What is the mood of tearing up a million pounds in front of hundreds of people?
Banksy can answer you.
On 5 October 2018, at an auction in London, England, a painting was frozen at £1.04 million after a fierce bid.
The author of this painting is Banksy, and the price of this painting also set his personal auction record.
When the hammer fell, there was an uproar in the audience, and an unexpected thing happened.
I saw that the paintings in the picture frame slowly slid down along the frame, and were divided into many thin strips, becoming a pile of waste paper.
It turned out that there was a shredder in the frame of this painting, and the moment the painting was successfully auctioned, it was the moment when the painting was destroyed.
There is no doubt that this is another mockery of The World by Banksy: I didn't expect that you would really spend so much money on a painting!
But what everyone did not expect was that after experiencing this storm, the value of this painting has doubled, from the original one million pounds to two million pounds.
I don't know if this result is what Banksy wants to see?
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Who Banksy really was, until now, no one knew.
In his profile card, Banksi has multiple identities, a graffiti artist, an activist in social movements, and a director.
But these identities were imposed on him by others, and BanXi himself never disclosed his name, appearance, and identity to the world.
The only thing people know about him is this photo with a hood.
In Britain, Banksy is a very mysterious existence, and likewise, a very legendary existence.
When it comes to british street graffiti, no one is unaware of Banksy.
Banksy's work is imbued with a strong personal character and carries a very strong irony.
Cameras monitoring walls:
The little girl holding the "balloon":
Squashed "gentleman":
In Banksy's work, there are often insinuations to hypocritical hypocrites, and the most famous work is the painting "Now, Laugh":
The painting says: Look, the era of monkey domination of the world is coming soon.
I have to say that the British satirize government officials, and there is indeed a set.
In addition to monkeys, another figure that often appears in Banksy paintings is a mouse.
As one of the most despised animals in Europe, rats symbolize the people at the bottom of society, but their existence cannot be ignored.
In addition to these two animals, Banksy likes to use the panda as a metaphor.
Because there are black and white on the panda's body, only the panda can be the real messenger against racial discrimination.
Banksy's graffiti and paintings are highly creative and subversive, and it is precisely because of this that his paintings are often pushed to the altar.
In addition to artistic value, most of Banksy's works will be given high economic value by the industry.
For example, the vandalized phone booth was coaxed to $550,000 at auction, and the transaction price was more than twice the pre-conference estimate.
But Banksy himself didn't really care about that.
Because to him, the world is like a big toy, and all he has to do is endless pranks.
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It is said that when Banksy was 14 years old, he declared war on the world and challenged the whole world.
To put it bluntly, Banksy, as a person, did not take the world seriously, nor did he take himself seriously.
The order of the world, and the so-called works of art, were all just jokes in his eyes.
Banxi's character, which ignores order, naturally subsumes into his paintings.
For example, in 2004, on the outer wall of a bar, Banksy created this "Kissing Policeman" in the middle of the night.
This work has since caused such a sensation that some groups, in order to better preserve it, moved "they" from the wall to the paper in a special way and put them into the exhibition hall for exhibition.
However, a large number of ironic creations soon brought Banksy into the eyes of the police, who called him an "art terrorist" and scoffed whenever he was mentioned.
Similarly, due to the anti-government tendencies in Banksy's paintings, the British authorities even ordered a unified purge of Banksy's works in order to prevent his creations, in order to suppress his arrogance.
However, this did not stop Banksy's creation, and soon after each cleansing, Banksy's works would still appear like ghosts in the streets and alleys, like weeds.
In addition to fighting the world on the streets, Banksy is best known for his "masterpieces" in major art galleries.
Banksy would often spoof great works of art and sneak them into the exhibition hall, mix them up in the originals, and often be discovered days later.
Many of these works are far-reaching, such as the French writer Miller's The Gleaner:
And the Mona Lisa, which blended into the Louvre:
Woman in gas mask:
There is also this "artifact" mixed into the British Museum:
The most bizarre thing is that these works have been hyped, without exception, and have been coaxed to a very high price and collected by various collectors.
For this "morbid" behavior of people, Banksy posted a picture on his personal website with a blackboard that read: I can't believe that you nerves would buy these things.
Before that, Mr. Banksy had dressed up in disguise and gone to New York's Central Park to set up a stall and label his paintings at $60 each.
As a result, it is not difficult to imagine that there are not many people who come to buy.
So, where is the value of art?
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With these acts and paintings, Banksy's name soon spread throughout Europe, but different people had different attitudes toward his actions.
Some people think that he is just a simple rebellion, infinitely enlarging the psychology of his own pranks, and then labeling himself "art".
There are also people who feel that his existence is inevitable and necessary, just like the popular talk show culture in the United States, the truth of this world is often too serious, and it is a very necessary thing to express it in a joking way.
In fact, Banksy's work does respond to social events, such as the "veil ban" in France in 2011, which stipulates that women are not allowed to wear veils in public, otherwise they will be punished.
Not long after the decree was promulgated, a painting appeared on the streets of Paris: Napoleon riding a war horse, but his whole body was covered with a cloak.
You know, as a national hero who once conquered all of Europe, Napoleon occupies a very important position in the culture of the French, and such a spoof is self-evident.
As Banksy himself put it: "Art is the biggest joke today." ”
If art is created only for commercial value, then what is the meaning of the existence of art?
Perhaps that's why two years ago, Banksy tore the painting to shreds.
I just don't know that the shredded painting was hyped twice, which was not within his expectations.
But this thing, he finally did it.
Perhaps for him, this is the real value of this painting after it is torn apart.
Author: River Wine