Friday, April 27, 2012

dialectics: hidden identity and great art


A guy who is an excellent artist but hides his identity… this guy is Banksy.

Banksy is a guy who decided to follow his passion, no matter if that meant breaking the law. He is known for putting his own works of art into museums and graffiti around the city. As many people know you can’t just walk into a museum and put up one of your pieces of art or go around doing graffiti. But for Banksy he didn’t care. He loved what he was doing and he was pretty damn good at it. But what he didn’t expect was for people to notice or become in love with him. So he created a pen name to protect his true identity from the law. But why did he care if he was such a great artist even after his art exhibit which the whole city loved?



A guy who was a copy cat artist but lets his identity shine…this guy is Mr. Brainwash (terry).

Terry was a guy who wanted to make a video about Banksy.  After all his studying and interviewing this video became more about himself.  He took the ideas of Banksy to put up out of the ordinary graffiti and to create an art exhibit. This wasn’t the only thing that made him a copy cat; he would look at books of other artist work and then photo copy it and change something about it. On top of that he would sell his works for tons of money. Yes in some cases he was a good artist but how can we give credit to a man who copies other artist and whose passion is mainly to be more and bigger than the other artist. Why does someone who is aware of copying other artist get away with showing his true identity?

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