The third non-web designer i have chosen to look at is British Graffiti artist Banksy. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics.His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti. Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.
"I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key" Banksy.
Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers for some images due to the photocopy nature of much of his work.
He mentions in his book, 'Wall and Piece', that as he was starting to do graffiti that he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.
I really like the work that Banksy has done. It is different to normal vandalism graffiti because it actually means something. If i was to to take an influence from Banksy it would be to create work that actually means something. I would hope to create work/designs that mean something to me or other people.
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