Banksy Graffiti

It was painted in 2008 in Manhattan, New York.

Bansky

Cash Machine Grab

Follow your dreams

I have chosen this graffiti that is located in a wall of Chinatown.

I think this graffitti contains a social message; it is about the difficulties and the few opportunities that people have to follow their dreams. Personally, I have chosen this graffiti because of the importance of the message and because I agreee it is very difficult to follow our dreams.

In the graffiti I chose, which is in Gillette Square (Dalston), there is a little boy carrying a big stereo in his hand, with an air vent as the speaker of the stereo. He dresses as a rapper, with baggy clothes and a cap. He looks like a boy from the Bronx or another depressed area. He is also carrying a teddy bear, and he has a golden gun necklace. The expression in his face shows he is sad or maybe a little bit aggressive.

I think he is trying to show children nowadays grow quickly and the don't have time to be children. The golden necklace with the gun means he is exposed to violence so he sees it as normal.

Banksy

If I must take a graffiti among all of Banksy´s, I would choose the one that has a young boy (maybe of 8 years old) carrying a radio like the b-boys do and holding a teddy bear on the other hand. For me, the meaning of this graffiti is that sometime ago, a child could be a child: innocent and free. But nowadays, life is so hard in the suburbs that boys are forced to act like adults to survive (the radio) while they are still children inside (teddy bear).

Presentation:

The picture I have chosen shows the silhouette of a little boy kneeling

down on the ground holding a brush and with a tin full of paint by his

side. On the wall, in bright orange, it is written “Take this- society”. The

colloquial expression “Take that, society” it is used when you do something

against the rules, or something not very civic. I think this picture is just a

way of mocking at all these people who criticise him; a way of showing that

he does whatever he wants, and that no one can tell him what he can or

can’t do.

Banksy

This Banksy picture it's located in London in the Holland Park Roundabout.

In the picture appeared a child keen down. He is holding a paint brush and near by there is an orange paint bottle. In the wall it's written with the orange paint "Take this society".

I think in this picture Banksy is complaining about the violent and consumist society that is around us and he uses the image of a child as a symbol of innocence.