Banksy (document en anglais)

Banksy who would name in reality Robert Banks.

He would have been born in 1974.

He would be native of neighborhood from Bristol to the United Kingdom .

We do not know his real identity, it is information is given grace has cameras of security.

Banksy is an artist known for his tag in urban zones but he is also a painter and a director.

He combines the techniques of the stencil and the installation to make his messages pass, which mix political, humor and poetry .

The stencils of Banksy are funny images, sometimes combined with slogans.

His characters are often rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, celebrities or elderly.

He has to begin it left a group of graffeurs to call DryBreadZ Crew ( DBZ) .

The main works and facts realized by Banksy are :

Banksy entered the enclosure(pen) of the One-armed persons(Penguins) of the zoo of London and painted in letters 2 meters high "We' re Bored of Fish".

In 2005, he places artificial works in the MoMA, in Puts, in the Brooklyn Museum and in the American natural history museum of New York.

In 2006, he places an inflatable doll in real size to Disneyland , who carries a uniform orange as those of Guantanamo .

Numerous stencils of Banksy being on the walls of cities British as Bristol or London are threatened with destruction or to be covered by the paint. Petitions are to create to defend the creations of Banksy.

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