Banksy
 

What is your opinion of him?

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I love pretty much all his work I have seen images of.

He is an amazing artist. I'm tiring now of all this anonymity thing though. OK most of the stuff he does would get him locked up but anyone with half a brain could find him in seconds in reality

I like street art, sometimes it helps to make the wall more enjoyable to walk past, but I don't like graffiti like the stuff I see on the way to work 'this is just to distract you - well it worked you *****!' :bored:

I'm half watching a documentory about him on C4+1 called Exit Through The Gift Shop. It's interesting. Might be on C4OD later perhaps

Oh and my OP is a link about him btw. Not just underlined

From them images I like his work! I always think this kinda stuff is art rather than crime.

banksy killed king robbo

I want to know where he has stashed the rest of the £1 million in £10 notes with princess diana on.
Ive seen exit through the gift shop a few times and on first viewing its such an odd sequence of events that i thought it had to be scripted but it really isnt.

The way banksy turns the theme of the documentary back on thierry guetta (mr brainwash) is genius in its self.

Im a big fan of banksy his work is amazing.

Oh the notes!! I can't believe some people took them! :joker:

Mr Brainwash was an odd one. I need to watch this properly at some point

Its well worth a proper watch banksy told Mr brainwash to have a go at doing a bit of art and went on his way next he heard was that Mr Brainwash had re-mortgaged his family home and spent all his life savings over quarter of a million dollars on opening a massive art studio and a team of staff :joker:

Didn't he make a fortune though? I kept catching bits but not all

Mr Brainwash is amazing he designed the entire Celebration artwork.

http://www.imusicdaily.com/wp-conten...elebration.jpg

Yes he made a million dollars in the first 8 days of his first exhibition and he is really good at what he does its just really weird how he ended up doing it. he got the best graffiti artists in the world to tell everyone in the artworld that he was a genius and they just accepted it and started paying big money for his work.

That is cool.

A French Art Bloke claims Banksy is using his drawings.

he is rubbish and city types love to think they love him

lol

10:30PM - 11:35PM Ch4 tonight Sunday 14/8/11

Graffiti Wars

Rivairy between Banksy and King Robbo

London 2009.

Well spotted i shall be watching.

Never even heard of a King Robbo

I'll be watching Graffiti Wars too

King Robbos work is just a mess the same rubbish you see daubed on buildings anywhere :conf2: :conf2:

No, it doesn't exactly stick out.

Laughed at Banksy's work over his last remaining piece :joker:

The lengths they go to! It's crazy!

I saw an article recently that showed that he just copied the work that a french street artist was doing. Made me lose a lot of respect for him. I did enjoy the documentary movie he made though "exit through the gift shop"

But now that i know he stole his style and ideas from another artist especially a FRENCH artist, i think he's a poseur.

Lol sneaking around in a canoe in the middle of the night risking serious jail time is nuts.

It just showed the french guy on this documentary and he was the person to come up with the idea of using stencils instead of free drawing and banksy acknowledges him as an influence and admires him he doesnt copy his work as it were but he admits he is influenced by him.

The doc I'm watching now says he allegedly stole his style. I'm not convinced he has

That stencil guy keeps missing out the "W"

I could be as good as Robbo if I snorted a load of paint and sneezed on some canvas

:joker: I dont like him the he is all bitter about banksy getting all the attention.
The W guy is odd he was moaning about stencils and he uses them every time.

Yeah, I found that weird too! Sat there making stencils as he spoke about it being cheating! :conf:

The Robbo guy is really bitter

He is so boring, but i hated my Art teacher soo much

:joker::joker::joker:

OMG :shocked:

Well that put a downer on it im just trying to find out how he is now and what happened.

Yeah I was kinda gobsmacked. I'm guessing a Banksy fan :( Oh, so stupid all this...

This is the only thing i can find.

This statement has been released by 'The King Robbo Trust'

As rumour, speculation and public comments regarding King Robbo circulate throughout the Art World and Graffiti grapevine, we would like to set the record straight by offering the following statement ;

On April 2nd 2011 King Robbo sustained a serious life threatening head injury just 5 days prior to his current exhibition, 'Team Robbo - The Sell Out Tour' at the Signal Gallery, Shoreditch, London.

As a result he has not been available for comment or interviews.
He was also unable to show all of his intended new works at the current exhibition.

He is now out of the intensive care unit and making small but steady progress.

This has been an extremely difficult time for his family and close friends and we would like their privacy to be respected in light of the current situation.
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:/

Cheers Bobnot. It's certainly intriguing

Hang on, when did this happen? I've just seen an article published in April this year about Robbo being back

If it was this article:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...y-2270575.html
It happened 3 weeks before that and they dont even mention it in the article. Someone in the comments section is wondering why.

A statement on here:
http://londonstreetartdesign.blogspo...-thoughts.html
Makes it sound like he was still in a coma on may 7th so he must have been pretty messed up.