Banksy has been a little naughty

[Iputthescrewinthetuna]

I am very amused!
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/banksy-painting-girl-with-red-balloon-self-destructs-after-1m-sale-at-sothebys-11518809

It was probably a colour photocopy that was ok to shred for comedic effect (or should that be affect?)

Brilliant!!

The piece is supposed to represent hope, innocence. He, in my mind is showing that hope and innocence is going and going at a scary rate. A rate that even money can't slow down. Money isn't the answer to the worlds problems. That is the way I see it anyway

What a load of old wank

What a load of old wank

Well aren't you a delight!

It isn't wank to me. That is how I see it. You can see it how you wish to. Isn't that the beauty of it. It is personal!

Banksy is hardly thoughtful and sensitive art. Art for plebs.

Yet you still felt compelled to open thread, read and comment.
To me a pleb would be wasting time and effort on something you don't enjoy for no good reason.

That isn’t what the meaning is.

The painting in itself isn’t clever, symbolic art. Nor is shredding it. That doesn’t mean that people can’t take pleasure from it, but there is no deep sublime message in it. It is as others have said a publicity stunt.

Well the video showing two security chaps removing it from the wall show there were no wires connecting it to the electricity just a weirdly large frame.

Fake or not it still made me smile.

Robin is pleased this is being discussed.
He's always enjoyed a bit of debate.

Robin always seemed to have a sense of humour.

The buyer must be thrilled. The value must have at least doubled.

I totally agree with you. It could be a publicity stunt. However, that is how I feel when looking at it. Whether the artist meant to give the viewer a meaning or not, it is not wrong for that view to feel or see a meaning.

I am not arty in anyway. I try to draw a rabbit for my DD to colour in. No meaning in it except my DD begged me. My DP really loved that picture (it looked more like a dinosaur with big ears than a rabbit) tje reason why is he felt how much I wanted to please my daughter. He felt the picture was drawn with so much love!
To me, it was a crap scribble, to DD it was her favourite animal, to DP it shows my love for dd.

Yes, the above is waffle, a crap example, but my point is, the viewer takes what the viewer wants from any piece of art. I hope I have made my point make sense.

Banksy might have no meaning, but when I see his work I feel an emotion, an emotion I never get looking at one of the greats artwork.

Yeah. Me too, but possibility a different type of emotion

@TeaStory
“Do you know we also laugh at other “fake” and “scripted” stuff because it’s funny? Like sitcoms? And stand up? Or is only your type of humour allowed now?”

Are you saying Sotherby’s auctions are now scripted reality tv shows or some sort of perforce art piece, or are you saying you can’t tell the difference between real life and something staged? Because I’ve no idea what point you tried to make there.

Performance

Apparantly he was in the room. Have seen a photo where you can see the back and part of the side of someone’s head and their hair and glasses look very much like the bloke who is meant to be Banksy.

@NicoAndTheNiners, can you post the pic

Are you saying Sotherby’s auctions are now scripted reality tv shows or some sort of perforce art piece, or are you saying you can’t tell the difference between real life and something staged? Because I’ve no idea what point you tried to make there.

Someone else claimed it was “fake” and we had all “fallen for it”, implying the whole thing was scripted and Sotheby’s were in on it and that those of us who laughed were stupid. The point I was making is that, real or fake, it was funny.

I’m not fucking stupid and of course I know the difference between real life and staged. I can find both amusing, but according to some on here I am not allowed to.

Pic is in a daily mail story, not the main one but a bit further down on their home page.

Did the buyer know and was there another copy?

It made me snigger too.

Maybe the buyer was Banksy? Or a friend of his?

That video is hilarious. It was obviously a stunt that the auction house was in on. It would have been better had they not been, but it was a cute performance nevertheless.

Ooh that is interesting that the buyer could have been Banksy!

I'm not so sure about the pic. The hair line seems to far forwards.

I’m quite convinced by the picture. It’s at a funny angle I guess but from what I see the hair matches.