Banksy's Graffiti Work.

Banksy is a well known British graffiti artist. One of the main things i like about him is the fact that he is mysterious, he does lots of graffiti yet nobody knows who he is. He creates pieces of art wherever he wishes to on streets. I found it very hard to pick a favourite piece by him. In the end I chose the one of the rat, i found that he has done many pieces which include this rat therefore it symbolises him to me. I have always wondered why he chose a rat in so many of his pieces. It could be to represent the city at the time of the plague possibly, or to represent filth in some way. Many of his pieces of work do certainly make the country look like filth, and many of them make people look at them in an odd way, because he is giving out messages that others have too much fear to say in the first place. Banksy's graffiti work has given him an international reputation. Some of his work can be very political such as the 'One Nation Under CCTV' piece. In my mind this shows how everything in Great Britain is being watched, supposedly for a good cause, however it is invading privacy.