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Whaaaam! 1963
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in
a distinctive stenciling technique.
His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and
bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground
scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.
Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding
member of the English musical group Massive Attack.
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•The colors of the hair-blue, red and white, which alternate with
each other four times in wave lines, are repeated throughout the
picture. The blue is redirected in the girl's eyes, the red in the
background of the picture and the white on the skin, as a hint of
the teeth in the slightly opened mouth, and on the white eye skin.
Girl With Hair Ribbon was painted by Roy Lichtenstein during a period in which he
was working with comics exclusively. He has subsequently been forever associated
with comics, and his paintings from that period are his most well-known, even though
it lasted only four years. Andy Warhol worked with comics too, but Lichtenstein,
having more fully fleshed the idea out and bringing it closer to its logical conclusion,
is more closely associated with them in the pantheon of American pop artists.
Within Lichtenstein's comics period, there was a period where he exclusively painted
close-ups of women. Girl With Hair Ribbon comes from this period. In Girl, as with
everything from that sub-period, the highly stylized beauty of the woman's face
makes for an overpowering pure femininity in the painting. However, a certain
narrative quality also pervades the painting. Even though taken out of context, the
image still retains some of the narrative qualities of the comic it was taken from. The
woman is looking out towards the viewer, with an expression that hints at longing,
pensiveness, or perhaps even fear. We the viewers are left with a tiny fragment of a
story, but a fragment nonetheless. The image, then, is not a mere portrait of
femininity, but of the affect the unseen phenomenon of the comic's original story have
on what can see in the frame.