The piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage. But by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews. A TfL source said: "It was treated like any other graffiti on the network." "The job of the cleaners is to make sure the network is clean, especially given the current climate," they said.... Of course there will be those who say it should have been kept or protected as art but that is somewhat academic....Here's the Instagram post:
This gets my "rats" tag. In case you have the question "Is it art?," remember that "art" is an anagram for "rat."
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The Banksy near my house lasted about a week before it was covered with more graffiti. I thought that was pretty good...
A true graffiti artist would recognize the ephemeral nature of his craft. If you don't actually want this kind of thing to happen then you're just a poser or a vandal.
Banksy shred a $1.4 mil piece for a goof, so he's gotta love the rat removal.
bit more of a performance piece ya got there...
Banksy has talent, but this really only encourages the un-talented to taint the same medium with their spastic scrawl.
Too many M&M's during potty training.
remember that "art" is an anagram for "rat."
...so, definitely not art then.
"Sleep, soft smiling,
Draws me unto her:
And those receive me,
Who quietly treat me,
As one familiar and well-beloved in that home:
But will not, oh, will not,
Not now, not ever;
But will not ever tell me who I am."
James Agee
HAH. Proving once again graffitti is shitty looking and can easily be mistaken for trash much like a 3 year olds doodlings can be passed off in a modern art gallery. No talent, visual noise created by savages.
If only there was some common attitude or outlook towards artistic expression in public spaces that would allow humans to distinguish pushpin from poetry, vandalism from graphics, and sickness from health . . .
Narr
You may say I'm a dreamer
I've always loved Banksy. Especially the etherealness of his art pieces...it's a mistake to think he didn't intend for it be temporary. Remember his 'self-destructing' art at Sotheby's?
His art is the perfect metaphor for the modern age. Short, sharp, and gone tomorrow.
It they aren't doing the same for all graffitti, then there is a problem. Other than that I see none.
Also, tar.
Was there a hint of sheepish apology in that statement? Graffiti is graffiti. I don’t recall Banksy winning some famous person privilege plebiscite. I like his work, But he purposely chose an especially temporal medium and these are the consequences. By which I don’t mean to imply that Banksy is complaining about his work being erased. What little I know of him makes me think he understands and that any whinging is coming from hipsters advertising their privilege.
The guy is very clever...a great marketer to be sure.
I don't expect subway janitors to recognize Banksy art, but it is rather distinctive.
I'm not sure what they should have done even it they had known...cut out the metal panels and frame them?
Might have paid for a lot of maintenance...
MICKEY MOUSE. Time for a moment of silence for Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. She was the leader of the Club as far as 12 year old boys were concerned.
Even better
Sad!!!😏🙂🤗😁😝😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
All graffiti matters.
Evidently they were unaware that the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
I’ve always found Banksy’s art to be incredibly lame. Even within the world of graffiti, it’s still painfully lame work. As art it’s bad and as graffiti it’s also bad.
It's all very well to topple statues of Columbus, but this is an offense against Art. I don't think the cleaners should be fired, but they certainly could use some art education. This is a huge loss for the heritage of humanity.
And also remember that MAGA GNAR is an anagram for ANAGRAM G.
@tcrosse: Perfect.
Bansky is a talented artist, but graffiti is graffiti no matter how deft the skill.
I fart fig.
It's like low tide sandcastle competitions at the beach.
I really like Banksy's rats for some reason. Maybe it's because they're just anthropomorphic enough to be relatable but not too human to be creepy?
Being British, I wonder if Banksy is a fan of Roland Rat?
The Art of Cleaning "service carriages".
Doesnt the artist choose his medium with full knowledge of its raw temporary nature? Isn't part of the "art" its transient quality?
This gets my "rats" tag.
"Once I was crazy! You see that button hole? Rats used to come out of that!"
Banksy didn't have 27B-6.
How dare open that window. Are you not aware that is the great Le Pétomane?
If he didn't want it to be defaced or erased, he wouldn't do graffiti. That's obviously part of the art.
What happens if someone paints graffiti over top of Banskey paintings at an art show?
its immortal art now, digitally speaking.
I like banksy work.
I think it's that droll visual wit, deft execution and prankster talent all of which i totally lack.
Isn't it a crime to paint on the subway cars?
Ann's rats were published here and on stickers. I still have mine on my car.
Doesn't this mean that he is confessing to vandalism?
Dust in the wind?
If you were really worried about the virus, why would you ride the Underground in the first place?
Has Banksy taken a graffiti stand on all the young children that were groomed for sexual favors by Muslim men? I'll bet to Bansky that is just the love that dare not speak its name.
He’s a White artist anyway, so SFMOMA wouldn’t want to acquire any of his work.
they probably thought it was graffiti because it was. If you don't want your art cleaned off, do it on your own building.
W...H...O... cares. If it was put on a wall without the permission of the owners of the wall, it an be painted over at will by the owners. Graffiti, by definition, is not permanent.
The view and treatment of Banksy's graffiti reminds me of the observation that it's not harassment when you get hit on by someone you find extremely attractive.
Roland Rat
Mickey Rat; I think that's the issue where he signs up to be a lab rat so he can get drugs.
The worst part of this illegal art is the anti-CCP pro-science political slant of the libtard artist.
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.--Cyril Connolly
Every artist writes his own autobiography.--Havelock Ellis
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.--D.H. Lawrence
What an artist dies with me!--Emperor Nero
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.--Leo Tolstoy
greppiti.
Sort of like ice sculpture .
It wasn’t supposed to be there, and now it isn’t. What’s the problem?
He has an unusual ability to keep his prankster/art interesting.
I guess that's why he makes the big bucks.
I much prefer Steven Spielbergs "Pinky and the Brain" for my rodent worship, I'll have you know..
PS: Tis truly "high rodent art" at its acme/aphelion :)
Banksy was illustrating Zappa's point about how "The most important thing in art is The Frame."
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