WORLD HISTORY

DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Banksy is known for ____
A
Terrorist attacks on Israelis
B
Building the West Bank Barrier
C
Graffiti on the border wall
D
Being prime minister of Israel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -His artwork is often satirical, combining dark humour with messages about art, philosophy, and politics. By the early 2000s, Banksy had relocated from Bristol to London, where he began to gain notoriety; but, at the same time, his international work was taking off.

Detailed explanation-2: -Banksy began producing street art in his hometown of Bristol during the early 1990s. He started working with spray paint on trains, before moving to public places around the city. Throughout his career, he has chosen to work with stencils, creating his own and using spray paint to place them on walls.

Detailed explanation-3: -He spray-painted the work on the concrete wall of an abandoned Israeli military outpost near the towering “apartheid wall” that Israel built around the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Now, the work has appeared at Israel’s Urban Gallery in an upscale neighborhood of Tel Aviv near the city’s financial district.

Detailed explanation-4: -His artwork started off as a graffiti artist whose main purpose is to deliver political, war critiques, capitalism messages to the public. Banksy later discussed other subjects such as members of the royal family, policemen, rats, apes etc… He apparently has the attitude of a rebellion.

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