Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 6:58 pm

angsta wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 6:53 pm
Agreed, Banksy was a writer like this Soron dude, painting spots Barton Hill, track sides and the occasional train but you probably didn't notice or remember his work because it wasn't particularity different from other writers who were doing much the same thing. You noticed his stencils because they are much quicker to do and at the time he was one of the few writers that used them. In graffiti the use of stencils outside of say a New York writer from the 80s like Futura 2000 was unacceptable. Specifically in the 90s when Banksy started getting up. Banksy and this Soron dude represent basically the same thing.

I don't remember if it was FHM or Bizzare mag in like 1996 or 1997 had Banky's shovel rat stencil in one issue for all to use, along with a multispread feature on him. I was 13 or so at the time, pissing off my dad with rat stencils everywhere on the farm haha

Bubble T wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:14 am

AndyKK wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:22 amBanksy- art makes you think.

I was born and raised in Montpellier, Bristol about two streets down from where Banksy allegedly lived. I used to see his early "work" everywhere I walked as it was all over the neighborhood, from Cromwell Road, through Stokes Croft all the way down into Broadmead. Initially it was almost all just tags like the ones in the OP. They were mostly stencils right from the start, that was his thing, but they were still just mindless tags with his name and nothing else.

One that I remember in particular was this huge one on the side of the Kwik Fit opposite the Polish church just before you get to Stokes Croft as I walked past it on my way to school every day. It was just a massive stencil of his name, nothing more.

He gradually branched out but it took a long time. I think his "Mild Mild West" teddy throwing flowers at riot police was the first real artwork I saw from him, and that was many years after the tagging started.

Not saying these guys are good or that they didn't fuck up, clearly they did, but the double standard being applied here isn't warranted.

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angsta wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 4:22 pm

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