3. Annotation

Reference

Banksy (2005) Wall and piece / Banksy. London: Century.

This books is was written by Banksy, one of the most known street artist out there. He mostly talks about his work and how they came about. He also talks about his experiences  as a street/graffiti artist. It is also one  the most interesting books I've read so far on this topic street/graffiti art because Banksy really opens his opinion and hes really straight forward on how his work is influencing the viewers.

 "I'm going to speak my mind, so this won't take very long."  In this quotes Banksy goes straight to in to it, he certainly speaking his mind, You could tell by the way he writs, because he haven't came up with any formal description on what hes going to talk about abut going straight to the point. He quotes "A wall has always been the best place to publish your work." He goes straight to what he believes which is the street walls are his canvas , I think that the way he write is similar to the way he creates his work. He speaks his mind. In most of Banksy work he shows his point of view on politicians, anti war , freedom and peace, and they are really effective it draws a lot of attention because they are his pure thoughts, and its something you hardly see in most artist work because they are all about perfection and not really about their statement that they want to express in their work.

Banksy talks about how different people view his work or graffiti/street art. He quotes " The people who run our cities don't understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit." I agree on Banksy point of view. The governments now days only care about money, and we all know that the main source of evil on earth comes from money, and if a government focus is only on money that country will go through a lot of struggle. I think when Banksy talks about making profit, I think hes talking about advertisement.There a lot of source of advertisement out there that we are not aware of. Most advertisement are mostly bragging people to spend money on meaning less things e.g. women fashion, and also spending money on thing that could harm us e.g fast food advertisement. Our government let business do this even if they over advertise, but when one men want to state a statement about peace and freedom they immediately send the police to take them down and shut them up. I think that this is really unfair but it has also made street artist like Banksy stronger and are out there more.