The first time I saw Banksy's work in my middle school art textbook, I loved it!

Elza 2022-03-23 09:02:28


it's the name of my best friend, he killed himself when we were 16, I just do it to comemorate his life. This sentence is a soy sauce in this film, but it is the point that touched me the most. In my opinion, the purpose of creation is to have fun and commemorate. And whether creation will become art, when you actually create, I don’t think you have time to think about it (of course, whether it will be sought after by others is not even considered). Creation is the externalization of private emotions, it is to fill in the bright colors of life, just like when we watch Banksy's works, we always smile and find it very interesting and relaxed; creation is to capture those beautiful times, passing and coming Arriving, constantly rolling in my head to come out, thoughts.
One of the interesting things about watching this movie is that you thought it would be a documentary about graffiti (in fact, it is), but it has its own inner emotions, which is very Banksy's work, expressing itself through imagery ideas, but do not put themselves in the light. This is a "venting" type of work, the things to be expressed are very strong, but the way of expression is almost "euphemistic".
But we all got Banksy points anyway. There is a fundamental difference between doing something that you find interesting and doing something that makes others feel bad.
Pop art was never a bad word to me until I saw Thierry's show in LA It was then I found the line between what looks cool but has no meaning and a piece that maybe continues a deeper conversation. It's helped me not to make those mistakes in my own work, the cheap shots, ever again.
Finally, a lot of Banksy's works have a strong humanistic color, which is his inner spirit that distinguishes him from many other trash. This is a point that deserves our attention at this time and place when "Hode Virtue" has attracted heated discussions.

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Exit Through the Gift Shop quotes

  • Lazarides, Steve: I think the joke is on... I don't know who the joke's on - really. I don't even know if there is a joke.

  • Thierry Guetta: [talking about meeting Banksy for the first time] It was magic that this person let me film, you know? I felt like I had the piece that will finish the puzzle. It was like getting something in the daylight that... what you see in the nightlight. He was even more than I expected; he was, like, just incredible; he was cool, he was... he was human, he was... he was... he was... he is, you know, he's really like a... what he represents, you know? He's really like a... I think he's really like a... I really liked him!