Category: Art

There are almost as many myths and legends about him as there are about Shakespeare. Well, that may sound a bit exaggerated, but for years half the world has been trying to figure out who has his finger on the spray can. His paintings are primarily characterized by criticism of our Society and have the status of true works of art. Anyone who sees a real Banksy or – even better – even has one on the wall of his house, is a huge lucky guy. Rumors about his identity, which the artist keeps top secret, make the rounds again and again – but no one knows who he really is. Until now!

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“All the achievements of contemporary artistic genius from Cézanne to Picasso — the product of the ultimate in freedom, strength and human feeling – have been received with insults and repression. We believe that it is mere idiocy and folly to reduce modern art, as some desire, to a fanaticism for any particular religion, race or nation.”

“These were the searing words of a group of 37 Cairo-based artists and thinkers known as Art and Liberty in their manifesto ‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ (1938). At the time, totalitarianism and repression was on the rise across Europe.”

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