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'As soon as I cut my first stencil, I could feel the power there. I also like the political edge. All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars' —BanksyCombining despair and humour, in Thrower (Grey), Banksy presents the image of a young man with his face partially covered by a bandana and base-ball cap, leaning backwards in momentum to detonate a bouquet of flowers. Typical of Banksy’s socially charged imagery, the menacing figure juxtaposed with a symbol of peace and love, demonstrates the artist’s sustained interest in the absurdity of war, as well as the arbitrariness that can derive from unequal power dynamics. While the spraypainted protagonist is armed with blooming plants and nothing else, the forces surrounding him seem to operate heavier weaponry, placing him in a position of immediate danger.
Banksy first used this motif in 2003, when it appeared as graffiti on Jerusalem’s West Bank Wall, that which separates Israel from Palestine, shortly after it was erected. Evoking the 1960s pacific slogan ‘Make Love Not War’, the image has become a symbol of peaceful resistance and an ode to spontaneity. Despite the site-specific context of its iteration on the West Bank Wall, the image represents protest without specifying its target, embodying a hint of the punk ethos of non-conformity and perpetual resistance to authority that is typical of Banksy’s early graffiti works. Following in the footsteps of Keith Haring and Jean Michel-Basquiat, Banksy continues to utilize graffiti as a tool for activism. The motif has been reproduced in multiple formats since first conceived, including two print editions: Love Is In The Air, 2003, and Thrower (Grey), 2019.
Bernie Boston, Flower Power, October 22, 1967. Image © Worcester Art Museum / Bridgeman Images Catalogue Essay
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藝術家簡介
班克斯
British • 1975 - N/A
Anonymous street artist Banksy first turned to graffiti as a miserable fourteen year old disillusioned with school. Inspired by the thriving graffiti community in his home city, Bristol, Banksy's works began appearing on trains and walls in 1993, and by 2001 his blocky, spray-painted works had cropped up all over the United Kingdom. Typically crafting his images with spray paint and cardboard stencils, Banksy is able to achieve a meticulous level of detail. His aesthetic is clean and instantly readable due to his knack for reducing complex political and social statements to simple visual elements.
His graffiti, paintings and screenprints use whimsy and humour to satirically critique war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed — with not even the Royal family safe from his anti-establishment wit.
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