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chuppery:

Lol…the fact that people are getting seriously upset and offended by Banksy’s Dismaland makes me feel like I must live in an art “bubble”… like people think this a real amusement park? What. Its not an ~*edgy*~ version of Disneyland, its an installation meant to provoke an audience.. Its supposed to be creepy and confusing. Also he’s always made over the top, in your face art…almost always focused on politics and consumerism. 

Tl;dr Seeing non-artists react to art makes me laugh sometimes

this post is preformance art

#banksy isnt trying to provoke anyone he is creating a product to be consumed by people who want to fantasize about being an activist #without actually having to perform activism #he knows his audience and he knows what he is doing and its getting him attention and money #his success is built on the very things he claims to criticize and thats why he never examines those things too deeply #otherwise his business model would fall apart #he is not the first artist to do this nor will he be the last #and for the record: the idea that art should be intellectually inaccessible to non-artists is a concept rooted in classism #ergo any art that aims to dismantle violent capitalism and combat class based oppression #really cannot be ‘beyond’ the understanding the layman #by the nature of its design #final conclusion: banksy is shit (via)

I’ve seen people commenting on and critiquing it from an art perspective, so we run in different circles maybe? 

like, I can give you the five hundred words about why every time i see something of Banksy’s i want to bang my head on something hard. 

I feel like it’s very hard to describe anything Banksy has ever done without using the word sheeple sincerely, which is why he irritates me as an artist.  He’s the guy in your freshmen college art class who does a – shit, I don’t know, a painting of a mcdonald’s as a church with ronald mcdonald hanging out little cups of pepsi for communion for his first project, y’know? 

and then the professor says hm i think this is a solid idea but have you considered expanding it maybe?  because they’re too polite to say oh gooooooooooooood

and the freshman art dude says no no, you don’t get it, see, the mcdonald’s is a church.  because today, in america, people idolize fast food and convenience over god or morality, not that i believe in any sky fairies myself, let me tell you about the flying spaghetti monster

and everyone in the entire class is silently screaming shut UP JOSH

and the next project he does is a painting of the statue of liberty, but fat, or wearing low rise jeans instead of robes?  and the psychic energy of twenty-eight full grown adults thinking shut up shut up shut up can’t even touch him, he’s going to spend all semester doing this and oh god what if you ever get assigned to give feedback on his work, what are you going to say?  if you express any criticism whatsoever he will assume you don’t “get it” and explain it to you for about a hundred days and you will have to stab yourself with a paintbrush to escape

fuck.  where was I?  anyways.  banksy is the spirit of That Art Dude, and dismaland is the spirit of The Semester You Got Stuck in that Art Class with the Art Dude. 

EDITED TO ADD:

i wrote all that, and then I googled images of banksy’s art just to reassure myself that I wasn’t being too harsh, and immediately found his piece on the Mona Lisa holding a rocket launcher. 

like.  the problem is not that BANKSY is too INTELLECTUAL and his pieces are too COMPLICATED for pleb minds, okay?  it’s the mona fucking lisa with a gun, EVERYONE GETS IT. 

Banksy is a bad smug artist, and I’m a big fan of contemporary art so…