{"id":3397,"date":"2013-03-19T02:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2017-08-13T02:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T06:01:30","slug":"street-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2013\/03\/19\/street-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banksy, the pseudonymous England-based\u00c2\u00a0graffiti\u00c2\u00a0artist, political activist, film director, and painter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/banksy-arrest-hoax-2013-2\">is not actually Paul William Horner<\/a>, and his mystery makes him even cooler.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/indoors\/images\/st12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banksy is known for his stencil work on the streets of England where he promoted strikingly truthful phrases paired with dark images that revealed his anti-war, capitalist, and establishment perspectives. The street is his canvas, and has Christened houses, museums, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153do not trespass\u00e2\u20ac\u009d grounds with his works. He flees from the police, and for his entire artistic life has remained anonymous. He brings what many other street-artist predecessors have also introduced to the public \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a form of art that breaks free from all rules, institutions, and inhibitions. They are representations of the people, a democratized perspective of sorts, which integrates into the very streets you walk and live every day. In 2010 he <\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: -5432px;\">bonusuri case de pariuri online <a href=\"https:\/\/omnibet.ro\/bonusuri\/\">bonus pariuri sportive<\/a> bonusuri pariuri online<\/div>\n<p> created his first film, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exit Through the Gift Shop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d showcasing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the inside story of Street Art &#8211; a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Film in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.businessinsider.com\/image\/4efd957fecad04bc40000059-590-443-401-301\/banksy-maid.jpg\" alt=\"banksy maid\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Street art brings a sense of truth and excitement that traditional, gallery housed art lacks. The unavailability, raw perspective, and inherently cool factors make its study that much more exclusive and exciting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/shop\/images\/shop%20large\/stopandsearch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn1\/13093_2177082870574_203321459_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/indoors\/images%202\/rodney1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banksy, the pseudonymous England-based\u00c2\u00a0graffiti\u00c2\u00a0artist, political activist, film director, and painter, is not actually Paul William Horner, and his mystery makes him even cooler. Banksy is known for his stencil work on the streets of England where he promoted strikingly truthful phrases paired with dark images that revealed his anti-war, capitalist, and establishment perspectives. The street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}