Artist To Check Out - Banksy Flower Girl Up For Auction


If you are not familiar with Banksy, I suggest you Google him.  The graffiti artist known only as "Banksy" is a pioneer in the guerrilla art movement and with the new genre of art comes a new market for art.  Building owners are excavating the graffiti paintings from exterior building walls and auctioning the paintings for huge profits.  Banksy has allegedly encouraged buyers not to buy his works of public graffiti proclaiming the works are meant for the public.  What do you think?  If a person claims the right to paint on someone else's building, do they then have the right to deny someone else from selling their painting?  Watch an L.A. gas station owner do just that as they salvage a Banksy painting, 'Flower Girl', for auction at Julien's. 

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