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except that it's literally a crime to vandalize public spaces to impose your ideas, aesthetics, and art on the public. Are you in actual denial or what is happening here?
this is not a comment on my opinion of Banksy's artistic value. But a major component of their art is the simple fact that it IS a crime. If you take that away, it loses most of its meaning.
Cool...so it's ok for businesses to force their ideas, aesthetics, and art on the public because...money?
You should be able to form your arguments about the merits of Banksy's work and whether or not they commit crimes without pulling in emotional and irrelevant facts like, "I don't like everything I can see advertized (typically on private property) from public."
Look, their whole shtick is that their art is criminal. That's their fucking gimmick. I don't know why people are pushing back so hard on this.
I'm guessing by the downvotes there some people here that don't understand what banksy does exactly. Although they do occasionally use some canvas and frames, most of their work is graffiti.
Exactly. It's amazing graffiti, but it's graffiti all the same.