Bambi destorys a banksy and she gets trashed. Banksy destroys a banksy and gets praised.

Just saying...

Comparing the paint splatters, under/over spray and other marks, it very much looks like the piece was genuinely shredded and not just hidden with a clever trick.

Not much different then the rauschenberg. No?

I agree it's different. But the posts above were comparing this banksy to the rauschenberg. That's how the Bambi relates.

Interesting idea about destruction. Is destroying your own work (banksy) > then destroying the work of another? (Rauschenberg, Bambi)

Sure the where and how matters. But that's another topic that many seem to be given the banksy a slide...

Man was Bambi ahead of the mark... Well behind rauschenberg but ahead of banksy? 😂😆

Not that valuable considering the fact you could pick up a flags for £350/£400 at the time.

He knows that.

But this artwork is now worth double no?

So banksy didn't destroy anything...

she is floating around in standard gravity, while showing off her ruby red lipstick (as you do) and carrying an old kodak instamatic and 2 little red sink plungers. 

I think she maybe a plumber? off to do some plumbing while singing an old Sinatra song with subtitles


Brilliant, just brilliant, love a bit of Bambi

This is actually a good point.
He didn't destroy any artwork, he actually completed the artwork. The "destruction" was the art, not the painting. Discuss

I think you need to read through the thread I posted earlier, on the comparison not to Rauschenburg but to Yves Klein. Gagosian posted a comparison of this piece to Rauschenburg that was critiqued In the twitter thread. I don't see the relationship to rauschenburg or any direct relationship to what his conceptual approach was to destroying the dekooning.

What Banksy did was not in any way associated with the same concept, other than a work being destroyed. There are no similarities in approach IMO. Also when entering this discussion with Raushenburg you are entering a new arena with which to compare their work with. The canon of those artists has already been discussed and documented at length in theory and concept. I like the comparison to Klein little better. "The staging of the economic value of a work of art through its destruction was much more aptly revealed - and parodically caricatured - in Yves Klein’s “Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility” piece".

In this piece actual destruction of the work completed the work. In Banksy case the destruction of the work leaves a work of art still. Destruction is not realized completely, it is only another evolution of the work of art. It actually gains value versus losing value. Which to me is why we cant compare artists like Klein and Rauschenburg to this work, as Banksy seems to want to keep this work intact.

These other artists actually set out to destroy something, whereas Banksy sets out to create a spectacle and create a new work. You can see the artist creating also an aesthetic new work with how and where the work stopped shredding. This seems to be a calculated rendering of a new image that keeps the original image still in focus. The work was never shredded completely falling to the floor. Its calculated ending is like a painter or sculpture using composition as tool, more than I see him using a purely conceptual approach. But this new work is just as commercially traceable as the original and thus no destruction took place only transformation. Maybe compare him to another artist, but not Rauschenburg.

For those aruging this is some conceptual genius of destorys to create more valuable artwork.

Why is banksy making his art more valuable to the elite buyers of his work that he supposively dispises? And doing so for the biggest auction house in the world which he also supposively dispises?

I guess there’s no point in championing the causes you believe in without the funds to do it. If you sell a piece to a wealth collector you can take that money and help the people that you think are deserving of that wealth.

I guess if I were a multi millionaire and wanted a piece of Banksy artwork... I wouldn’t care what names you called me. I’m sure I’d get over it by relaxing on a sun lounger in the Maldives.