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. 

Art: Mysterious Bansky

The very well known underground Graffiti artist who goes by the pseudonym "Bansky" is a virtual mystery to the public.  His known paintings are fueled with tongue in cheek social commentary - he places his graffiti paintings in internationally busy areas for maximum exposure.  Bansky has also been known to secretly place his framed paintings beside other famous works of art in major galleries.  Now famous and filling galleries with his own exhibits, Bansky's true identity remains a secret.  This clever artist is worth checking out.

Check out the Bansky documentary "Exit Through The Gift Shop" which began as a documentary about Bansky and ended up as a documentary by Bansky. 

Graffiti Hotel

Graffiti, as an art form, walks a fine line between art and intrusion. The Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France gave Graffiti artist Tili the opportunity to intrude and walk that fine line literally by splitting a room exactly in half with his art.  Check it out.

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