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    • 10 Amazing Facts About Banksy

    Banksy, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the art world, has turned the art market upside down. Will Ellsworth-Jones reveals 10 things about him 

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    1. Banksy didn’t go to art school but attended the then fee-paying Bristol Cathedral School.

    He got an E in GCSE art before going on to a sixth form college, where he studied art. After that he learned his trade on the streets.

    2. He first painted under the name Robin Banx. As he experimented with styles of painting this evolved into Banksy, which had less of the gangster ‘robbing banks’ ring to it and was more memorable and easier to write.

    Banksy biography facts on samuel jackson Through his art, Banksy addresses complex socio-political issues and prompts viewers to engage with challenging topics. Unveiling 13 lesser-known details about Banksy offers a deeper understanding of the complexities behind his creations. Just above the boys, the artist has created the illusion of a broken section of the grey wall on which the mural was created. The location was kept secret while the works were completed, and only then revealed to the public.

    3. The artist started painting and met other graffiti artists at Barton Hill Youth Club in Bristol, where the hope was that, by painting at the club, they would be discouraged from doing so in the city. It did not have the desired effect. Banksy’s first show, with other artists, was in a laundromat near the youth club.

    4. Banksy is called a graffiti artist but he discovered stencils early on.

    Banksy biography facts on samuel v Banksy: Urban Art in a Material World. The work also carries the message idea that peace comes with active hard work. His signature stencil technique, adopted in the early s, became a game-changer. A prototypical street artist, Banksy justified his vandalism of public space, and his use of the city as canvas, as being a direct response to what he called "Brandalism," or, "any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not

    He told a friend: ‘As soon as I cut my first stencil I could feel the power there. The ruthlessness and the efficiency of it is perfect.’

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    5. Pure graffiti artists see anyone using stencils as a sell-out, abandoning their complicated hieroglyphic world. A ‘war’ between Banksy and London artist Robbo saw them painting over each other’s work.

    Banksy biography facts on samuel Unwelcome Intervention Is it one person or a collective? In this iconic image, two seemingly male police officers in full, typical British uniforms are depicted kissing, in what appears to be a loving embrace. In December , Banksy marked the end of the United Nations Climate Change Conference by painting four murals on global warming.

    Robbo died in , but his followers still paint over Banksy’s work when they can.

    6. Blek le Rat, a French stencil artist, was one of Banksy’s earliest influences. Like Banksy he enjoyed painting rats, and his style can be seen in much of Banksy’s early work.

    7. In the early days live animals were a key part of Banksy’s exhibitions.

    There were pigs sprayed in (non-toxic) blue and white, and a sheep and a cow in one show.

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    • Some rats ran around another gallery and a painted elephant featured in his Los Angeles exhibition, denoting messages on poverty and the fact that billion people in the world had no access to water (‘there’s an elephant in the room’).

    8. Banksy’s major projects have included setting up The Walled Off Hotel next to the Israeli wall in Bethlehem, and turning an old lido in Weston-super-Mare into a massive art show, Dismaland.

    He is also a film-maker; his film Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary about Banksy creating a successful street artist, Mr Brainwash, who is nominated for an Academy Award.

    9. In , when his painting Girl with Balloon half shredded as the hammer came down on it at £1m at Sotheby’s, Banksy implied that the shredding mechanism had failed.

    It is now considered more likely that the shredder stopped exactly where he planned, leaving enough painting to be sold again, this time for £18m, in October

    Banksy has only been caught once, in New York in the late s, when he was arrested while spraying a billboard on the roof of an apartment building.

    Banksy biography facts on samuel l He then placed the doll below the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, where it remained for 90 minutes before the ride was shut down and the figure removed. Growing up in Bristol, Banksy immersed himself in the active graffiti art scene of the city. Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home. His art is a conversation starter, a spark that ignites critical thinking and discourse.

    He spent 40 hours in a cell and was given community service and a fine. Today police would ask for his autograph.

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    Banksy: the man behind the wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones, published by Frances Lincoln

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    This feature first appeared in the Spring  edition of The Arts Society Magazine, available exclusively to Members and Supporters