Banksy Bristol

Last month I also went to Bristol, it is a harbour side town, party city and nice weather. In Bristol there're many graffiti and a street art all over the city. When we talk about the Bristol in terms of art, surely that the famous artist that pop up in my mind is a British graffiti painter; Banksy. He is very popular in the street art, stencil paint and the controversy behind it or the issue that he creates. The Banksy's graffiti was painted all around his hometown. Some located beside the street, some on a boat and some on a public building wall. Those painting placed in different area and surface, which make me wonder about the process he made. And mostly of Banksy's art creates a story and have a relationship to that location it was on. I walked around the Bristol, looking for Banksy's art, which is quite different from other graffiti. 

Love Cheat by Banksy

The name of this work is "Love Cheat" which it means quite directly to the story he creates. This work he shows a sense of humor to a plain building canvas. The work is on a wall of a sexual health clinic, it demonstrate an excited situation, which somehow it can reflect someone's moment in life. When talks about the principles that can effect to street art such as size, color or the position compare to a whole building canvas. Banksy can did it absolutely in a practical done. The size is average to be a window of someone's room because the street art should not be exaggerate or any surreal, it should look real and has a dimension to see that its really happen because it play with a real location. The color convey a light and shadow from a real environment and certainly the position is on a centre and can be seen easily when walk pass. Because I also don't know where it is, just follow the street and walk along, which it's very outstanding so I won't missed it. 

Artist's signature

His work placed in a very high position from the ground. The building located beside the street and it can be seen from the opposite view as well. 

Banksy police sniper and boy

Banksy reaper on the Thekla

This work I think it is a special one of Banksy's because it painted on a bottom of a big boat named Thekla, a music venue on a boat. As I went to see it since in April, 2011 this work was created many years ago in 2006. The image of Death is based on a 19th century etching illustrating the pestilence of The Great Stink. 

Banksy reaper on the Thekla (Internet)

 The work painted on the waterline of Thekla. As you can see compare between 2 pictures above. This one is a better photo from the internet I have researched. The work look so fresh and full in details of a ship. But my photo was took last month, it looks a bit changed and the the flood tide make lost of a ship details on a bottom. His works at Thekla are both painted inside and outside of a boat. The outside one is not obvious but you have to look at it from the opposite bank of a river. From the first picture you can see the scale of work compare to the whole size of a boat. It is very small but however it is not sink into the whole image of the boat. 

The Mild Mild West

This piece, The Mild Mild West is a good representative of Banksy and the Bristolian people. it depicts a huge, smiling teddy bear with a Molotov cocktail in his paw, facing three policemen holding up riot shields.

"People here are fond of that particular piece," says Steve Wright, author of a new illustrated book, Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home. "Maybe because it's a kind of comment on an aspect of the Bristolian character - a laid-back cider-drinking hippy who can nevertheless be roused into action. Fluffy but defiant." His art can represent the identity of artist and also his character represent his city as well. Bristol sits in a brilliant isolation, with its own distinctive view of the world and a particularly strong sense of its own humour and identity. Not so surprise that I was fascinating with this lovely color building and the art can be seen everywhere in this city. 

 Banksy's ad at Stroke Croft Street

other artist's graffiti at a Stroke Croft Street

You can find more information of Banksy's art at this website:
http://www.banksy.co.uk/