MOST FAMOUS ANONYMOUS ARTIST EVER?
Famous and anonymous alternately Banksy's artworks surround English citizens, either in the street or hidden in museums Still in the headlines > opening sequence for the well-known show « last october 2010

The Simpsons »

> his film entitled « Exit through the gift shop » was released on the 15th of december 2010 and has been nominated for an oscar

WHAT IS STREET
→ What?

ART? space > any art that is developed in public > unsanctioned

art

> wide range of techniques : graffiti artwork, video projection, stencil graffiti , street installations , street poster art... > the artworks that are created are very transient → When and Who? > French artist Gérard

Zlotykamien is considered to have initiated street art in 1963 French artist Blek le Rat, who first intervened in the street in 1981.
> in the late

mid-twenties

> other names: Miss Tic, Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Space Invader.

WHAT ABOUT BANKSY?
→ Who is he? > real name is thought to be Robert Banks > born in Bristol (England) in 1974 or 1975 > no one has ever seen his face. > risk of being caught by the police for vandalism It allows him to continue his work in the street. > first graffiti found in London in 1993 → About his art? > use of

stencils

> recurrent characters: rat and monkey

> critics :

oversimplification of key issues?

Keep Britain Tidy

CONTROVERSIES AND MESSAGES DELIVERED
> one-minute long opening sequence of an episode of « involving Asian sweatshops

The Simpsons »,

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf5obj_generique-de-simpsons-par-banksy_shortfilms > reference to street art and street artists Banksy's tag + « I must not write all over the walls » over the walls of the schoolroom > ties linking North developed countries to South developing countries

> nine paintings he created separating Israel and Palestine.

on the Palestinian side of the wall

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street art : art or mere vandalism?

– Should