Urban art: Banksy's anti-hero. author of the entry: Brainwashed Poet
who have some idea of \u200b\u200bwhat street art, graffiti or stencil Don Banksy known as an Englishman born in the mid Bistrol seventies. Is a veteran who is dedicated to stencil (stencil) and has become famous because the quality of his works (in design and message) which are already in several countries. Supposedly nobody knows his true identity which gives a fascinating antihero halo at various levels.
Banksy certainly is much more than a graffiti artist, his stencils always sharp social criticism or sarcastic have affinities with the anti-globalization and anarchist ideology, his style is called Gerrilla art. Example of his work are challenging its rats and monkeys with guns or dropping by parachute, or the Mona Lisa with a bazooka, or kissing the British police, or the guy holding police for writing on the wall "I fought against the system ... and I won ", or murals in the West Bank barrier protest.
But in addition to his work with the can, Banksy has made other "works" that take you to a level closer to the avant-garde that vandalism in public places: for example managed to introduce their works clandestinely, several major museums including the Museum of Natural History where he introduced a fake cave painting in which a man, drawn to the primitive style, walks with her cart of groceries (the work was time there without autoriadade visitors or notice it). Besides making sculptures like the one unveiled at an event, the sculpture represented
His last works are more conceptual, in a managed intrudicir a inflatable doll represents a Guantanamo detainee at Disneyland and stood in front of a roller coaster, on another occasion purchased 500 Paris Hilton records and altered by changing the face of a dog, writing messages in the booklet as "Every CD you weitere events buy puts me out of your league " even changed the disk and put another shot by a DJ friend in which the girl passes Hilton unineuronales saying their phrases like" That's hot "over and over again to the rhythm of electronic music. Once altered discs, Banksy surreptitiously put them back in stores. In addition to these actions Banksy has also had exhibitions idnviduales with guests, some wine and the whole show, as made famous in the U.S. where got a live elephant, painted the color of wallpaper paste on the wall symbolize poverty (huge and in front of us but it seems that no one sees).
However, there are few who qualify as "sold" having worked for MTV and Adidias, besides his works have been purchased by so revolutionary and counter people like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves or the very Christina Aguilera who paid the modest sum of 25,000 pounds
Banksy in the U.S..
and Disneyland 
dissent packaged for Christina Aguilera
pop transgression.
and video.
