Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

That Banksy is brilliant! Thanks fc. I'm not sure my American friends will get Banksy or know who he is (iykwim), but I'd love that on a tea towel, or on a poster on the wall.

He was in New York the other week, selling his pictures for $20 from a market stall... didn't get many takers.

I'd not part with $20 for one of them if I'd walked past.

He's been promoting there in Oct/Nov, so they might know who he is ...

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

That Banksy is brilliant! Thanks fc. I'm not sure my American friends will get Banksy or know who he is (iykwim), but I'd love that on a tea towel, or on a poster on the wall.

...doesn't matter if they don't know of him (but he is known in the US too) but the slogan is just so perfect in every way.
It always makes me smile ....


My old Dad popped up to see the on going destruction of our house yesterday and I showed him the Ebay poster and he loved it too....and he doesn't 'do' popular culture in any or form) and he wants me to do a mini canvas for his downstairs loo.


You can get a load of jpegs on google images but the res may not be high enough.
This is the ebay guy I bought from (very good service with free stickers too). Very good quality poster but would need framing.


www.broomsticker.co.uk and for 10% off put in code GoodReturn

fc123

...this site looks good for tea towels and all sorts of jpeg gifts. All UK made too and 24hour turnaround.


http://www.photoimageart.co.uk/shop/personalised-photo-tea-towels/prod_77.html


I will be booking some tomorrow I think , several gifts now sorted (!)

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

He was in New York the other week, selling his pictures for $20 from a market stall... didn't get many takers.

I'd not part with $20 for one of them if I'd walked past.

He's been promoting there in Oct/Nov, so they might know who he is ...

awwww, but good for him. Everything he does makes a 'point'.


I will try to find the story of the guys who woke up one morning to find one on their building and , I think, cut it out and tried to sell it for 350k...and Banksy wouldn't authenticate it.
They destroyed their building in the process. I could have got the story wrong so I will go find it later.


His art is for everyone hence he has no issue with people selling prints etc.


. I sort of like the one below but find it a bit depressing so I wouldn't have it on view anywhere near me

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

His art is for everyone hence he has no issue with people selling prints etc.

Didn't know that.

fc123

'' "Slave Labour", a 2012 mural depicting a child making union flag bunting and regarded as a critical social commentary on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, prised from the wall of a Poundland shop in Wood Green, Haringey, North London in 'mysterious circumstances' on 13 February 2013. An attempt to sell it in the USA 10 days later, at the Fine Arts Auction Miami art house on 23 February, was halted at the last minute after Haringey residents began a campaign for its return.[8] ''

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A Banksy mural which was removed from the wall of a north London shop, causing outrage among residents, reportedly sold last night for more than £750,000.
Slave Labour, the Bristol-born urban artist’s swipe at the Queen’s golden jubilee, was a huge draw for art collectors at the auction in the basement of the London Film Museum in Covent Garden.
And after the three-and-a-half hour silent auction, Sincura Group, which was showing the piece, said it had received three bids topping the £750,000 mark.


The mural had been stencilled by the enigmatic artist on to the wall of Poundland in Wood Green, although it has never been officially authenticated by Banksy.


While the store’s owners, Robert Davis and Leslie Gilbert, of Wood Green Investments based in Woodford Green, Essex, might be legally free to do what they wish with the painting, residents and Haringey council were disgusted by its removal in February, especially as it appeared at an auction in Florida weeks later.


Tony Baxter, director of Sincura, said: ‘We know the sale of this Banksy has caused great controversy. We’ve done our due diligence and there is no legal issue.


My quote box isn't working but this was the pic

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Didn't know that.

bit of Wiki cut and paste below




Banksy
Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.[2] According to author and graphic designer, Tristan Manco, and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England.[3] The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher, but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s."[4]








Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls, even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.[8] Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie," made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[9] The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010.[10] In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

That Banksy is brilliant! Thanks fc. I'm not sure my American friends will get Banksy or know who he is (iykwim), but I'd love that on a tea towel, or on a poster on the wall.

Ooh. I like that too. And I have plenty of walls to fill...

Spirit_2

Some piccies (if this works).

Including a favourite wooden rocking horse christmas dec - from our first tree 30 years ago.
http://s1274.photobucket.com/user/Spiritbeth/slideshow/

neverdespairgirl

fc123 wrote: »

It's this one

I've driven past that several times on my way back from my parents' house in Kent, and it's made me giggle every time.