BANSKY vs KATRINA New Orleans

Banksy is an emerging graffiti and cartoon artist from London England, has been on my top artist list for the last 5 or 6 years.
I had the pleasure of seeing some of his street art in Amsterdam and London early on in the century.

This piece in-particular is one of my newest favorites though. On a recent trip to the demolished city of New Orleans, Banksy, who is known for exploiting government policies and tyrants, left no stones unturned in ghost land of the once beautiful town.

"Marching Band" in acrylic spray paint done first in stencil on huge sheets of cardboard, stands about 6 1/2 feet in height and is located on an unknown street in the lower 9th ward, in New Orleans Louisiana.

It symbolizes so well the culture of New Orleans and that the music of the City will forever be present in the city. It also depicts that the backbone of N.O will never be broken by the government of natural disaster.

Banksy's art has gone on to influence many in the world and has created a series of chain reactions and similar styles of both graffiti and prints world wide.

Here are a couple more of his pieces from his trip to N.O.















More Banksy:

My favorite thing about this artist, is that he never seeks huge amounts of money for his art. He has never stopped painting illegal walls and his messages are always very clear and very clever.

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The two of them together managed, in record time, to replace the LP with Dangers new Version of Complete remixes of the Paris Album, and revamp the artwork on the cover only slightly, to create a completely different LP. The CD's were then re-shrink wrapped and placed back in the hands of the distributors as if nothing happened.

The pure genius of this scandal, was that the record company that released the LP, also had ties to Danger Mouse's Music, in that if the company sued Danger and Bansky, they in turn would be suing themselves!!!

BRILLIANT!!!!!

When the CD's hit the shelf, a huge uproar was created, Paris was outraged and the papers were calling Bansky a "Guerilla Graffiti Artist" and "menace!"

Here is the Two different covers!

BEFORE





AFTER









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