Urban Art Association

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God help us. 

At - At walker with giant adidas shell toes sneakers on…. oh hang on, i'm trying to make up uber rubbish and somebody already went and did it.
You actually cant make it up anymore.

TURDSTY BARSTURD

Not a talented artist, more an Art Director in advertising and marketing, where it is all about "the sell" and ideas are nicked and repurposed as a general rule. I think guys like this see an opportunity to try to get a quick fake entry at what they perceive to be the cooler kids table - yet they don't realize it is actually the nerds done good table.

No soul. Name sucks also. Eliminating vowels was so 10 years ago.

I don't think when Banksy did Kate Moss in the style of the famous Warhol Marilyn it was a case of copying.
I'm fairly sure he knew that people knew the original image well enough to recognise he was either subverting it or updating it with a new "icon".

I was about to write that he left Warhol there and didn't continue to imitate his art, but then remembered he did Soup Cans too! haha

There's lot of almost copy/paste... Liechtenstein/DFace, Haring/Banksy, Warhol/Banksy... But I also face it as an inspiration.

In my opinion they get something from the older artist and apply some new and original view and style.

Of course that some pieces looks more copy than others, but again as much talked about in this forum, art is something very individual.

And I think that's the great thing on arts.

Mr. Brainwash doesn't mean nothing for me, but can be great for someone else.

There will always be a discussion about this....

to me, if the images were executed well it doesn't matter what the subject matter is. the problem is they weren't, they were poorly vectorized using the live trace feature in adobe illustrator. Just look at the paint drips on the Ewok... ever seen paint drips with sharp angles and lines? That's an unfortunate side effect from live trace which should have been cleaned up. The original laugh now image has softer lines and some overspray from the stencil, all of which are missing from the ewok. If you're going to mimick/parody other art then make sure it's perfectly executed.

i agree, neither case should be considered a "rip off" because they aren't. They are parodies (or homages as you mentioned) of other works. In neither case are the artists claiming, or passing off, the ideas, or styles, are their own.

Hard to say, subjective arguments are what they are, but I think the forum is largely in agreement over the over-use of Star Wars imagery.

I do see a difference, a big difference and i'll attempt to explain my own personal take on this which does of course not make it fact but rather subjective.
First of all when Banksy did Kate Moss, although it wasn't actually him but thats another conversation, there had been a gap of decades and in that time enough rest space for a new icon to come along and serve some relevance in terms of comparison, ie being held a loft as a 'new' so and so, celebrated, canonised and then demonised in and by the media.
Here today, gone tomorrow, celebrities have their day in the spotlight, fall from grace and bounce back again or not as the case may be.
Using Kate was clever, witty even, a British icon offered up by another, a prankster in the great tradition of pop and agit prop.
To simply come out of nowhere, literally nowhere with no history or lineage and start hashing up weak and meaningless riffs on Star Wars pictures is just garbage and the stuff of every high school art room project for the last 10 years or so. It has been done and done to death, and in this case particularly badly!
Images thrown together for the sake of trying to be popular or funny or whatever the hell he is trying so desperately to be just leaves me cold.
Just my opinion but we are in danger of going down a dead end with this high contrast black and white photo tracing nonsense, I correct that, we have ALREADY gone way too far down that back alley and its become a very easy to dismiss and pigeonhole urban flash in the pan.
All of the lookalikes and wannabes will fade away having made a quick buck and leave their owners with a tacky collection of bad art that should be gracing the digital canvas sin bin of high street tat shops such as the Works.

I think the difference is Banksy was already established on his own artistic merits. When one great artist pays homage to another, it's a compliment.

That's not the case with what you posted here. This guy relies entirely on Banksy's creativity. That, in my opinion, is not art.

I think it's also interesting that he chose artists who were initially mocked by the art establishment and later became pillars of that establishment. It's almost as if he were sending a message about how he would later be perceived.

I was always partial to Star Trek. I'd love to see Data hugging a bomb or Geordi with a paint can.