CCTV to monitor the artwork, on York Street, after it was defaced
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
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    The framed Girl With Balloon, one of the artist's best known works, was auctioned by Sotheby's in London.
    The piece which shows a girl reaching towards a heart-shaped balloon was the final work sold at the auction. However, moments after the piece went under the hammer, the canvas passed through a shredder that was hidden inside the frame. Posting a picture of the moment on Instagram, Banksy wrote: "Going, going, gone..." The 2006 piece sold for £1.042m on Friday night.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-45770028

    Ha, have to laugh at that.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Brilliant.

    As far as the ‘is it art’ argument goes, he/they is/are no Futura or Stash in the graffiti and street art world, but he/they certainly nailed the stencil style and managed to cop a major break. He/they are taking huge wads of money off rich buyers who couldn’t give a toss about the actual piece - so kudos for that.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    So clever. Brilliant.
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    I reckon the bidder was Banksy and because the piece was destroyed the lot can't be sold. I also think Sotheby's must have been in on it because there's no way they didn't know that there was a shredder built in. They will have had to authenticate the work for the sale.

    It's probably worth even more now as well :-)

    Hype at its best.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    I bet Leonardo da Caprio wishes he'd thought of that. He probably invented the shredder, too.
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    I also think Sotheby's must have been in on it because there's no way they didn't know that there was a shredder built in. They will have had to authenticate the work for the sale.
    Do they always mount the art on the wall when they sell it? And wire it in.

    Good publicity stunt though, very mission impossible/inspector gadget.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Robert88 wrote:
    I bet Leonardo da Caprio wishes he'd thought of that. He probably invented the shredder, too.

    Wrong Leo?
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Better clip...

    Check out @girlsreallyrule’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/sta ... 90816?s=09
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    I like the looks on the faces in that video. I read that one art dealer estimated that the value of the work post-shredding had increased by at least 50%.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    I bet Leonardo da Caprio wishes he'd thought of that. He probably invented the shredder, too.

    Wrong Leo?

    Auto correction and spell checker - they're a bit thick.
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  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Pinno wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    I bet Leonardo da Caprio wishes he'd thought of that. He probably invented the shredder, too.

    Wrong Leo?

    Auto correction and spell checker - they're a bit thick.

    Injury those i wool shut it done about fur Ukraine luck.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    ^ Precisely.

    The number of significant individuals both historical and present that the spell checker does not recognise, shows a) how badly designed/programmed it is and b) how North American Centric it is too.
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    cougie wrote:
    Better clip...

    Check out @girlsreallyrule’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/sta ... 90816?s=09

    Cheers, captures the moment well.
  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    Banksy is a genius artist because he is relevant and conscious. Our opinions of him and his work and all art are suprisingly and paradoxically irrelevant. I don't mean that we should suppress our ideas and emotions, but looking at art through an objective lens gives us a better understanding of it. Bad art is mostly non-existent because we don't talk about it, or go and experience it, so it falls from consciousness. Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances. I advise all Banksy haters to not talk about him!
    Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

    Voltaire
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    meursault wrote:
    Banksy is a genius artist because he is relevant and conscious. Our opinions of him and his work and all art are suprisingly and paradoxically irrelevant. I don't mean that we should suppress our ideas and emotions, but looking at art through an objective lens gives us a better understanding of it. Bad art is mostly non-existent because we don't talk about it, or go and experience it, so it falls from consciousness. Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances. I advise all Banksy haters to not talk about him!
    There's always one....
  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    meursault wrote:
    Banksy is a genius artist because he is relevant and conscious. Our opinions of him and his work and all art are suprisingly and paradoxically irrelevant. I don't mean that we should suppress our ideas and emotions, but looking at art through an objective lens gives us a better understanding of it. Bad art is mostly non-existent because we don't talk about it, or go and experience it, so it falls from consciousness. Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances. I advise all Banksy haters to not talk about him!
    There's always one....

    Gadzuks! Defeated once again, by a rapier like wit.
    Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

    Voltaire
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    meursault wrote:
    Banksy is a genius artist because he is relevant and conscious. Our opinions of him and his work and all art are suprisingly and paradoxically irrelevant. I don't mean that we should suppress our ideas and emotions, but looking at art through an objective lens gives us a better understanding of it. Bad art is mostly non-existent because we don't talk about it, or go and experience it, so it falls from consciousness. Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances. I advise all Banksy haters to not talk about him!

    I have change the font colour to bright yellow to adapt it's meaning.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,427
    http://blekleratoriginal.com/en/portfolio/annees-1980/

    waaaaaaaaay before banksy and the luvvies who think he's doing something new
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    sungod wrote:
    http://blekleratoriginal.com/en/portfolio/annees-1980/

    waaaaaaaaay before banksy and the luvvies who think he's doing something new

    He said it:
    meursault wrote:
    Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    Pinnoksy wrote:
    moresalt wrote:
    Banksy is a geniusartist because he is relevant and conscious. Our opinions of him and his work and all art are suprisingly and paradoxically irrelevant. I don't mean that we should suppress our ideas and emotions, but looking at art through an objective lens gives us a better understanding of it. Bad art is mostly non-existent because we don't talk about it, or go and experience it, so it falls from consciousness. Though it may re-emerge as good art under some circumstances. I advise all Banksy haters to not talk about him.
    I have changed the font colours to look clever.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Art is what the the art world says it is.
    Sorry Pinno, could not read the words in different colours - hurt my head. So may have missed your point.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Art is what the the art world says it is.
    Sorry Pinno, could not read the words in different colours - hurt my head. So may have missed your point.

    The point is, there wasn't one.

    Then you'll love this:

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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!

    There has been all sorts of 'happenings' to me :roll:
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!

    There has been all sorts of 'happenings' to me :roll:
    That’s Galloway for ye...
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    edited October 2018
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!

    There has been all sorts of 'happenings' to me :roll:
    That’s Galloway for ye...

    I have been around a bit. In fact the fewest 'happenings' have happened in Galloway.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!

    There has been all sorts of 'happenings' to me :roll:
    That’s Galloway for ye...

    I have been around a bit. In fact the fewest 'happenings' have happened elsewhere.
    Ayrshire? Not wanting to flog a dead horse but one of the most amazing and strangest places I have ever been is Ayrshire.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    edited October 2018
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Moving colours is alright. Like a”happening “
    You would remember them, right!

    There has been all sorts of 'happenings' to me :roll:
    That’s Galloway for ye...

    I have been around a bit. In fact the fewest 'happenings' have happened in Galloway.
    Ayrshire? Not wanting to flog a dead horse but one of the most amazing and strangest places I have ever been is Ayrshire.

    Eeeek. I am not keen on Ayrshire.

    Sweden, parts of England, Wales, Kenya, France, Spain, Nardern Eyrlan, Sudden Oirland...
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