Page 6 | Banksy graffitting all over the place should not be celebrated

Toddlerteaplease · 13/08/2024 23:13

There was one very close to me. Didn't think k it was even good art!

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:13

If your thread title more closely matched the contents of your OP, you wouldn't be getting this much grief @bitesthedust

Toddlerteaplease · 13/08/2024 23:12

Couldn't agree more. He's a vandal.

Notmushroomforthis · 13/08/2024 23:11

I'm bored of Banksy if I'm honest. It's the same tired shit and the hype is boring now.

HavingABitOfAMare · 13/08/2024 23:11

bitesthedust · 13/08/2024 22:55

Appreciating the arts does not mean ALL and EVERY piece of art

I used to like him at the start, but the works he produced this summer are imo uninspiring to say the least (not that I could do what he does of course)

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So you liked him 'graffitiing all over the place' to begin with?

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:10

That is precisely what the OP said!! Its street art not real art - no extrapolation or rhetoric needed. Please do formulate a better argument and explain what on earth a fig lead is as it sounds as nonsensical as your wildly inaccurate and rather poorly formulated post.

Oh do stop being silly.

OP was being specific, and her point was about the protection of street. You generalised extravagantly.

You're not seriously claiming you can't decipher a typo as glaring as that are you? Not even in context?

DiscoBeat · 13/08/2024 23:10

I love it. Go police elsewhere 😁

XenoBitch · 13/08/2024 23:08

HansHolbein · 13/08/2024 23:06

This made me laugh out loud and I really needed it today. What about nonce? I haven’t seen that thrown about in a while!

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Maybe I need to make my own graffiti bingo card, and have nonce on it 😅

Messen · 13/08/2024 23:08

Cocking! Bloody autocorrect

Marinade · 13/08/2024 23:08

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:05

Please do illuminate. Wild extrapolation? What have I extrapolated? Do you understand the meaning of this word? It appears not.

And obnoxious too. Delightful.

You raised the possibility that OP was

"somebody who does not embrace the arts and considers it to be graffiti because it is street art displayed on walls?"

And furthermore,

"If this is the case then it is an ignorant point of view."

Which are wild extrapolations to derive from what OP said, even though you've phrased them as a question.

I don't think the rhetorical device is the fig lead you think it is.

That is precisely what the OP said!! Its street art not real art - no extrapolation or rhetoric needed. Please do formulate a better argument and explain what on earth a fig lead is as it sounds as nonsensical as your wildly inaccurate and rather poorly formulated post.

Messen · 13/08/2024 23:07

I like graffiti as long as it’s colourful. Tagging can get in the bin as that is just the equivalent of a dog locking its leg to mark its territory

Purplebunnie · 13/08/2024 23:07

Didn't like Banksy to start off with but I have grown to like him more and more. I think the recent ones are brilliant

I wanted to smack the hoodie who put their graffiti tag on one though. 🤔

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:06

bitesthedust · 13/08/2024 22:48

That is it really

If it was treated as a piece of street art, ok then, but now the policy and local authorities are protecting it, has it gone a bit too far?

If local authority money is now being used to guard unsolicited street art, then I agree that's a bit over the top.

HansHolbein · 13/08/2024 23:06

XenoBitch · 13/08/2024 23:04

You will love where I live then. I like seeing the dodgy graffiti.
Near me, someone has sprayed "baby killer" on someone's garden wall. Another one is "grass". I have seen a few " pedo" ones.
One of my faves is one that says "stay away".
I want to know the background to all of them.

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This made me laugh out loud and I really needed it today. What about nonce? I haven’t seen that thrown about in a while!

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:05

Please do illuminate. Wild extrapolation? What have I extrapolated? Do you understand the meaning of this word? It appears not.

And obnoxious too. Delightful.

You raised the possibility that OP was

"somebody who does not embrace the arts and considers it to be graffiti because it is street art displayed on walls?"

And furthermore,

"If this is the case then it is an ignorant point of view."

Which are wild extrapolations to derive from what OP said, even though you've phrased them as a question.

I don't think the rhetorical device is the fig lead you think it is.

zzplea · 13/08/2024 23:05

I feel sorry for the owners of the surfaces he paints on. They then have the burden of "protecting" the work to avoid someone damaging their property to steal it. In that respect he's a bloody nuisance.

I think it hilarious when the smaller ones have been stolen so quickly (the road sign and the satellite dish).

HiCandles · 13/08/2024 23:04

I agree. I've never understood why his graffiti is celebrated. If he vandalised my property without permission I would be furious, same as I would be if a teen oik did.

XenoBitch · 13/08/2024 23:04

MissPeachyKeen · 13/08/2024 23:01

I quite like graffiti

You will love where I live then. I like seeing the dodgy graffiti.
Near me, someone has sprayed "baby killer" on someone's garden wall. Another one is "grass". I have seen a few " pedo" ones.
One of my faves is one that says "stay away".
I want to know the background to all of them.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 13/08/2024 23:04

I'm not convinced that the Zoo one is the fantastic honour the bloke they wheeled out to enthuse over it was saying.

It looks rather like it could be a criticism of zoos and that, like the gorilla that isn't stuck in a concrete pen or the highly intelligent seals, the birds and other animals also need to be freed.

But that's where it becomes Art - where you have to think about the meaning.

(Still think he's the posh boy done good compared to the other stencil artists that didn't have the same hype, but it's Art, nonetheless).

stayathomer · 13/08/2024 23:03

I don’t know- they said on the radio the other day it was on a house- that can’t be true that he’d do it on someone’s house, could it? If he did it on street walls I’m fine with it!!

custardlover · 13/08/2024 23:02

It delights me.

MissPeachyKeen · 13/08/2024 23:01

I quite like graffiti

Marinade · 13/08/2024 23:01

LiterallyOnFire · 13/08/2024 23:00

That's a really impressive example of wild extrapolation.

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Please do illuminate. Wild extrapolation? What have I extrapolated? Do you understand the meaning of this word? It appears not.

ThisHangryPinkBalonz · 13/08/2024 23:01

What is his obsession with London zoo at the minute?

I have found some of his previous work really interesting with a good message but all the animal artwork is meh.

XenoBitch · 13/08/2024 23:00

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Or not make your bed. An unmade bed was considered art.