Banksy

Graffiti artist Banksy was already doing graffiti when he was 14 years old.Now he sells copies of his graffiti to actors and pop star.But a lot of his work disappears immediately because a lot of cities remove graffiti in 24 hours.Banksy is anonymous because graffiti is a crime and his parents don't know that he's a graffiti artist.Banksy's art has a political dimension.He uses graffiti to attack the elitist status of art and he paints modern version of famous works of Monet and Vincent Van Gogh.Banksy want to give the animals "a voice" and writes messages on the walls in zoos.An other example of his controversial work is segregation wall in Palestine.Banksy puts his pictures in famous museum and galleries like in the British Museum in London.He put there a "primitive cave drawing".