(0.22) We're talking about Banksy and what makes him so special so Richard, why does the
exhibition seem so
unusual?
Well, Banksy isn't someone who creates
for people to
and
, he's a street artist, he's a graffiti artist, so his work can be seen on the sides of buildings,
alongside rivers, on walls,
mainly in city centres.
And he's become something of an urban legend, hasn't he? His work isn't the traditional graffiti you know,
on walls, they're images which often have a
, that
kind of make you stop and look again. I think they're quite
.
Yes and graffiti artist just usually write their names but he actually does paint pictures and they're often very
and, of course, painting on public walls is
, and so Banksy has done two things to
, and, for the first thing, he's
remained
, no one really knows who he is...
Banksy's just a pseudonym
Yes, a pseudonym, we don't know what his real name is or who he is, and also secondly he doesn't just paint on walls, he has this technique using
stencils, so that means he can do the pictures very
, prepare the images
and then he just quickly
sprays through the stencils onto the wall, so it's a different technique and it is real art I think, there's a lot of his work on the streets in
, and in London too.