Banksy art or a graffiti mess

[kopchoir]

Just been looking at the news and i see banksy has a art exhibition in bristol that was top secret what are people views on his pictures in general
Personally i quite like it but then i dont live in bristol and dont have it painted on the side of my house either his work also tends to fetch a lot of cash
anyone from bristol that has an opinion on what its like in bristol and how do the people of bristol view it.

Kop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...re/8094839.stm

[Iccz]

You only have to look at the state of some of the Turner Prize winners to see that "art" isn't what it used to be...

I think it's better to look at than most graffiti or "tagging" that you see about, in places like Holland etc you get some amazing graffiti artists that make some really good pieces and in some places are encouraged to do so. And some of them are a lot better than the stuff Banksy does - the thing with him is all the press / hype, fair play to him.

I think my vote would fall between the 2 choices somewhere, while it's not art, it's not a graffiti mess - not your average piece of graffiti mess anyways.

[signs]

Brilliant ...Art

[Orson]

Some of his paintings & 'graffiti' I'd call art, and I like.

But fish fingers in a goldfish bowl, chicken nuggets pecking in a chicken coop, burnt out ice cream vans... far too obvious & patronising, and I wouldn't give it shelf space.

[daveaka]

Fantastic, I would love some of Banksy's art on my wall.

[bazonix]

absolutely amazing.... iv bought a few for friends etc... amazing:

Banksy Graffiti pictures, London. Stencil Graffiti images by Banksy

[pandemic]

Most of his stuff is brilliant.

[Codehead]

Love the picture of the House of Commons.

[Zeromajor]

Originally Posted by Iccz

You only have to look at the state of some of the Turner Prize winners to see that "art" isn't what it used to be..

I pictured you saying that in a leather recliner thumbing through a coffeetable book on masters

I agree that a lot of it these days is either hyped nonsense or farmed artschool pretension but the beauty of art is it's subjective nature. The fact you're discussing the validity of banky's work, makes it art.

Yadda yadda

[eric pisch]

Originally Posted by Codehead

Love the picture of the House of Commons.

oh yes, got that one right at the right time didn't he

i love it

[oakie]

Load of old rubbish for the metropolitan middle classes and media lovies to gush over.

Round here some one spray painted (now pressure washed off by the council) a 7 foot tall gold penis and testicles, detailed with multicoloured veins and spermlets - now that is art!

[eric pisch]

Originally Posted by oakie

Load of old rubbish for the metropolitan middle classes and media lovies to gush over.

Round here some one spray painted (now pressure washed off by the council) a 7 foot tall gold penis and testicles, detailed with multicoloured veins and spermlets - now that is art!

was it meant to be alan sugar?

[dazza1011]

all graffitti is art in my eyes, ( with the execption of tagging which looks crap )

one of my favourites is Kid Acne a local artist also Rolf Harris did one in Sheffield with 808 State
see below

[ps3mad]

Vandal id throw away the key.Cant stand this so called art.

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by ps3mad

Vandal id throw away the key.Cant stand this so called art.

Well, Ya Boo Sucks to YOU, Fritzie!