Cody and Banksy

Banksy calls himself a “quality vandal.” I tend to disagree, for what he does is generally considered art. The act of creating these pieces is more as “art” than Duchamp’s work by a large portion of the society. Graffiti is one of the newer fads in the gallery world and Banksy is doing the same thing. He lets his humor and antics guide his actions into the art world and by the amount of press he’s gained, it seems to be working. I picture a man in a phony beard with quite a smirk on his face for his behavior.
The gallery world is very pretentious at times, going to lengths to even purposefully make the viewer feel small with towering white ceilings and walls. This directly relates to Marx and his theories, where the “art world” becomes the bourgeoisie and all the struggling artists transform into the labor class. Banksy is just taking his comical stand about the prejudice of exhibitions in large museums. That would be the intellectual spin on things. This guerilla style has been done for a number of years by other artists who feel they have a right to display their pieces. Banksy does the same as any other guerilla or graffiti artist, he just aims higher.