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No , he didn't vandalise Nighthawks. Some of the Crude Oils were reinterperations of well known paintings, others were "vandalised" paintings.They were just flea market paintings to which he added his own touches. For example:www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/guantanemo.html

Asger Jørn did it too in the 60's. It's a classic situationist statement of detournement

Hi All, particularly moderators,

Wast just going through all the original canvases and noticed that you have got all the Crude Oils paintings apart from the really small one of the bloke with an egg on his face. How could you miss it :-)

Also, I know this is petty, but you have named the 'Tomato Soup' canvas 'Tomato Sauce' in the Originals section ;-)

Youo could have a, 'Whats Wrong With Us' thread like they do in magazines. People can point out where you've gone wrong, tut.

Retro, can you imagine a thread called 'What's wrong with us' , they'd need a massive server for each member alone ! the 'I'm mad me I am thread' :-) can weed make you see things in the white bits of the computer screen or is my screen really crawling with bugs ? :-)

i love the fact that they kept it up and gave it a name tag etc.

good work to mr eggs and good work to banksy's people for letting it stay.

Fantastic

I'd like a look Retro, thanks

Lol...

Cheers Mono

lol now had I received that last night would have been worried ;-)

Don't quote me, but I imagine they are reproductions of the originals on canvas which he then bought and vandalised.

For a lot of the vandalized paintings, the originals were simply essentially-unknown works purchased from flea markets and then 'updated', such as "CCTV" or the one with the Guantanamo Bay Prisoner. For the 'remixed classics' however, I think he did the repros himself (as opposed to getting a repro that was exactly like the original work and then bastardizing it). If you look at "Crude Oils", the general color tones are very different from the Vettriano original. Couldn't have been a repro to begin with, 'cos if it was, then the repro would have remained as true to the original image in these aspects to begin with (otherwise it wouldn't be called a 'repro'), and the result would have appeared a lot gloomier. Thus, the whole thing was probably been painted from scratch, presumably by Banksy. Same goes for "Show me the Monet", the color tones are quite different from Monet's original, so it was probably not 'vandalized' but instead composed from scratch. Ditto for "Sunflowers from the Gas Station".

So I think the best answer to your question is "some he did from scratch, some he 'vandalized'". At least, judging from the products, this conclusion would seem most intuitive. An educated guess, anyway The only sure way to find out would be to examine the actual paintings, but they're obviously very much inaccessible.

if you went to the crude oils show or can find a pic of it Im pretty sure all the paintings on the left as you go in were from scratch.............

Does this help???

Show me the monet, Sunflowers from the gas station, Kate etc

Hey guys,

Just seen this on eBay.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&item=230007643290&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3APIC&rd=1

I know its not genuine, and it doesn't claim to be. However, the Banksy Crude Oil is one of favourite pieces and I can only assume that I'll never be able to have a copy as he only did one ?

Anyway, I really fancy this as I love the image but I dont really wanna buy a rip off of Banksy... is it likely that he will ever release this picture for sale?