Banksy.

... Banksy. Banksy is a graffiti stencil artist, borb and raised in Bristol in 1974. Banksy was involved in the Bristol graffiti boom of the late 1980s. He desined his first stencil as a favour for his father who was away on holiday. He was a photo copier engineer, and banksy was required to help out one day as a one off. Since that day Banksy has refined a distinctive iconic style which he has plastered all over walls, and bridges, car tunnels, books records and evan cows. Banksy is renowned strongly for his sense of the ridiculous. He once inside the Penguin and Elephant enclosures of London zoo, he painted, In large lettering as if the animals had wrote it themselves. " I want out his place is too cold, keeper smells, boring, boring, boring." Banksy found in stencils the potencial for strong powerfull images to captivate an audience and twist their perceptions. In this

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