Banksy
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- colin_s0
hating on banksy to me is sort of like hating nine inch nails.
now, i'm no NIN fan, but i have to respect reznor. he did shit his way and in the end turned an industry on it's head on more than one occasion, and now is able to bring a quite honestly brilliant experience to a lot of people who truly love it on his own terms.
meanwhile there are plenty of other acts out there who are more fearful of losing the industry that 'supports' them than they are of trying to overpower it and do things on their own.
say what you will about his art specifically, but banksy has managed to consistently told the "art world" to fuck itself through his own work, while also maintaining a pretty big shroud of mystery (and, fairly consistently, putting out apt sociopolitical statements).
i can understand if you just don't like street art or perhaps maybe think his work is trite, but what he's done is quite impressive.