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Loving the new Banksy’s

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Whitewavemark2 Sun 11-Aug-24 08:32:04

Apparently it is to cheer everyone up after all the miserable world events.

I love them all, the cat was so well done I thought, but I love the pelicans stealing the fish shops fish😄

Hope there is more to come

Wyllow3 Tue 13-Aug-24 13:13:59

Chocolatelovinggran

I think that the goal of Banksy's work is to make you think. It's not about the quality of the product.

Quality is in the concept as well as the execution. He's a very skilled artist but choses to work in a variety of ways.

Wyllow3 Tue 13-Aug-24 13:14:42

(not criticising CLG, just adding a thought)

Chocolatelovinggran Tue 13-Aug-24 13:15:32

Quite right, Wyllow!

Wyllow3 Tue 13-Aug-24 13:31:04

🙂 I'll have to stop looking them up but was tempted to post this last one - "political" in the best way.

Dinahmo Tue 13-Aug-24 13:33:54

NanaTuesday

I believe he was using a scaffold type vehicle, there was a photo of this at one of the sites of a new Banksy last week .

It's called a cherry picker.

Chocolatelovinggran Tue 13-Aug-24 13:35:29

Our local one referred to domestic violence.
The Banksy depicted a woman with a black eye and missing teeth putting the body of someone (?) into a freezer.

Dinahmo Tue 13-Aug-24 13:39:26

Chestnut The works you have shown would not have been made overnight, in darkness. Those artists would have had time to make and perfect their images.

Dinahmo Tue 13-Aug-24 13:42:03

The latest Banksy is on a shutter at London Zoo. It depicts a gorilla appearing to roll up the shutter to let other animals out.

Wyllow3 Tue 13-Aug-24 13:51:35

I hope they let it stay awhile.

Bridie22 Tue 13-Aug-24 14:31:54

They are fabulous, love the zoo one today.