The subject of this painting was none other than the top model Kate Moss, painted in the manner of the famous painting of Marilyn Monroe that Warhol made a few decades ago. In 2006, Bansky sold a work for a sum a lot beyond the primary estimation. In another order of ideas, we can say that Andy Warhol’s artworks influenced very differently Banksy’s art. He is today a reference, a bright star in the artistic universe. Like Banksy, Pignon-Ernest gives powerful messages through his art, often composed of characters drawn to scale. Moreover, Ernest Pignon-Ernest installs his artworks himself, discreetly and when everyone is sleeping, during the night. Pignon-Ernest denounced prefabricated art for museums, which is annoying and dull for him. He put his painted, drawn or silk-screened works on the walls of cities and in a wide range of public places with the support of the population who defended his artworks. In the case of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, it is more about joining a mentality, a way of doing rather than producing similar works visually. Banksy admires the art of Blek le Rat, and this one does the same. Thus, Banksy paints police officers, servicemen or others, to discover then that Blek le Rat has already done it in the past. “Every time I paint something, I discover that Blek le Rat has already done it, just 20 years earlier!”. For example, the mark of Blek le Rat is a little rat made with stencils, very similar to the rats often illustrated by Banksy.

These similarities are very small but, they are palpable. We thus find Blek le Rat, French stencilist using graffiti since the beginning of the 1980s as well as Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Parisian plastic artist contributing to the urban scene for more than 30 years. Among them, artists that have been admired and that are admired to this day, people that have made a major difference in the world of contemporary art.

In general, we can say that demoralizing inspires him greatly but, in depth, we note in his works some similarities with those of other artists sharing the same vision. Banksy's inspirations Artists who obviously inspired him InfluencesĪlthough information remains very limited on this, Banksy is said to have some sources of inspiration very different.

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