{"id":908,"date":"2017-04-17T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=908"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:36:15","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-banksy-grannies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-banksy-grannies","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Banksy “Grannies”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Banksy<\/b><\/span>
\nGrannies<\/i><\/span>
\n2006<\/span>
\nScreenprint<\/span>
\n19 3\/4 x 27 1\/2 in.
\nEdition of 150<\/span>
\nPencil signed and numbered; accompanied with COA by PEST Control<\/span><\/p>\n

About This\u00a0Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Banksy is a British street artist and activist who, despite worldwide fame, has maintained anonymity. Although details of the artist\u2019s life are largely unknown, it is thought that Banksy was born in Bristol more or less around 1974, and started his career in this city as a graffiti artist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether plastering cities with his trademark gangsta rat, painting imagined openings and building hotels in the West Bank barrier in Israel, or stenciling \u201cwe\u2019re bored of fish\u201d above a penguins\u2019 zoo enclosure, Banksy creates street art with an irreverent wit and an international reputation that precedes his anonymous identity. \u201cTV has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting<\/em>\u201d he says, \u201cbut graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress<\/em>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banksy\u2019s work features striking and humorous images, occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects often include rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.
\nAs all Banksy fans know, the artist can be extremely edgy, political, satirical, and in the case of this Work Of the Week, Grannies<\/em>, humorous as well. A humor that plays upon the evident contrast and contradiction that lays in the image of two old, extremely British ladies knitting sweaters that say PUNK IS NOT DEAD or THUG FOR LIFE.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banksy’s works need no explanation. Through his crafted signature and his immediately identifiable graphic style, he critically examines contemporary issues of consumerism, political authority, terrorism, and the status of art and its display. Grannies is another perfect example of how Banksy\u2019s work can be thought-provoking, intense, shocking, intriguing and funny.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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