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    Gas Mask Boy, 2009 - Banksy Explained

    What does the meadow symbolize in gas mask boy?
    In Gas Mask Boy, the meadow’s immaculate pictorial qualities sit in stark contrast to the remainder of the composition. They suggest notions of hope and escapism — forming an impossible daydream that all other visual elements eventually force back into reality. Left: Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music, 1965, directed By Robert Wise.
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    'If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask.' —Banksy The anonymous street artist, painter, and social activist Banksy has shaken up the art world with his distinctive oeuvre characterised by dark humour, satire and political commentary. Inspired by the thriving street art scene in his home city of Bristol, Ban...

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    'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.' —BanksyParticularly poignant in the present work, the gas mask has been a recurring symbol in Banksy’s iconography. Evidently a tool to disguise his likeness (Banksy has, to this day, still not been visually identified), the mask furthermore contains fringe associations that transform ...

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    Piercing through Banksy’s trademark use of greyscale (which, in public installations frequently incorporates the white or grey hue of the wall itself), the meadow projected onto the surface of the young boy’s mask in the present work features the most vibrant of blues, greens, and yellows, rendering an idealised image of sky and land. The chromatic...

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    Drawing on recognisable visual imagery, Banksy subverts icons of cultural fantasy and products of capitalism to uncover disquieting truths regarding globalisation, exploitation and the mass media’s normalisation of violence. The elusive artist’s stealthy presence has not stopped him from becoming a global phenomenon. Hijacking some of the world’s m...

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