Very little is known about Bansky because he does his art work discretely.
Banksy started his art career in 1992, where he was in a freehand graffiti group in Bristol, called DryBreadZ Crew.
Banksy's real name is still unknown, but there are rumours that his real name is Robert Banks or Robin Gunningham.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
This is one of his artworks outside of Bethlehem.
I like this artwork because it shows a highwall and he has painted a crack/hole into the wall and it is showing paradise on the other side.
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Lee Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring. he was born on 17th March 1969 and died on Febuary 1st 2010 (he died at the age of 40).
McQueen was an openly gay fashion designer, he told his family when he was 18 and, after a rocky period, they accepted his sexuality.
He had some very famous clients, such as Prince Charles and Mikhail Gorbachev.
McQueen's accomplishments included being one of the youngest designers to achieve the title "British Designer of the Year", which he won four times between 1996 and 2003.
McQueen was found dead at his apartment in London by his housekeeper. McQueen, who had been diagnosed with mixed anxiety and depressive disorder, took an overdose prior to hanging himself. Before he committed suicide he left a written request asking for his pets to be looked after, "Look after my dogs, sorry, I love you, Lee."
http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/
from looking at some of his designs you can tell he is very different from all the other fasion designers, he has his on unique style in which no one else really has.
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Andy Warhol was born 6th August 1928 and died on Febuary 22nd 1987 (aged 58), he was known for his paintings and film making.
He was a Ruthenian Cathlic, Warhol made almost 100 different variations of the last supper.
Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration.
At the age of 40 Andy was shot by Valerie Solanas who was a radical feminist, she said that Warhol "had too much control over my life." The attack had a profound impact on Warhol and his art.
Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987 aged 58, dying in his sleep from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia.
http://www.warhol.org/
These are my favourite paintings by Andy Warhol because they are both of world wide superstars and they are colourful and different.
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Georgia O'Keeffe was born 15th November 1887 and died on 6th March 1986 (aged 98). she became a famous artist from his paintings of flowers.
O'Keeffe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. In 1907, she attended the Art Students League in New York City, where she studied under William Merritt Chase. In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot.
In 1972 Georgia started to lose her eyesight so she stopped oil painting and then continued with her pencil and charcoal art work until 1984.
O'Keeffe became increasingly frail in her late 90s. She moved to Santa Fe in 1984, where she died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.
http://www.georgia-okeeffe.com/
these style of paintings is how Georgia became a famous artist, painting flowers just like these.
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Roy Lichtenstein was born 27th October 1923 and died 29th September 1997 (aged 73). His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style.
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York into an upper-middle-class Jewish New York City.
n 1960, he started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the University.
Lichtenstein's painting Torpedo...Los! sold at Christie's for $5.5 million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums.
n 1996 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. became the largest single repository of the artist's work when Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and 2 books.
http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/
These are examples of some of his work, and you can easily tell that his work is inspired by comics/cartoons.
