I agree with both your words and your tone, but I’ll add one thing that I think does legitimately differentiate Banksy’s work from the Disney suckling cow teet dollar sign trope: I do think the fact that these images pop up in a public space and have an aesthetic that implies mass production (stencils), and often has…
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Well I think it’s kind of a cheap shot to bemoan that the fact that the art only engages in surface-level social commentary not necessarily because it’s not true, but because I’m not sure how much more you can really expect graffiti art to do. Ultimately, we’re talking about images as statements on very complex…
Your critique of what you think constitutes Banksy’s work is so much shallower than your misrepresented version of his work that I do have to give you some credit. Your comment is the 2014 version of, “My kid could paint that.” If you’re trying to satirize or parody people who explain things they obviously can’t…
Are you that dumb? The ‘ghetto’ piece was mocking the gentrification of the bronx (which is largely sold to middle class white youth as being ‘ghetto’) as well as graffiti. It was also calling out current graffiti artists that think they’re doing something ‘ghetto’. With that said, Banksy has never really tried to…
You know how there’s a kid in high school that draws a cartoon of Bugs Bunny suckling from the teet of a cow, and the cow has a dollar sign on it, and then the kid is like, “MY ART IS SOCIAL COMMENTARY!”
That’s basically Banksy. It’s very surface level social commentary that feels more like the graffiti equivalent of a…
I already love dogs. I don’t need another reason to love dogs. But when dogs tackle children, that love soars even higher.
This is a very naive and idealistic viewpoint. I want a house on the moon, but I don’t have a house on the moon. I have a house I can afford near where I work.
He didn’t say you can’t have different opinions on various issues anywhere in this piece. Read it again.
But you haven’t identified bipartisan attitudes to the issues you name, you’ve identified what are currently partisan attitudes to the issues you name, it just so happens that the collection of issues don’t add up to the platform of a political party at the moment. Republican congresspeople aren’t going to spurn the…
One of these people is very talented, and the other is Morrissey.
Democrats held several hearings on the ACA and debated it on the floor for 25 days
Whenever I hear a Republican these days, all I can hear is Weston in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra:
Sen. Murphy is on fire wth this speech! I recommend peeping at the entire excerpt. A bunch of the New England Senators are really acquiring themselves very well under our new world order. The Resistance is strong with them.
will you be sad if he doesnt reply?
He was good, friendly, affable, generous man. With a family. A small daughter. Who tortured and killed animals to entertain a mob.
The Bernie Step would have still been there.
See this?:
I dunno; seems pretty hard-hitting to me.
That’s why I don’t watch the local news. Nothing but endless puff pieces.