Banksy, the ghost graffiti artist ... is the most mysterious and controversial artist around the world

As a monkey masking the face of its bearer, 7 million Instagram followers present the famous and anonymous graffiti artist Banksy at the same time to the public.

Banksy is an anonymous graffiti painter who publishes his drawings on street walls in various parts of the world, often carrying symbolic drawings of social and humanitarian issues, and rats are an important element in many of his drawings.

Who is Banksy?

There are numerous accounts about the unknown artist’s personality, some of whom claim to have spotted the artist while working on one of the paintings in the streets of Melbourne in Australia and filmed with video, while another person said that he met the artist at a train station and gave him a painting valued at 23 thousand dollars after he helped him to Pick up one of the color boxes that fell from his bag, while a documentary film produced by the American company "HBO" mentioned that Banksy is a group of 7 artists working in the management of a woman, and all these accounts remain unconfirmed.

However, the most prevalent account is that Banksy is a local artist from Bristol, Britain, named Robin Gunningham, and a criminologist arrived at this result after he adopted the method of its geography to get to know the artist by tracing the locations of Goningham and the emergence of Banksy paintings, and the result showed a congruence in 140 A place for Banksy paintings with titles linked to the presence of Oninghamham.

However, what is known about Robin Gunningham is not very different from what is known about Banksy when he was little, since he was born in July 1973, he started graffiti during his teenage years in British Persetol, and moved to London in 2000, and has no connection with his family or friends what makes It is almost impossible to ascertain his true identity.

And the artist maintains his anonymity until now because he sees that that makes people focus on the content of the subject that he puts away from the artist’s personality. Banksy said: “If you want to say something that people hear, you have to wear a mask.”

His works

The work of the graffiti artist Banksy was influenced by the French artist, Blake Le Rat, in terms of employing political spots in art and expressing them with graffiti art. He even followed the method of "STENCIL", which is drawing using ready-made molds, which is the same method used by Le Rat, which enabled him to draw murals in a way Fast, Banksy holds some exhibits, and produces no more than one copy of the same work.

The artist's work is estimated at thousands of dollars and perhaps more, but money is not considered the end and the primary goal of what he does.

One of his paintings, titled "Keep It Free", was sold at a auction in 2008 at one million pounds sterling, while the price of a house carrying a Banksy drawing on one of its sides was estimated at 500,000 pounds.

Political messages and art

His own graffiti graphics impressed, surprised, and angered the authorities as Banksy was arrested hundreds of times for painting on the walls.

While the artist's drawings collected millions of fans on Instagram, considering that art is a fine message.

The other side stands in stark contrast, considering that what the artist Banksy and others who follow the art of murals do is a deliberate act of sabotage of public property.

Balloon Girl is the most famous and latest Banksy trick

The disgraced British artist Banksy performed a trick that could be one of the most daring in the history of the arts. He put a paper-cutting machine in the framework of one of his paintings, which led to him being torn automatically immediately after being sold at a public auction at Sotheby's in London, for more than one million pounds. Sterling.

The artist posted a video on his page on "Instagram" showing his placement of the cutting machine in the painting. "Banksy" commented on the video, using the saying of the famous artist Picasso: "The yearning for destruction is also a creative longing."

There is as yet no information on how the plate began to cut itself at that controversial moment after the auction, but it was often possible to activate it with an automatic remote control.

The identity of "Banksy", who is one of the most famous street artists in the world, remains a great mystery since his career began in the nineties.

No one saw a portrait of the artist, who is often denounced in his works for the consumerism, American imperialism, and fate of refugees, in his drawings around the world, from London to Gaza.