Banksy is the allusive Street artist as most will know.
A piece he spray painted on a piece of card of a little girl holding a bomb is going to auction. It's estimated to fetch thousands of pounds.
It was painted for one of the demonstrations in London over the 2003 Iraq war.
This thread is not for the rights or wrongs of the war. I'm curious of to why this kind of art and other things against basically the establishment is so popular and my bigger question is why didn't he do art showing the little children being gased and murdered by the dictatorship of Iraq?

Because no one would even look at the piece of crap otherwise. JMHO

Define "popular."

How many people are actually going to attend the auction?
How many people are actually going to bid on that piece of "art?"

If 1% of the 1%'ers gather, each with a net worth of 10's of millions of dollars, and 1% of those bid thousands of dollars on that art, is it really "popular?" Especially when a mass produced poster of taylor swift selling at wal mart for $5 sells 5 million copies to people who live under the poverty level?

Let's say the "winning" bidder spends $10K on the "Banksy" art, what's the subsequent market? What will it resale for, or will it lose its artistic cache as the world turns and moves on...will anyone pay anything close to it in 10 years?



Why would anyone but him know that?
Maybe he did do art showing that, but sold it to a private collector, or maybe kept it himself.

I have never heard of him but his trash belongs in the street, in the gutter.

If we got a can of spray paint and did it we'd be locked up