{"id":761,"date":"2013-08-22T23:13:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:49:35","slug":"street-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/street-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Street art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banksy<\/a> is one of the worlds most famous graffiti artists. He designs his graffiti\u2019s with a special stencil technique and spreads his ideas as a political activist almost like a communication guerilla. In doing so he is inspired by the French pochoir artist Blek le Rat<\/a> and the Adbusters<\/a>. By using public surfaces and walls as his canvas he increases his range of audience and reaches a lot of people.<\/p>\n

Banksy is not only illustrating provocative art pieces like \u201cCardinal Sin,\u201d a bust, which replaced a priest\u2019s face with a \u201cpixelated\u201d effect, as a statement on the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

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He also stages his art artistry almost like a art-action. In 2005 he created nine huge images on<\/a> the Israeli West Bank wall during a trip to the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

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But Banksy himself plays with his role as the radical artist, who is the outlaw on the street. Sometimes he even installs his own art pieces in museums himself (like Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Louvre, Paris)and provokes the usual kind of domesticated art forms in galleries<\/p>\n

After a few galleries and auctions sold Bansksy\u2019s works, the so called \u201cBanky effect\u201d was born. Max Foster coined to phrase to illustrate the growing popularity of street art.<\/p>\n

The mural art piece \u201cSlavework\u201d (created 2012, during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elisabeth II), showing a boy, working at a sewing machine, sewing Union Jacks into a bunting became really famous. It had been removed from the side of a Poundland store in Haringey, north of London. Soon later it appeared for sale in Fine Art Auctions Miami\u2019s catalogue. After protests and demonstrations of Harringey\u2019s inhabitants the Gallery rejected claims of theft. The local community, after fighting to get the street art piece back now won the argument. The mural was pulled from being sold at an auction in Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two Canadian authors Jospeh Heath and Andrew Potter in their book \u201cThe Rebel Sell \u2013 Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture<\/a>\u201d also engaged with the topic of capitalism, especially consumerism and consumption. They deal with anti-capitalist issues, political activism and other critical movements. In their eyes these movements of backlash cultures failed. These are parts of \u201cthe system\u201d and by acting in their structure (as provocative as they may seem) they are never a real threat for the society at all. Following an example of a capitalist shoe affair of Adbuster magazine the authors state that since the early 21st<\/sup> century the counterculture\u2019s governing ideas of rebelliousness have become the \u201ccentral ideology\u201d of consumerism. Capitalism is most vigorous when merged with counter-culture ideology. \u201eRebel sell\u201c almost emerged into a new philosophy from an critical outlaw status of political activists it changed into a marketing way to sell t-shits or pop-music.<\/p>\n

Heath and Potter explain the history of capitalism in the beginning as a system that was concerned with selling people things they needed.<\/p>\n

But once those needs had been largely satisfied capitalism became about selling things that would make people feel distinctive. Rebellion is one of the most powerful sources of destintion. As a result rebellion had become one the most powerful forces drving consumerism.<\/p>\n

Or, to put it with Banksy\u2019s words, the political art-activist, whose propaganda streetart-works are stolen to be sold in noble domesticated galleries:<\/p>\n

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“We can\u2019t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles.<\/p>\n

In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Banksy, Wall and Piece<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Here a link to an interview with the authors of the book)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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