14 October, 2008

This is why I Hate Banksy


He is a pretentious boring officeworker rich boy who thinks he has some right make any kind of social comment, when his art is tired, uninspired and pretty much just a plea for attention and fame. Banksy is part of the system he is so arrogantly critiscising. If this dude was still on the street, and doing work that was more than a gimmick, maybe he'd have some credibility, but he's getting his work sold in auctions for millions, and getting paid to graffiti stuff now so, shut up sellout.

Bansky is not only a part of the "modern art" scene, he is also ruining the credibility of whats left of street art now, and the popularity of his work just propels us further down the spiral of "art for fame" where kids only make paste ups in the hope of doing a collab with nike someday.

Go die, banksy, or at least say something positive. Seriously the creative people of the world arent sitting around spouting wisdom about what's wrong with art or music or culture, there are out there doing shit, and they arent getting paid millions to do it.

17 comments:

Errol Charles Hoffman said...

I really really like what has been said here. I think Banksy has made such a great point about how advertising has attracted so many brilliant creative minds to Graphic Design/Web Design. After watching the Art:21 series it can be a little frustrating seeing such enormous amounts of time, money, effort and gallery space go to people who really don't have anything to tell other than that they like comics, toys, were raised in an interesting household etc. and had some of these minds been channeled toward this sort of creativity more important messages might be conveyed. He doesn't really mention that the lines between the design/advertising school of thought and the more fine arts approach are blurring and that many important messages are being told through certain advertising campaigns. Maybe he's looking in the wrong place for what he wants to see.

Anonymous said...

BANKSY IS A AMAZING ARTIST NO ONE SAYS OTHER, UNLESS THEY ARE JEALOUS (you) OF HIS ART!

Anonymous said...

BANKSY IS A AMAZING ARTIST NO ONE SAYS OTHER, UNLESS THEY ARE JEALOUS (you) OF HIS ART! PS: HE IS STILL ON THE STREET!!!!!!! U THOUGHT THAT?! (WOW!) that is sad.....

Anonymous said...

BANKSY MIGHT BE STRANGE IN ART BUT HES CRAZY AWESOME ALSO HE MIGHT MAKE STUFF ILLEGAL BUT I THINK ITS COOL(UNLIKE YOU)HES JUST AMAZING AS A GRAFFITI ARTIST

Meridian said...

banksy is just a lazy copy cat. anyone heard of SEEN? he's been doing the exact same stuff as banksy (but better) since the SEVENTIES!!

Anonymous said...

Why don't you say something positive.

Anonymous said...

I loveeeeeee bANKKKSSSSS, i iz doing a essay on hisss, i look up him. I THINK I WANT TO MARRYYY HIMMMMMM

Anonymous said...

BARBABBEELLLLL BAARRRRBEELLLLL, i love Banks. Your bere out of order to dis talet bro....U mad???????? he HAS A BIG FINGERRRR

Unknown said...

Whatever all other person think about it but whenever we see this street work we have to say Wow what a cool stuff, what do you think..

yourwallart

Anonymous said...

Huh! Look sorry, he's not in the league is he? Try da Vinci? Rembrandt? Warhol? Art and illusion done to death and a basically v. average technique, the twitter lite version of art. I prefer the true graffiti from those left with no other voice, like "We teach all hearts to break" in Fitzroy, Melbourne. This guy's the trendoid void of the PC shallow end, and Shakespeare in breadth and depth, he ain't. Sooooo over it.. totally over it. Go away and stop cluttering our landscape - you've had your day.

Anonymous said...

eckhart tolle is a paedophile. banksy was abused by tolle as a child & began graffiti as a method of empowerment.

Anonymous said...

Banksy is so unintelligent, and people that like his art work are even less intelligent, which is unfortunately the vast majority of people!

Anonymous said...

gareth eldridge, cheltenham, sexual assault

banksy, bristol, defacing public property

Anonymous said...

I know this may be a really late response, but I agree. To me, all Banksy's art seems to be is childish - Hidden behind anonymity, he heavily critizes a society which he is part of. Honestly, the only way I could describe his art would just be the words 'childish' and 'pretentious'. Don't get me wrong, he is a good artist, but he is using it in a way that is wrong. Some of his art actually is vandalism, which to me, kind of makes it lose it's meaning - ''Oh God, the government is so corrupt and bad! Let me show it to people by vandalizing this wall!''. I get that he wants to get a point across, but everyone knows by now that people already know the government isn't entirely fair, and by now he just seems like some 12 year old thinking he can ''free the world'' (or something) through vandalism. I agree with John Young, Banksy is unintelligent, and the people who like his artwork are even less intelligent (I think the anonymous person who, in caps, commented that the only people who don't like Banksy's artwork are those who are jealous of him proves the point there).

Unknown said...

"BARBABBEELLLLL BAARRRRBEELLLLL, i love Banks. Your bere out of order to dis talet bro....U mad???????? he HAS A BIG FINGERRRR" That's what we re dealing with here! haha I think we might be in the wrong place for an intellectual critique. Apparently Banksy has a big finger!! WTF!!?? Have you seen Banksy latest endeavour? Although not that his work has developped in the slightest for the past 20 years, its still "Im anti establishment and Ive read a newspaper!" Why not make some more shallow obvious art work about it? The thing about the amusement park is that you know it would be as deflating and drab as the experience is satirising! I guess its just Pop Art in reality, Pop Art like Pop music and Pop culture, shallow and quirky, to be easily consumed by the devolved imbecilic masses!

Unknown said...

Oh haha Im the same person as John Young btw!

Anonymous said...

Anyone that likes Banksy knows nothing about Graffiti, and only does so for the sake of identifying as someone who likes Graf. He is trendy tasteless garbage.