Banksy Graffiti

Since 1967 graffiti can be seen almost anywhere. However, over the years it has gotten more and more popular and eventually making it into our culture. It is seen as a form of art and is both loved and hated by people. However, it is easy to find that sometimes the people who hate the graffiti the most or think it's a bad thing despite its good qualities, are the ones who mistreat it the most. This can be seen in the story of one of the most famous and talented graffiti artist. Banksy, the 20 million dollar graffiti artist whose identity remains unknown by most. He is famous for his sculptures and graffiti that are highly mistreated in the end. By this I mean, when Banksy is working on a new piece he has a stencil that he sprays onto and you

A documentary called “Saving Banksy” on Netflix speaks about how he will even go as far as to fake an entire moving operation where he will be working and has two people on the side of him holding up mattresses so that people such as policemen cannot see him and cannot arrest him at that time. And it isn’t long before the art gets tagged by other artists, or worse, taken down and sold at auction. Banksy street art is very popular and can get very expensive at high-end auctions, the most expensive one selling for 1.87 million dollars. However, one artist named Basquiat made a graffiti piece called “Untitled” selling for $16,322,500. To some this may seem harmless, the graffiti gives people a chance to stay out of trouble and express their artistic abilities. And in some cases, they are even hired or paid for their work. So what’s the problem? The problem is that not all artists are paid for their work; instead, the people who sell their work

The city would then come and they would either force the shop owners to either paint over it, cut it out, or destroy it and build a new wall altogether. A large quantity of the shop owners would just paint over the art, but as Banksy pieces gradually got worth more and more, the owners began to cut out the art. They would proceed to sell it at auction for thousands or even millions of dollars. As stated earlier, Banksy does not get paid for this, the seller does. And that seller often does not like graffiti and does not support it. There are even some cases where the buyer will not support the art either and yet they will pay large amounts of money for graffiti from large named artists. Imagine if the law accepted graffiti and let it stay up. This would save roughly 12 billion dollars spent on graffiti removal spent every year. And also would make our everyday lives more colorful. Sometimes the artist would even put a strong message out into the public or taunt something in a way other than graffiti. Banksy has even done