is this banksy?
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Posted Feb 25, 2021, 9:03 AM UTC
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Banksy has no plans for the foreseeable future to release artworks on the blockchain. Pest control told me that directly via email.
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Its scam
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I mean banksy pretty much stole the rat from another graffiti artist. So no
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French artist aka ‘Le Rat’
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Very interesting. I'm quite a Banksy fan and the style and everything matches perfectly. I did a quick image reverse search and didn't find these two artworks. Of course that doesn't *prove* anything.
After doing a bit of reading and considering the other comments here, it seems that he's denied it being him.
But then again, what if that OpenSea Banksy was actually Banksy but he decided not to tell us he is Banksy and let us think we were rugged by a fake Banksy. Wouldn't that be such a typical Banksy move?
I also found this article discussing pseudo-Banksy art. When the art is appropriated, the concept may make the art more valuable in the fine art realm. So even if it's not him, this doesn't make those NFTs necessarily worthless ripoffs:
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But would Banksy actually use his name to his pseudo personalities?
I know his style was never confirm what he’s about to do is Banksy, but would he have denied it?
But then again, it would be a very Banksy thing to do.
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He often uses the pseudonym Pest Control, but not always. He once sold his original artwork anonymously for 10$ a piece at a flea market to unsuspecting people. So to open up a random account and sell NFTs sounds a lot like Banksy.
Officially he has denied that he put out any NFTs, but hey that doesn't mean anything.
Either was, the two NFTs I bought, although the style was spot on, turned out to be plagiarism. Which is fine with me. I knew this would probably happen and I am just experimenting with NFTs.
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I think it's a copy cat, OpenSea isn't very well know to the public – this is the first I've seen of it – and his work is usually very public or likely to generate a lot of PR.
There's no real message behind this work too, or at least a message behind why he would sell items. So I'm calling it a copy-cat or someone piggy backing off his style.
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Ofcourse it isnt. A real artist realizes that nft art is impossible and a money grab. It will prob fuck up your reputation forever
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nft art is impossible
why?
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There is no significant connection between the token and the art
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The token proves the genuineness/originality of the art. What other connection do you expect?
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No connection. An artwork is an artwork not a token representing an artwork. Just like foto of an artwork could have a similar aesthetic value but is not the same thing as the artwork
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Someone anti ownership, hoarding, and status is gonna mint NFTSs? Lmfaoooo
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No, it's not Banksy, it's obviously a scam. But it's also curious someone who's a multi-millionaire through aggressively marketing their anti establishment brand is "anti ownership". Why didn't he give it all away then?
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“You don’t like capitalism and yet you participate in it. Curious”
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We all participate for a lack of choice. There is a difference between participating and being a driving force. Have you seen what his pieces sell for? The art market is a huge playground for the mega wealthy, they buy this stuff as investments and then leave it locked up in some storage facility in a tax havens like Singapore or Luxembourg. See for example the "Geneva Freeport". You should look into this, might change your opinion.
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You very much missed the point
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Well its not as though its style isnt easilly reproducible. The only reason people think Banksy is all that and a back of crack os because Christina Aguilera bought some of its art once and people fomod. The work is interesting... but so is spray paint art... and every chain smoker out there thinks they’re creating something unique every time they make another “planet” painting.
Art is fine but the art world is conceded and dumb.
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266 dollars one item, a price who allow most people to get one, and 900 available .. it's a scam.
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The link is not working, seems that whatever you were trying to post was removed?
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No. It's a scam
Found Banksy.