Fan art

I love bad drawings of celebrities. Whether done by children or fully fledged adults who should have known better, i am always fascinated to see peoples' artistic interpretations of their heroes. It's almost like their eyes scanned the image in, their brains processed it, and their fingers acted like the ink jet printer and shat out some fucked up version of Tupac or who ever it's supposed to be. When you first lay your eyes on the sketch it's like seeing someone you kind of recognise but don't know where from, giving you the added bonus of a guess who game. I'm always left thinking the world must look so fucking bizarre through their eyes if they think this portrait makes any kind of sense.

Why is it that when people love a celebrity, they get an urge to draw them anyway? What are they trying to achieve? And then, they take the whole process a step further and upload the master piece onto the Internet so other people can check out their skills. I love it.

See if you can guess who these are suppose to be, answers are below.


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Answers:

1. Tupac

2. Striesand

3. Jeniffer Aniston

4. Kanye West

5. Kate Moss

6 James Blunt

7. Bradd Pitt

8. Eminem

9. Kurt Cobain

10 Goerge Clooney

11. Aaliyah

12. Pete Doherty

13. Britney Spears

Sorry if i spelt these names wrong i couldn't be bothered to look them up.

I dont like banksy...

...and i never have. I could go on for ages about the meaning behind his work, but what it boils down to for me is the fact Banksy forgot one important thing. Art is supposed to look good. By his own admission he was shit with a spray can which is why he started using stencils. If you look in any stencil graffiti book, Banksy will hands down be the worst artist in it. So his work must be all about the message, art for non-visual people. Art for people who don't really like art. That's why it has such mass appeal, in the same way James Blunt is music for people who don't really like music.
His work is like the emporers' new clothes. He can produce anything he likes and mindless fans will blindly worship him, without realising 'actually mate, that looks shit'. Maybe i have misunderstood him completely. Maybe the fact that someone who can't really create good imagery has become a successful artist sends a message to the fans who think, look someone who is as crud as me can do it. Maybe they like the cheeky messages and don't really care about the way it looks or the level of skill involved. People seem to feel they HAVE to like this artist if they are to fit in with, or show that they belong to any part of related culture. It's quite ironic that they do not question this appreciation for Banksy's art when the very nature of his work is asking us to question our surroundings.

I hear rumours that he has now become another Damien Hirst with legions of oompa-loompah style helpers doing his work for him. Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole art terrorist point of his work anyway?

Even his logo is shit.

This blogger thing is not allowing me to upload an image right now, so i can't attach a relevant picture by the artist to illustrate my point, but does anybody actually care that they haven't seen a Banksy piece.