F-Arty Friday – Meet Banksy, Street Artist Extraordinaire
Welcome to our first F-Arty Friday blog, which as you’ve hopefully guessed, stands for Fabulous Arty Fridays.
Last week, we launched Bite This! in honor of Zahra, Love, Inc.’s main character, whose passion is cooking.
Another key player in Love, Inc. is Sydney Stark, whose passion is art, so we’ve decided to dedicate Friday’s blog to arts.
Some people frown on Syd’s preferred medium: graffiti. In fact, spray painting on public property is illegal in Austin. But that just fuels Syd’s fire to express herself through “street art.”
In Love, Inc. Syd’s idol is the British graffiti artist known as Banksy, an artist she admires so much she named her beloved Rottweiler after him.
What’s not to love about Banksy, a funny, smart, subversive artist, who’s managed to sneak his work onto the walls of museums including the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City? He even managed to “tag” the animal enclosures at the central park zoo in Barcelona!
Here’s what Banksy himself says about his line of work:
Despite what they say graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
Thanks, Banksy, for making the world a more interesting place!
*All photos from: http://www.banksy.co.uk/
Last week, we launched Bite This! in honor of Zahra, Love, Inc.’s main character, whose passion is cooking.
Another key player in Love, Inc. is Sydney Stark, whose passion is art, so we’ve decided to dedicate Friday’s blog to arts.
Some people frown on Syd’s preferred medium: graffiti. In fact, spray painting on public property is illegal in Austin. But that just fuels Syd’s fire to express herself through “street art.”
In Love, Inc. Syd’s idol is the British graffiti artist known as Banksy, an artist she admires so much she named her beloved Rottweiler after him.
What’s not to love about Banksy, a funny, smart, subversive artist, who’s managed to sneak his work onto the walls of museums including the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City? He even managed to “tag” the animal enclosures at the central park zoo in Barcelona!
Here’s what Banksy himself says about his line of work:
Despite what they say graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.
Thanks, Banksy, for making the world a more interesting place!
*All photos from: http://www.banksy.co.uk/
posted by Yvonne and Sandy, loveincbook.com at 6:09 AM
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