Bansky one
of the most famous street artist in the world. His artistic works consists of
political and social themes which is usually featured in the streets. I especially
liked two of his famous pieces of art which represents almost the same concept!
The first depicts a woman being pulled down falling and reaching for her
shopping cart full of goods and the second shows three children giving all
manner of respect to a hastily lifted Tesco bag that flies like a flag in the
breeze.
The falling
shopper piece is painted a couple of floors up with a pretty drop shadow below while
on the lower right portion of the wall is written ,”Cops Against Cuts” The
G=Good Cop.’ Toting the artist’s thoughts which is obviously in this case
consumerism after it’s been continually questioned due the heightened economic
over spending while the second piece the Tesco flag is bringing lots of
political commentary the first impression of the scene conveys a sense of shock
as the children are honoring a Tesco grocery bag as they might honor their
national flag.
Though both
documents shows a banal and ordinary scenes of usual streets the artist is
presenting a bitter critic to the consuming society and shows the domination of
big profit companies to people which changes their own way of living. This is
an awakening call to people to try and changes their lifestyle and try to find
new ways to live a better and healthier life and to give more importance to
healthy and good things instead of consuming blindly.
I
personally like both art pieces and Love the artist’s work because his pieces
make you think about the meaning. Both
pieces welcome ample social discussions and political viewpoint on consumerism which
seems to be the artist’s representation of commercialism and consumer culture.
The children in the Tesco flag piece are now showing allegiance to a
corporation rather than home country while in the falling shopper photo to a
trolley. I also think that the dark use of colors in both pieces furthers the
sense of their disaffection and also leading to the unavoidable question:Will You Shop Till You Drop?!
