But the white paint is barely visible.
The stop line? Well in that case just as well that Banksy very effectively drew attention to the large stop sign.
I hope that Southwark council are suitably grateful to him.
Shame, would've been nice if it was a fake sign put up, so that the 'winner' of this Banksy game had something to sell, now it'll just revert to the council, who will sell it, then again at least they'll make some money to put back into the community.
Re the profiteers; Scalping in other words.
**** scalpers. And those who enable them.
Typical amateur crim, seen carrying out the act of criminality.
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Had he pinched it at 3am, then stuck it in a cupboard for a few years, he could have produced it, Banksey will have evidence of its authenticity, and it would have then been sold, raking in a very tidy profit.
I dont get it. He does graffiti with some skill but I really don’t see a meaning or a statement in it. I’ve always of the view hat if the work requires and explaination then clearly it has failed. If it good and has a meaning beyond the asthmatic then it should be self explanatory
Nothing wrong with a bit of ambiguity in art, not that this piece has much of that. Stop drone strikes.
“Say What You See”
I always think it would be a massive attack on Banksy’s privacy and career to out his identity
Neil Buchanan is indeed a genius.
Stop drone strikes
It has been suggested that it was a wider "stop the arms trade' message. And that the undertakers nearby to the sign was a consideration.
I’ve always of the view hat if the work requires and explaination then clearly it has failed.
I am guessing that you are not a huge fan of Shakespeare when it comes to the performing arts then?
It has been suggested that it was a wider “stop the arms trade’ message.
“COMMERCIAL WAY” suggests that, doesn’t it.
if you have instinctively understood every work of art produced by mankind without need of any further study or introspection then you are the most intelligent human who has ever lived. However your use of the word “hat” in this sentence where it patently does not belong makes me think in fact, that you are not that 🤔I’ve always of the view hat if the work requires and explaination then clearly it has failed.
I took the gentle juxtaposition of the tower block in the background, combined with the familiar red and white so embedded in collective Christmas consciousness to be a timely message of how similar residential blocks in the Holy land are under constant bombardment by an apartheid regime with the full taxpayer funded support of those who apparently go to war invade resource rich countries on the other side of the world in the interests of freedom and democracy...
But anyway, peace on earth and goodwill to all
hightensionline
Neil Buchanan is indeed a genius.
Not sure Robin Banks agrees though?
He does graffiti with some skill but I really don’t see a meaning or a statement in it.
It couldn't be more obvious if it tried!
No Heathrow 5!
The sign itself says stop, and it has pictures of the Protector drone, which has indeed been stopped from being used in the UK, and the US, so a bit of a nugatory statement being made.
Are you sure they are Protector drones?
Are you sure they have been stopped from being used in the UK and US?
Are you sure that you don't want to focus on some other pedantic point?
https://www.forces.net/news/raf-protector-what-aircraft-and-what-can-it-do
A further 15 aircraft will arrive from the US as part of a phased delivery, with all Protectors expected to be operational by 2025.
Apologies, meant to say Predator MQ-1, not Protector, which is the future RAF drone to replace Reaper.
Whether or not is has any bearing on the comment in the art or not I have no idea, but the tower block in the background of that photo above is Lakanal house scene of the fire in 2009 in which 6 people lost their lives.
The headmaster of my secondary school in Peckham was called Mr W Uden. The undertakers right next to that sign are call Uden, which is exactly the same family as my former headmaster.
I also doubt that it has any bearing on comment which the work of art is supposed to encourage 🙂
I dont get it. He does graffiti with some skill but I really don’t see a meaning or a statement in it. I’ve always of the view hat if the work requires and explaination then clearly it has failed. If it good and has a meaning beyond the asthmatic then it should be self explanatory
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean others don't get it. You also can't decide whether art is good and whether meaning should be self explanatory for you for it to be rated as good. Art is not a science...
Indeed. It's why Warhol had to put 'serving suggestion' on his soup cans.
And for ‘theft’ to be prosecuted, wouldn’t the ‘rightful owner’ of the piece therefore have to come forward at some stage? Kind of tricky, no?
no need for the rightful owner to be identified in order to prosecute theft. Obviously an accused person could try to claim they were the rightful owner - which if Banksy was genuinely anonymous might make an interesting defence - a bit “I’m Spartacus”.
some people here think you can’t prosecute the theft without also prosecuting the defacing of the sign. That’s nonsense, prosecutors makes thousands of decisions each day on which crimes warrant prosecution, and which in those particular circumstances are not in the public interest to pursue. Ignoring Banksy’s “art” doesn’t mean they are required to ignore my attempts at political messaging by respraying street signs; similarly they would not be required to prosecute me for theft if I was to go and collect a bunch of litter and turn it into art worth thousands.
invade resource rich countries on the other side of the world in the interests of freedom and democracy…
"Commercial Way"
