Banksy Artist Profile

 Today for T-shaped literacy I had to read an article and create an artist profile about Banksy. It was a little hard to read because the article was 3 pages long. 
To be BTB I could have spent more time making it.

Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous street artist that has been around for 47 years. He was spraying walls in Bristol, England, in the 1990’s. Art has been auctioned for 1,000’s of dollars in America. Today he makes art in cities from Vienna to San Francisco to Paris and many more countries and cities. He has moved from graffiti on walls to canvas art. He paints artworks with hidden messages telling us to save the world, and yet we still call his works “Graffiti”. He has been arrested many times but has never been caught by the police.

One of his most famous works is “Girl with balloon”. It depicts a young girl who is reaching for a red balloon. The meaning of the artwork is a loss of innocence or love, as the red balloon is love and the balloon has slipped out of her hands.

Many people think that Banksy's real name is Robin Gunningham, born in Yate 19 km from bristol. Many of Gunningham’s associates and former schoolmates thought that it was him, and Gunningham changed his last name to Banks. 

He brings messages and colour to grey cities and towns. He is not a graffitist, he is an artist.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”.