Additional Street Art of the Day

Let the Banksy hating begin….

I don’t understand Banksy. Or rather, why he’s suddenly so fascinating. He’s just another graffiti artist. There’s not much special about him other than the fact that he’s desperate enough for attention that he makes everyone feel the need to give it to him. This is graffiti. I don’t care who it’s by. It’s only impressive when it’s weighed against its creator’s ego.

I know this guy’s a great artist and all, but going around causing damage to private property on a regular basis really does make you, in fact, a total asshole. It’s not like this shit is easier to clean up than crappy street graffiti.

Enough already- what are you his PR agent? hmmmm…

New TDW layout – new dick-ish commenters….

what happened to the cool kids?

@ DougieB
By “causing damage to private property” you mean “improving private property,” right? ‘Cause in case you haven’t noticed, the places Banksy sencils ain’t that pretty to begin with.

@Avolling
Wow. You have no art education whatsoever, do you?

Anyways…

For all the graffiti haters out there, graffiti is awesome because it takes art out of the galleries and puts it on the streets. It’s accessible. It’s in the real world. It’s subversive.

Banksy is cool because his work is pretty damn good aesthetically, and it’s clever, subversive and often thought-provoking. More so than most other street artists.

Dear Banksy,
Please stop defacing property with your “art”.
My state is already bankrupt enough without having to then go around repainting all of this.

I can absolutely confirm that Mallet Girl isn’t Banksy. She was actually created for a TV show… Don’t ask me how it got there though.

I am beginning to think you are Banksy…

If it was all in a gallery not much would be made of his work I suppose.

Also: That’s a sledgehammer, not a mallet.

Just do what most business who when they find a Banksy painting on their wall. Carefully remove it and sell it. The amount of money you’ll make will most likely be more than the cost of removal.

Sorry to say this, however, Banksy’s work is oversimplistic and vague, it’s overrated and appeals to largely the green-left who do not tolerate any genuine criticisms or opposition.

His art is vague?! You call that a critique?

Here’s to hoping you never see a Rothko…

“I don’t know art but I know that’s a crime.”

you don’t know me.

Property is theft!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogbytedesign/page2/
This is not Banksy!

Thank you tina.co I second your art conscious comment. Banksy is smart and a visual genius.

Yes, yes…girl with mallet isn’t Banksy’s work. But the dog is. Nice to see BOTH of them, and yes – they are art.

haha..you don’t know shit….you should check out his work…leagues beyond other artists…..you obviously suck at life, go back to your tv commercials, and sex and the city, get fat and drink starbucks you sheep

why the hell should someone feel the need to clean it up?

“my state”
you came here from fucking Iowa. you pansy, go watch tv for a while you fatso

i bet you pretend to know about wine too. haha lame-o

Personally, I like my paintings to be painterly. I think it is a shame that someone who demonstrates so little talent in painting is so famous and well compensated for it. Compare to Franz ackermann, alessandro papetti, and many other lesser knowns. That said, for grafitti art, I much prefer it to the typical “dog piss” marking of territory that constitutes most grafitti.

In the 1970s and 1980s graffiti artists decorated New York City. Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and others were standouts and became gallery stars. Climbing on the bandwagon was some grad school fool who got a government grant to do pointless, easy stenciling all over the East Village. Stenciling. Lazy and cowardly. On a grant. In grad school. If you’re stenciling you’re doing all the real work in the safety of your studio. There is no spontaneity in the actual execution of the piece, no danger. One cannot really call it graffiti in the true sense. This Banksy phenomenon is a brilliant p.r. stunt, but tedious everything else.

That’s neither a mallet nor a sledgehammer. It’s a roller paintbbrush Follow the girl’s gaze. Dur.

Wow…ignorant comment…you probably don’t understand all the fuss over the mona lisa either, do you?….Research before you comment on artists changing the world of art.

did you really just use the word, “painterly” jesus christ you’re a moron.