England is the country of McLaren, football and of course street artist Banksy. Even though we don’t know who he or she is, you can recognize the artworks right away. Now the painter is turning London upside down again. In just eight days, he has managed to paint eight new artworks unseen. The new artworks are silhouettes of various animals. For example, we see an elephant making love to a Nissan Micra and we see two pelicans enjoying a sardine at the local fishmonger. Since last week, new artworks have been appearing in all kinds of places in the British capital. Online, things are going wild and people are speculating about what the paintings are supposed to mean.
Meaning of artworks
Despite Banksy’s desire to remain anonymous, he does like to talk to the press. Through the organization that acts as his spokesperson, Pest Control Office, he states that the artworks have no negative or activist meaning. The various murals are intended to bring some cheerfulness in this gloomy summer with a lot of negative news. Banksy emphasizes that not all of his artworks contain a political or activist opinion. With the animals, he wants to show his creative and playful side.
What’s the secret meaning behind Banksy’s latest series?
No less than eight new pieces of street art by the elusive painter and political activist have popped up around London in as many days.
Deleted & stolen
Not everyone is taking Banksy’s new gems well. Some works have already been removed at the time of writing. For example, the billboard with a cat on it has already been removed by hard workers, much to the anger of the crowd around it. deleted. It is therefore only a matter of time before the gray mouse becomes the boss in the city again and all the artworks are removed, it seems. In addition to the removal of the artworks, they are also stolen. Banksy is worth money and entrepreneurs from a different background make a sport of being the first to spot and steal the artworks. If you want to check out Banksy’s artworks, you have to be quick. There will probably be more drawings, but with Banksy that is always a bit of a wait and see.
Banksy
Below you can check out all the artworks that Banksy has created in the past eight days at the time of writing:
