Wednesday 13 October 2010

This is a Banksy graffiti piece, this is one of my favorite pieces of art because of the meaning of it, and the fact that Banksy is an anonymous artist. This image represents how some issues in society are ‘swept under the rug’, and ignored. The maid could represent the working class people. The way she is dressed could represent maids who work for very upper class people, perhaps in the victorian age. Banksy's work is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment.  His pictures usually include rats, monkeys, the elderly, the police, soldiers and children. Banksy began his work painting/spraying on walls without stencils, but he realised (whilst hiding under a car from the police) that stencils would be easier and quicker and still get his desired effect. At London zoo he climbed into the penguin enclosure and wrote "we are bored of fish" on the wall.

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