I have to write about a picture, but I prefer to write about an street artist called Banksy, who makes his art in the public space producing a lot of images in the city every day. Nobody knows excatly who Banksy is, because he is an anonimous grafitti artist. The only thing we know, it's that he is english, because his work has been known in the stretts of english cities.He gives to his art a lot of political content, like anti-capitalism, anarchism, exsistencialsm or anti-imperialism and how his way of producing art is sometimes illegal, he doesn't say his real identity.
The techinque more used by Banksy, is the stencil, that consists in a thin sheet of material that you cut in the form of letters and images applying pigment trough the cut-holes in the material. I really like this technique because the work is done just once and then you can reproduce the image all the times that you want without taking a lot of time or doing a big work. In his stencils, Banksy shows a part of the reality in a very creative way, giving social and political messages with an irreverent dark humour, not only in the streets, because Banksy also puts his works in the museums in a clandestine way, he has had exhibitions and he has make films too, all this from the anonymity and without beeing discovered his formal identity.I really like the art of Banksy, but not only in an aesthetic sense, because I think that the ideas that he represents by his work are very important for our society, because he is able to show our problems in a very atttractive way so everyone see it.
