Street Art INTRO and Banksy

Qualities of Good Pizza
Awful Decent Good Exceptional
● Burned or hard
crust.
● Too oily, oil
dripping down
on the plate
and you feel
greasy
afterwards.
● Too much
sauce! It makes
a mess.
● School pizza, it’s
weird, like a
bagel.
● When it’s wayyy
to thick with a
thin piece of
cheese on top.
● Burnt on
bottom and
crumbly.
● .
● Fronzen pizza,
like Digorno
● If it’s there, I’ll
eat it.
● Domino’s is
decent, but
confusing when
order at times.
● Crunchy Crust
● Stretchy
cheese, that’s
melted
● Red Baron
pizza, it’s not
fresh but it’s
thin and good.
● Thin crust but
soft.
● There’s this
place at 42nd
with no
name…it’s a bit
greasy, but not
too greasy. And
the crust is
crunchy.
● ”Little Italy” on
72nd, with the
lil’ “panko”
pieces in the
crust. The
ultimate CRISPY
experience.
● The perfect
amount of
sauce.
● .

Qualities of Good Conversation
Awful
>70
Decent
70-80
Good
80-90
Exceptional
90-100
60 seconds of
Awkward silence.
You don’t know
what to talk
about.
When someone is
left out of the
conversation.
When the person
doesn’t care, not
paying attention,
focusing on other
things.
“sure.” “fine.”
“ok.”
If nobody is
making eye
contact.
Nothing is gained
except confusion.
A basic convo. You
don’t really care
but you keep it
professional and
talk about polite
topics.
“Small Talk”
Trying to find
things to talk
about something
simple and
relatable like the
weather.
Both sides let
each other talk,
but one side
dominates the
convo.
When someone
is ranting or
venting and the
other person is
listening and
responds with
more than just
one word
answers.
If you find
some kind of
answer or
direction from
the
conversation.
You disagree
but you get a
good debate
out of it.
When all parties are involved and
enthusiastic and there’s no dull
moments.
The convo keeps going and going,
and all people participating LISTEN
and engage with each other.
All sides are open minded and more
than just two opinions are debated
and others are willing to share their
ideas.
The topic turns out to be more
intricate and complex than it
seemed at first.
You have a good debate, maybe
people are playing devil’s Advocate,
and you LEARN something from it.
You build off of other peoples’ ideas.
Mutual respect. No awkward
silences.

Who gets to decide what art gets put up in public spaces?
• WickaWicka: The people of the community should decide. They’re gonna be
walking by it and seeing it… (El Pueblo! Unido!)
• Eric: EL PUEBLO who run and take care of the public spaces. (The Stewards
of Public Space)
• The Department of Sanitation, The Department of Parks and Rec.
• JOV! It should be the community.
• Daniel: Artists Choose. They get permission or just do it themselves. You
need a permit?

Who gets to decide what art gets put up in public spaces?
• Dom: The Mayor – DeBlazz: thinking that it’s appropriate for the location,
• No profanity. Polite.
• Imani: It SHOULD be the public who decides, but the Gov’t decides, which is
odd, since it is a PUBLIC space.
• Elianny: The public, anyone who wants to get the public to see a specific
piece of art.
• Nate: Some things just shouldn’t be in the public…like negative messages
towards others. You can’t force others to see that. Everyone has to see it.
• Dom: The artist gets to decide! But the mayor decides if it’s
appropriate or not. They BOTH have to agree on it.
• Is there a TOS for public space?

Homework due on Sunday Night!
Email kozakartclass@mhshs.org
one of the following in YOUR neighborhood:
5 pictures of street art/graffiti/vandalism
OR
1-min video of you talking about street art
on location in your nabe.

Graffiti:
Breana: A form of art, um. Where you can express
yourself.
WickaWicka: It’s not on a canvas. It’s on….?
Eric: The “Canvas” for graffiti artists is...public space.
Daniel: It’s less “Professional.” It’s not “official” or “formal”
Breana: Unless you get hired for it.
Brianna: Graffiti takes a lot of time to plan, organize, and
sketch out what they’re gonna do. That IS professional.
Lauren: It may not be perceived as professional, due to
where it originated from.
Miles: BURP.

Graffiti:
Eli: A style of art
Freddie: Mostly teenagers who spray paint their
ideas on trains and walls.
Dom: It’s made with passion for the public and for
themselves.
Elianny: It’s a recreation, but also to get a message
across. (DIVERSE INTENTIONS)

“graffiti”
Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed
illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.
Stickers and other adhesives can also be considered
graffiti. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to
elaborate wall paintings.

Vandalism:
Alex: Doing something to a surface without the
consent of the owner.
Chris: Damaging someone’s property
- Egging someone’s house,
- Throwing a brick through a window, or
-Keying someone’s car.
Lauren: Vandalism isn’t causing a LOT of damage, it’s
surface level damage.
Miles: Messing with someone’s property that isn’t
yours.

Vandalism:
ELI: Alteration to something that doesn’t belong to
you.
Amanda: You “draw” on the building w/o permission
Dom:
Elly: It’s when you permanently damage someone
else’ property, usually a building.
(A notebook is not a train.)

“vandalism”
Vandalism is the behavior attributed originally to the Vandals, by the
Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of
anything beautiful or venerable. The term also includes criminal
damage such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any
property without permission of the owner.
Source: Wikipedia and Oxford Dictionary

Visigoths Sack Of Rome in 410 CE
by J.N. Sylvestre 1890
1980s PUNK band

Breaking, Looting, Smashing, Destroying.

Street Art:
Breana: Art that doesn’t happen in a secluded place, but it’s
OUTSIDE on walls, ground, etc.
Miles: Art, HUH HUH, that the public is able to see in the
street. (public art?)
Eric: Art that is created in the street, spontaneously, meant
to stay outdoors, not inside a studio.
Sara: It’s not Public Art....Statues in the park are not Street
Art. It’s something you’re probably not hired to do...but it’s
not vandalism.
.

Street Art:
Eli: To show a connection to something around you. Like if
someone tags a wall, they’re showing the connection to
place
Dom: Like the Taki183, he was connected to the heights, but
others would see it and emulate that.
Freddie: When artists get paid to do art on the street
(advertisements or murals)
Elly: Like Junior’s murals in the Bronx, I’m not sure if they got
permission or not...but the community really wanted them
to do it.

“street art”
Street art is art, specifically visual art, developed in public spaces — that is,
"in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as
opposed to government sponsored initiatives (like public art).
The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, sculpture, stencil graffiti,
Lock On´s , sticker art, Yarn-Bombing, wheatpasting and street poster art,
video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, and street installations.
Sources: Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary, kozak’s thoughts.

Why do you think vandalism,
graffiti and street art often
confused?
• Breana: They all happen outside, on
someone’s property, using the same
materials. They may “look” the same to
people.
• Lauren: Graffiti connects between
Vandalism and Street Art. Like a spectrum.
• JOV! It depends on how you look at it…Like
in Style Wars, people had negative views
towards graffiti, but the artists respected
each other.
• Miles: People don’t know the difference
between art styles.
• Britt: The INTENTIONS separate all three of
these, but they’re usually overlooked.
• .

Why do you think vandalism,
graffiti and street art often
confused?
• Dom: People think that they’re all the
same thing.
• Nate: They all come from the same
places, using the same materials, same
locations.
• Elly: It depends on the person. Some
people don’t understand “street art
culture"
• Rosandris: Same as Elly, they associate
it with destruction of property without
artistic value.
• .
• .

Lock on’s
Ghost bikes by
The NYC street Memorial Project
Tape sculptures
By Mark Jenkins
Site Specific …when the LOCATION is significant to the ARTWORK.
When art is made for a specific area, and not some other area.
and the artwork’s meaning is informed by the location

Sculptures
Banksy
Aakash Nihalani

Stickers (adhesives)
aakash nihalani
stikman

What is wheat paste?
Water, flour and sugar (and copper sulphate to make it insect resistant)
Keeps for about a month, slowly starts to yellow and decay.

Stencils
Shopping Jesus
By Banksy

• Manhattan:
– Washington
Heights: Dom
and Levy
– 110th West side
- ELI
– Harlem - Elly
• Brooklyn:
– Park Slope -
Freddie
– .
– .
• Bronx:
– Concourse
Village - Eli
– Eastchester -
Imani (secretly
Washington Heights)
– Kingsbridge –
Rosandris
– Wakefield -
Nate
• Queens:
– Jackson Heights Sums
– .
– .
• Staten??
– .
– .
– .

• Manhattan:
– Columbus Circle –
Eric
– Harlem – Chris
– West Harlem-
MILES
– Chinatown –
Lauren
– Murray Hill –
Gayathri
– UWS - Daniel
• Brooklyn:
– Sheepshead
Bay - Chris
– Park Slope –
Sara
– Greenpoint –
Corina
– Canarsie - Britt
– Brooklyn
Heights -
Yotam
• Bronx:
– Soundview -
JOV! (but much love
for 161)
– Williamsbridge
– Moh
– Morris Park –
Brianna
– Jerome Ave
(Highbridge/Co
ncourse) -
Breana
• Queens:
– Woodside – Eric
– Sunnyside – Alex
– Astoria – Araceli
– Woodside/Maspeth - Sawicka
• Staten??
– .
– .
– .

Banksy
Banksy is an anonymous and secretive street artist from Bristol,
England, but he has put up work in nearly every continent on the
planet. His work (stencils, sculptures, installations, etc) are usually
satirical, silly, and vaguely political.
Banksy’s identity has long been sought after and despite being the
most famous street artist in the world for the past 20 years, no one
has ever confirmed his actual identity.

Banksy
Diogenes
2010
D.U.M.B.O,
Brooklyn
(down
under the
manhattan
bridge
overpass)

Banksy
2010
Chinatown, San Francisco

Banksy2010
Chinatown,
San
Francisco

Museum Pranks
MUSEUM
“Banksy paints over the line between aesthetics and
language, then stealthily repaints it in the unlikeliest of places.
His works, whether he stencils them on the streets, sells them
in exhibitions or hangs them in museums on the sly, are filled
with wit and metaphors that transcend language barriers.”
-Shepard Fairey

BANKSY
MUSEUM
Hung on March 15th, 2005 ….. Removed March 16th, 2005

At the The British Museum
chalk on rock 2005

At the
Metropolitan
Museum of
Art
Oil on canvas
2005

At the
Museum of
Natural
History
mixed media
2005

And when you leave the museum, don’t
forget to….

Also in 2005….
Wall surrounding the city of Qalqilya
The West Bank barrier wall in Israel/Palestine runs for
425 miles. That’s FOURTEEN times larger than
the entire perimeter of Manhattan…
It is considered illegal by the United Nations.

Israel/Palestine Series 2005
The West Bank barrier wall in Israel/Palestine runs for
425 miles. That’s FOURTEEN times larger than
the entire perimeter of Manhattan…
It is considered illegal by the United Nations.

Israel/Palestine Series 2005
Old man: You paint the wall, you make it look beautiful.
Banksy: Thanks
Old man: We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall, go home.

Is Banksy a “political artist?”
• Miles, DA: He is. He puts these works in specific places, that makes the
viewer think about why he put it there.
• Wicka: He IS. He’s taking issues between people/governments into
consideration when he makes the work. It makes you think about how the
people in both of these places feel about the work.
• Gayathri: He’s trying to show these political issues, like the scissor cut-out
piece, is sending a message to get rid of the wall all together.
• Britt: We don’t know Banksy as a person…so we don’t really know his
intentions.
• Lauren: NAH SON. He’s not political, but he makes SOME political pieces. He
has the capability to make work about politics, but he’s just a versatile artist.
• Miles: He’s a provacateur, he likes creating emotion in his viewers.
• JOV! He gests me mad. Show your face. What are you hiding for.

BANKSY
Picasso steal
Maybe it can be funny, too…

2007
2008
2004-2010
2008-2011
2016

Better Out Than In
"There is absolutely no reason for
doing this show at all. I know
street art can feel increasingly like
the marketing wing of an art
career, so I wanted to make some
art without the price tag attached.
There's no gallery show or book or
film. It's pointless. Which
hopefully means something.” Banksy
WTC
Stencil in Tribeca
2013

If you were a street artist, would
you remain anonymous?
• Freddie: Yeah, I would remain anonymous, so I
wouldn’t get caught, since it’s illegal.
• Dom: Yep. I would be anonymous because Banksy.
He’s gained popularity through anonymity.
• Elly: Anonymity makes you more interesting.
• Eli: Also anonymous
• Imani: If you remain anonymous, you can make
SOME money….Art isn’t all about the money, but
you need some kind of “reward” for making the
work. It’s also cool to see people going crazy over
it.

If you were a street artist, would
you remain anonymous?
• Araceli: YES. I would remain anonymous. Because
people would only identify you with that one thing.
• Corina: No. I would want to be recognized for my work
and not have people trying to figure out who I am. I
wouldn’t want people stalking me.
• Breana: Anonymity, please! I don’t wanna be arrested.
(eric: yeah, my mom wouldn’t be happy)
• Daniel: Dude, it’s illegal. Stay anonymous. It’s tough to
focus on other things in life with cameras in your face.
• Miles: I would show my face. I like attention. I want
people to know if I did something cool.
• JOV! I’m in between. I wouldn’t wanna get in trouble,
but the idea of running from the cops sounds fun.

So why New York for this show?
"New York calls to graffiti
writers like a dirty old
lighthouse. We all want to
prove ourselves here,"
Banksy writes. "I chose it
for the high foot traffic
and the amount of hiding
places. Maybe I should be
somewhere more
relevant, like Beijing or
Moscow, but the pizza isn't
as good."
Banksy
The Street is in Play
Stencil in Chinatown
2013

Geishas on a Bridge
Stencil in South Williamsburg 2013

Hammer Boy
Upper West Side (79th street) 2013

Urban Beaver
Stencil in East New York Pitkin ave and Wyona 2013

Art Sale
booth in Central Park and 5th ave 2013
On day thirteen of Banksy’s NYC
residency, he clandestinely set up a
booth in central park on a warm
sunny day. He hired an older
gentlmen to sell his original
artwork for $60 or best offer.
Basically if anyone approached him
and offered a price, he would take
it. There were only four buyers for
the entire day. Most others
thought these were fakes…

Art Sale
Breana: I sometimes buy art (like at comic con). So I
might have bought one of these.
Chris: So if I bought one and wanted to sell it, I wouldn’t
even know how….facebook?
Lauren: I would have just walked past this, and then felt
bad that i missed out.
Sara: When people walk by, you assume it’s going to be
fake, Why would be selling an expensive thing for a cheap
price?? But that’s not the point, if you like the art, buy
the art!
Michelle: Adding on to Sara....I find it interesting that
Banksy touches on these social issues of BRANDING and
SOCIAL WORTH vs. FINANCIAL WORTH. Like the one
that’s shredded has CHANGED its aesthetic value, but
gained financial?? All his actions are iconic.
Miles: The only reason we talk about it is because his
name is attached to it. It’s all “conspicuous consumption.”
and attention getting.
.

Art Sale
Elly: This work rebels against the art world
people that buy/sell/profit off of work like this.
Freddie: He doesn’t seem like an artist that is
motivated by the money. He wants to pull
stunts and surprise people. Reaction>$$$
Nate: He’s showing that art shouldn’t be
exclusive…If this was at a gallery, people would
have taken it more “seriously. ”
Levy: It’s a protest against people buying his
art because he made it instead of buying it
because they actually LIKE the art.

Banksy’s residency was received with a mix of feelings from New
Yorkers. On one hand, he created a city-wide scavenger hunt for locals.
It forced graffiti art lovers to venture into neighborhoods they normally
would never visit, like a fun adventure to participate in each day for the
month of October. On the other hand, he reinforced certain attitudes
about the clash between fine art and street art, he. Banksy outright
mocked his audience with pieces like Art Sale…
According the NYC Art Critic Jerry Saltz: "He's completely
conventional, anarchy lite," says Saltz. "His images are especially
uninteresting… I mean, it's pretty pointed political messages, but
all so obvious. So obvious."

Eternity
Stencil in Woodside, Queens 69th street and 38th ave 2013

Bronx Zoo
Stencil in Highbridge (near Yankee Stadium on Jerome Ave) 2013
Buffed over about a month later…

Shoeshine
Sculpture/performance, Bronx 2013

Shoeshine
Sculpture/performance, Bronx 2013
“Thank you
for bringing
Banksy’s art
to the Bronx.
The Bronx
loves art.”
-Ruben Diaz Jr.
Bronx Borough
President

Ghetto 4 Life
Stencil on wall in South Bronx 2013
One week later…

And that’s when the crowds showed up…

What’s up, Ruben Diaz Jr.? You’ve got something to say?
“Unfortunately, hundreds of people will travel to the Bronx today
to look at a wall that says ‘ghetto’ on it. I would ask that they visit
ilovethebronx.com to learn about all the great things that are
happening in the Bronx, and I invite them to take in one of our
many cultural attractions or world-class restaurants while they are
here.
“As for Banksy, he should be aware that graffiti art and graffiti
culture originated in the Bronx. Perhaps it would be a better use
of his talents to help us tell the story of the ‘New Bronx,’ rather
than recycle outdated negative stereotypes.”
“And then, Banksy spray paints ‘Ghetto 4 Life’ on a Bronx wall, drawing those
aforementioned visitors to the Bronx to gawk and throwing a wrench in our
efforts to rebrand our borough. Many Bronxites are upset at Banksy’s choice
of words, and they are right to be upset. We are not ‘Ghetto 4 Life,’ we are a
vibrant borough of diverse communities. We are a place where people are
living the American Dream. To 1.4 million people we are home, and Banksy
would do well to remember that before he traffics in ancient stereotypes
about our borough.

Ghetto 4 Life
Stencil on wall in South Bronx 2013
What do you think
the artist’s message
is, here?
Artist Intentions vs. Viewer Interpretations

What do you think
is, here?
Artist Intentions
vs.
Viewer Interpretations
• Lauren: I don’t think Banksy’s intention was to
insult the ”Bronxites.” He wasn’t thinking (how
Graff originated in the Bronx),
• JOV! This is insulting, and Miles shouldn’t be
allowed to talk anymore, because he was
insulting the Bronx. The work is all old school
graffiti bubble letters, but he’s insulting the
Bronx.
• Miles: This is all about gentrification. The
lettering is a basic graffiti style but the figures
change the meaning of the work.
• Chris: It’s pretty cool, and meta. It messes with
peoples heads. They think it’s one thing but it
turns out to be something else. They think it’s
disrespectful, but it’s really an ironic statement
about rich white kids making graffiti
everywhere.
• Daniel: Basically, this seems like surface level
piece of art, even though there’s a hidden
meaning behind it. I don’t know what the
meaning is…but ..idk.

What do you think
is, here?
Artist Intentions
vs.
Viewer Interpretations
• Freddie: Banksy’s intention was NOT to make
people think the Bronx is “ghetto.” He was just
bringing art to the Bronx (like Diaz has
previously stated).
• Nate: This is more of a “wherever you go,
remember where you came from.” kind of
sentiment.
• Elly: This was more about rebellion towards the
art world…but people saw this completely
differently and offensive.
• Levy: The Bronx Borough Prez really
misinterpreted this. It’s kind of embarassing.
• Eli: You can still have money and be “ghetto” at
the same time. Americans have some
stereotypes about the UK as well, maybe this
message is playing with that lifestyle idea.
• Rosandris: I don’t think his itentions were that
bad, but I can see why people would get
offended with this choice of words.
• Dom: Some people might have embraced that
word, but others may feel uncomfortable.
• .

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