Although lots of people have tried to guess who he is, his identity has still not been revealed. Banksy first got noticed for spray-painting trains and walls in his home city of Bristol during the early s. Street art and graffiti can be considered criminal damage, so in the beginning it's thought the artist stayed anonymous to keep out of trouble. In the beginning his pieces were mainly in Bristol, but in the s his artworks started appearing all over the UK and other parts of the world.
Banksy chose to use stencils to create his pieces, probably because it's a faster way to paint. He was influenced in his early days by a French graffiti artist called Blek le Rat.
Blek le Rat is considered to be the father of stencil graffiti and people sometimes confuse the work of the two artists. Banksy doesn't only do street art, he's produced drawings, paintings and installation pieces. He even created his own theme park called Dismaland.
Banksy's work is known for delivering political messages. In December , he raised the issue of homelessness with a mural showing two reindeer that appear to be pulling a sleigh. A piece in Port Talbot he made a piece showing a boy catching what appears to be snowflakes but is in fact ash from a fire. This is thought to be about the problem of pollution. Banksy's work is very valuable and can go for thousands of pounds.
Lots of people who love what he does, and are willing to pay a lot for his work. This was because of the artwork that it had on the side. Banksy has often made clear that he doesn't like his work selling for so much money. We need to make it count. The Barton Hill district of Bristol in the s was a scary part of town. Very white—probably no more than three black families had somehow ended up there—working-class, run-down and unwelcoming to strangers.
So when Banksy, who came from a much leafier part of town, decided to go make his first foray there, he was nervous. He was trying out names at the time, sometimes signing himself Robin Banx, although this soon evolved into Banksy.
Around this time, he also settled on his distinctive stencil approach to graffiti. When he was 18, he once wrote, he was painting a train with a gang of mates when the British Transport Police showed up and everyone ran. As I lay there listening to the cops on the tracks, I realized I had to cut my painting time in half or give it up altogether. I was staring straight up at the stenciled plate on the bottom of the fuel tank when I realized I could just copy that style and make each letter three feet high.
I also like the political edge. All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. The people—and the apes and rats—he drew in these early days have a strange, primitive feel to them. My favorite is a piece that greets you when you enter the Pierced Up tattoo parlor in Bristol.
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