Saturday, February 7, 2009

Graffiti is a well known "art" form. This art is not a M.C. Esher or Picasso, but a revoluntionary type of art that is satirical, and insiparing. Banksy is a British graffiti artist that has rebelled against authority and caused graffiti-cal chaos on a global level. Initially started by a French graffiti artist, Blek le Rat, Banksy has stenciled his way into art critics, viewers, buyers, and sellers alike. View his art and read it in the manner people are told to read certain genres of literature: inbetween the lines. Banksy will pack more lines inbetween each line you read.

"THE FLOWER CHUCKER"
Say it with flowers. In spirit of the upcoming Valentines Day, this seems appropriate, however this is not how I'd like to recieve flowers. Banksy's stencil of a molotov cocktail switched with a bouquet of flowers is how war should be fought, but what are the flowers? Our generation has a plethora of art in every form, but what is the archive of the art we have created and seen-perhaps it is in a bouquet of flowers.
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2 comments:

  1. That's pretty funny that you related this to the upcoming Valentine's Day. The "what are the flowers?" question is really though provoking, but I don't have an answer.

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