1. Although there has been a great deal of speculation over the years, Banksy’s true identity has never been revealed.
2. Banksy is originally from Bristol, England, and fellow Bristolian street artist Robert del Naja a.k.a. from the 🐷band Massive Attack served as a source of inspiration to Banks🥀y.
3. Much of his street art and urban interventions ac🧜t as critical commentary on major global issues, including terrorism, political authority and capitalism.
4. Initially, he preferred drawing and producing freehandဣ, but in 2000 he began using stencils, in part due to how quickly they may b🤪e produced.
5. His first exไhibition in 2000, was held at a restaurant in Bristol t﷽hat was owned by friends.
6. At one of his most infamous exhibitions, Crude Oils, held in Notting Hill, he displayed iconic paintings that he had “re-mixed,” adding various elements and motifs of his own. Most notably, however, was the inclusion of 200 live rats that roamed freely within the gallery spacᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🧸ᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe.
7. In 2004, he produced what were later identified as Difaced Tenners—a play on words with “d💎efaced”—which were fake ten pound notes using Princess Diana’s face in place of the Queen’s.
8. His 2006 exhibition Barely Legal, held in a Los Angeles warehouse, featured an elephant painted red and stenciled with gold fleur de lis to match the wallpaper. Animal rights activists petition✃ed the use 𝔍of the elephant, and they were eventually ordered to hose it down.
9. For the 2006 film , director Alfonso Cuarón approached Banksy for possible collaboration. Banksy ultimately declined the invitation, however, allowed his the reproduction of his work 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Kissing Coppers to be used in the background of one scene.
10. The work of Banksy has developed a celebrity following, with many world-famous actors, athletes, musicians, and fellow artists, including Damien Hirst, Justin Bieber, Ser🤡ena Williams and Angelina Jolie, having acquired his work.
11. U2 frontman Bono commissioned the artist to produce a work titled Sweeping it Under the Carpet while Bono was a guest editor at the Independent. The piece was a commentary ✃on Western inaction to AIDS and other major issues in Africa.
12. The 2010 documentary was d🐻irect🍒ed by Banksy, and was nominated for an Academy Award.
13. Despite remaining anonymous, he was named one of in 2010, alongside Barack Oꦕbama and Steve Jobs. For his profile, he provided an image of himself ꦯwith a paper bag over his head.
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14. Also in 2010, he created the opening-credit sequence, or “couch gag,” for the episode “MoneyBart” on The Simpsons.
15. British journalist and writer Simon Hattenstone held a face-to-face interview with Banksy, and ꦿdescribes the artist in his as “white, 28, scruffy casual – jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of the Streets".
16. A considerable amount of Banksy’s fame and notoriety stems from his urban intꦰerventions, including hanging his own works among masterpieces at major museums such as the Louvre, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
17. Despite many artists craving it, Banksy has expresse🐎d reservations about the degree of co♍mmercial success he has garnered, , “Commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We’re not supposed to be embraced in that way.”
18. In 2015, he opened Dismaland, in Weston-super-Mare, England. A full-scale, temporary amusement park, which also displayed artworks by other artists, was largely conceptual in intent, and he described it as “a family attraction that acknowledges inequality and impending catastrophe.” It included fake security checkpoints, replete wi🦩th cardboard x-ray scanners, and also served as a music venue.
19. In 2017, he opened his second major-scale project, , in Bethlehem. Built alon🔜gside the barrier wall that separates Israel from Palestine, it ꦕadvertises itself as having “the worst view of any hotel in the world.”
20. During the Contemporary Art Evening Auction held at Sotheby’s London in 2018, Banksy’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Girl with Balloon, a canvas iteration of his famous motif, the work passed halfway through a hidden shredder in the frame once the night's final hammer fell. Later, Banksy uploaded a video to his website where he indicated that the shredder had malfunctioned, and the entire work was meant to have been destroyed. The artist christened the newly shredded work 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Love is in the Bin.
21. The term was coined in reference to both increasing critical and comme🧜rcial interest in, specifically, street art, but more generally work done by artists whose purview is outside the cultural mainꦅstream, as a result of Banky’s wide popularity.
