{"id":15538,"date":"2019-07-16T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:43:26","slug":"1672019-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/1672019-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy is the Brits\u2019 favourite painter of all time &#8211; is this status deserved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The secretive stenciller is no Rembrandt \u2013 but a new poll shows that \u2018high art\u2019 alienates the public more than any other cultural form<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\">T<\/span><\/span>he anthropologist Marcel Mauss believed gift-giving is at the heart of human interaction. He might have seen the success of Banksy as proof, for Banksy is nothing if not giving. You never know when he might leave <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jan\/18\/banksy-artwork-garage-wales-sold-six-figure-sum\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a mural on a garage wall in south Wales<\/a> or <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/apr\/26\/london-extinction-rebellion-mural-is-a-banksy-says-expert\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">in support of Extinction Rebellion<\/a>. And as Mauss predicted, these gifts are reciprocated &#8211; in this case with a love that passeth all understanding. I don\u2019t just mean he\u2019s more popular than <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/damienhirst\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Damien Hirst<\/a> or <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/grayson-perry\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Grayson Perry<\/a>. According to a poll reported in the Sun, the secretive stenciller is <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/9507075\/banksy-britains-fa\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">\u201cBrits\u2019 favourite painter of all time<\/a> &#8230; beating greats such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt and Monet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is a vote that says more about us than it does about those dead artists. A meaningful comparison between Banksy and Van Gogh can only be made a century or so from now when he is part of history. Will his works endure as Van Gogh\u2019s do? That is the only test of greatness in art. And it is one Banksy is unlikely to meet simply because his art is so pointed and current. In 100 years, will his <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jul\/01\/vest-designed-by-banksy-worn-by-stormzy-glastonbury-the-banner-of-a-divided-nation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">union flag stab-proof vest worn by Stormzy at Glastonbury<\/a> be anything more than a relic of pop history? Seems unlikely. But you can look at Rembrandt\u2019s portrait of his lover Hendrickje Stoffels and her eyes pierce your soul, more than 300 years after artist and model died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The mystery is why this needs saying. We discriminate all the time between what works for us, now, and what constitutes an enduring monument of humanity. I really enjoy Stranger Things but you would laugh if I claimed the Duffer Brothers are greater dramatists than Sophocles. Yet somehow it is not risible to claim Banksy\u2019s flat, crude images, which take a second to assimilate, are richer and more satisfying artworks that an infinitely subtle drawing by Leonardo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What this poll really tells us is that \u201chigh art\u201d alienates the public more than other cultural forms. Crowds hang on Shakespeare\u2019s words at the Globe. But art museums and \u201cexperts\u201d are terrible at communicating the human power of great art. From Antiques Roadshow to Sotheby\u2019s \u2013 a lot of talk seems motivated by money anyway. Even Leonardo is now tainted with money madness, since <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2017\/nov\/16\/salvator-mundi-leonardo-da-vinci-most-expensive-painting-ever-sold-auction\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">his Salvator Mundi set a world record at auction<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Then along comes an artist who, just as one of his paintings is sold at Sotheby\u2019s, <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/oct\/13\/shredded-banksy-was-sothebys-in-on-the-act\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">triggers a hidden shredder that destroys it before the eyes of the art world<\/a>. Banksy is no Rembrandt, but you have to love him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\/www.theguardian.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretive stenciller is no Rembrandt \u2013 but a new poll shows that \u2018high art\u2019 alienates the public more than any other cultural form The anthropologist Marcel Mauss believed gift-giving is at the heart of human interaction. He might have seen the success of Banksy as proof, for Banksy is nothing if not giving. 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