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Banksy Shouldn't Be Punished Because It's Art

TheConductorTheConductor
edited 2011-04-25 03:23:34 in General
Erm, what? I've heard this statement a whole bunch of times and it doesn't sit right with me. Banksy defaces people's property, there is no reason what soever that he can't do his paintings on canvasses LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Or Hell, do them on his own damn wall.

I mean, if I killed a bunch of children, ripped all their bones out and used them to make sculptures, then I would rightly imprisoned, no? Well not if I call it art!
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  • GelzoGelzo
    edited 2011-04-25 03:27:56
    Pony Sleuth
    Jesus, dude.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.visualarts
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    "Graffiti is a victimless crime!"

    One assumes you're not the shopkeeper or building owner having to remove ugly images that would look just as "good" on paper as brick, then.

    It's fucking vandalism, and should be done on your own property, not somebody else's. If I'm sitting on a train reading a paper, you don't have the right to reach underneath me and start drawning on the other side of it. I'm quite sure there's a similar, better analogy I can make based on the same idea.
  • BobBob
    edited 2011-04-26 22:01:44

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    [Reason: Shitpost, Inappropriate image (?)]



  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    You were just waiting to post that.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Fuck that's hot.
  • BeholderessBeholderess
    Well, graffiti is vandalism, so if the wall in question belongs to someone, it is far from victimless.

    People are free to paint whatever they want on their own walls or if they have an owner's permission.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    His art would simply not have worked anywhere else but on other people's buildings. But we can't let him go free because of that. Laws should be enforced consistently.
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    He's perfectly entitled to take up architecture, create some buildings, and vandalise them to his heart's content. Otherwise it's no different from claiming theft to be art if you do an interpretive dance to get past security.
  • BeholderessBeholderess
    The law should indeed be enforced consstently. No exceptions for "art" and so on.

    Even though this one would pay to see that:

    Otherwise it's no different from claiming theft to be art if you do an interpretive dance to get past security.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    ITT: by-the-book lawfuls with no regard for humour or common sense
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-04-25 12:38:04
    000
    ^^^ It would be much cheaper at that point to vandalize buildings and pay the fines.
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    I've plenty regard for humour, but deface property that has fuck all to do with you and I will ensure you're arrested and forced to clean it up. Or is this a case where the victims of crime are in the wrong because they don't "get it" and their minds are too constrained to accept the brilliance of the vandal's crappy drawings?
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-04-25 12:42:07
    Because you never know what you might see.
    I think Banksy's art is pretty good, but YMMV I guess.

    I remember there was some funny graffiti near here.  Somebody painted a carousel onto a traffic roundabout just down the road from here.  Then the council painted over it because they are boring sods.
  • BonSequiturBonSequitur
    As a petty and vindictive person, I have to take extra steps not to appear petty and vindictive.
    Around here, graffiti art on public spaces and unused buildings is pretty much sanctioned.

    Besides, I don't think very many people nowadays are pressing vandalism charges when they get a Banksy stencil on their wall.
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    Around here (Glasgow) people often don't push charges if they get stabbed. Doesn't mean people should protest when charges are levelled.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Wait, I thought the whole "everybody gets stabbed in Glasgow" thing was a joke? 
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    Depends whereabouts in Glasgow you're talking about really. Dennistab (Dennistoun) is much cleared up these days, being mostly students these days and The Gorbals is nowhere near the shithole it used to be. But you still need to stay the fuck out of Pollok, Easterhouse (mostly), Maryhill, Drumchapel and the like. Knife crime has always been a major problem here, and I don't see it changing.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Heh heh, Dennistab. Ironic that there are no longer many stabbings there, no? 
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    FUCK I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT GLORIOUS
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
  • inkblotinkblot
    edited 2011-04-25 13:37:24
    000
    I thought the same thing as GLORIOUS.
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    Dennistab was the Detractor Nickname only because it was one of the scuzziest parts of Glasgow for a time. Now it's pretty much obsolete, the place is perfectly safe so people don't really call it that anymore, except for nostalgia.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Wait, so it was intentionally named that?

    :( 
  • BlackHumorBlackHumor
    Banksy shouldn't be punished nor anybody else who draws on other people's walls.

    I have to say I really don't see why people care. It's not like brick looks so amazing.
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    If people want to give others permission to draw on them, that's their business. But it shouldn't be assumed in advance, because it's their property and they might have their own reasons for not wanting it painted on. Like not finding it aesthetically pleasing. Really can't see why this needs to be battered into people's skulls.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "ITT: by-the-book lawfuls with no regard for humour or common sense"

    /thread
  • Caissas_DeathAngelCaissas_DeathAngel
    My name is Addy - Caissa is the Goddess of Chess, whom I serve in my capacity as the Pawn Slayer.
    lol breaking teh law n pissing people off is fun
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Duh.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Yes. 
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