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Banksy...Geurillas In The Midst...!!!
Kallisti, Damn'd Sod..!!! Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:37 pm
Banksy...Geurillas In The Midst...!!!
"I STARTED painting graffiti when I was about 14 or so, and people always ask, yer know, what makes you do it?
"But the question was always really, why would you not do it?"
These are the words of one of the world's most famous artists, and most elusive characters.
Bristol-born Banksy is hugely popular worldwide, his guerilla-style graffiti his calling card.
Yet for 18 years he has succeeded where The Stig failed - and kept his identity totally secret.
Who is he? That's the question on the lips of everyone from trendy youngsters to the snobbish art world elite.
For the first time ever, the street artist has spoken at length about his amazing rise from a spray-can-toting youth, to someone whose work sells for £1million a time to Hollywood's A-listers.
And The Sun is the first to bring you the interview.
His openness coincides with the DVD release of his film Exit Through The Gift Shop on Monday.
Explaining where it all began, Banksy says: "You're 14, 15. It's a big world out there, you wanna make your mark, and no one listens to a word you say.
Whereas, yer know, one night, one spray can, all of a sudden people notice you."
Banksy was plugged into the trendy street scene, and gives a nod to fellow Bristolian, 3D from dance music outfit Massive Attack.
"There was always a lot of graffiti in my home town growing up, urmm, I think 3D from Massive Attack had brought it back with him off tour in America and he'd been painting all over the city.
"I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
I always used to get things too close together or too far apart and it used to take me ages.
"So I had to come up with a way of making it quicker, otherwise I was gonna get nicked."
The works that catapulted Banksy into the spotlight almost all involved black and white stencil drawings, such as the iconic image of two policemen snogging.
"I mean they're very efficient, stencils.
You get to put something up in very little time and it's hard to mess it up.
"When I moved to London I just carried on painting.
I never saw that there was anything bad in it.
"You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
"And I always felt that it was all right to answer back a little bit, I suppose.
That the city shouldn't just be a one-way conversation "I didn't see why you'd settle for just walls.
So I started vandalising statues and that led to vandalising parks.
It just kept going really.
"So I'd come up with this idea of painting graffiti over oil paintings instead of on walls.
And I was completely convinced it was a genius idea nobody had had before."
Banksy began producing his own versions of classic paintings, his most famous being Monet's Water Lily Pond with discarded shopping trolleys under the bridge.
In 2003 he snuck into London's Tate Britain gallery and added one of his creations.
He explained: "I thought, 'How do I stop people from stealing this idea?'
And I reckoned the best thing to do was to get it hanging up in the Tate with my name next to it....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3124787/Banksy-in-his-own-words.html
Good Stuff...Good Stuff...
"I STARTED painting graffiti when I was about 14 or so, and people always ask, yer know, what makes you do it?
"But the question was always really, why would you not do it?"
These are the words of one of the world's most famous artists, and most elusive characters.
Bristol-born Banksy is hugely popular worldwide, his guerilla-style graffiti his calling card.
Yet for 18 years he has succeeded where The Stig failed - and kept his identity totally secret.
Who is he? That's the question on the lips of everyone from trendy youngsters to the snobbish art world elite.
For the first time ever, the street artist has spoken at length about his amazing rise from a spray-can-toting youth, to someone whose work sells for £1million a time to Hollywood's A-listers.
And The Sun is the first to bring you the interview.
His openness coincides with the DVD release of his film Exit Through The Gift Shop on Monday.
Explaining where it all began, Banksy says: "You're 14, 15. It's a big world out there, you wanna make your mark, and no one listens to a word you say.
Whereas, yer know, one night, one spray can, all of a sudden people notice you."
Banksy was plugged into the trendy street scene, and gives a nod to fellow Bristolian, 3D from dance music outfit Massive Attack.
"There was always a lot of graffiti in my home town growing up, urmm, I think 3D from Massive Attack had brought it back with him off tour in America and he'd been painting all over the city.
"I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
I always used to get things too close together or too far apart and it used to take me ages.
"So I had to come up with a way of making it quicker, otherwise I was gonna get nicked."
The works that catapulted Banksy into the spotlight almost all involved black and white stencil drawings, such as the iconic image of two policemen snogging.
"I mean they're very efficient, stencils.
You get to put something up in very little time and it's hard to mess it up.
"When I moved to London I just carried on painting.
I never saw that there was anything bad in it.
"You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
"And I always felt that it was all right to answer back a little bit, I suppose.
That the city shouldn't just be a one-way conversation "I didn't see why you'd settle for just walls.
So I started vandalising statues and that led to vandalising parks.
It just kept going really.
"So I'd come up with this idea of painting graffiti over oil paintings instead of on walls.
And I was completely convinced it was a genius idea nobody had had before."
Banksy began producing his own versions of classic paintings, his most famous being Monet's Water Lily Pond with discarded shopping trolleys under the bridge.
In 2003 he snuck into London's Tate Britain gallery and added one of his creations.
He explained: "I thought, 'How do I stop people from stealing this idea?'
And I reckoned the best thing to do was to get it hanging up in the Tate with my name next to it....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3124787/Banksy-in-his-own-words.html
Good Stuff...Good Stuff...
Kallisti, Damn'd Sod..!!!- Posts : 666
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Re: Banksy...Geurillas In The Midst...!!!
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