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No one knew this, but Banksy made the frame so that it could shred (cut up) part of the picture. For his latest joke, Banksy took one of his most famous pictures, “Girl With Balloon” and put it in a special frame. This success has not made Banksy less playful. In recent years, these paintings have sold for more and more money. And he made fun of people who pay a lot of money for art.īut Banksy has re-created some of his famous street art into paintings which can be sold. He thinks street art should stay in the street. One of Banksy’s art pieces that was cut out of a wall sold for almost $1 million. (Source: michaelpickard, via .)Īs Banksy became more popular and more famous, some people began to cut his art work out from the walls where he painted it so they could sell it. He was able to sneak it into the British Museum in London. One trick that Banksy likes to play is to put his own work on display in museums.īanksy created this fake cave painting of an early human with a shopping cart. He is famous for sneaking his own artworks into museums and putting them next to the museum’s real art works. Sometimes his work makes a joke out of things on the walls where he paints them.Īs a street artist, Banksy seems to dislike the idea of more serious art. Banksy’s paintings are usually funny, or mix things that are funny and sad. For example, he turned a large “Parking” sign into a sign that simply said “Park” and showed a girl on a swing. Sometimes his artworks make a joke out of something found on the walls where he paints them. Sometimes they mix something funny with something sad. It is against the law, but Banksy’s work was so good and so unusual that soon people wanted to have his art on their walls.īanksy’s paintings are often funny. He created works of art by spraying paint onto walls of buildings that did not belong to him. (Source: Scott Lynch, via Wikimedia Commons.)īanksy began as a street artist. This is called “graffiti”, and it’s against the law.īut Banksy’s work was so good that soon people wanted his art on their walls. Banksy began as a street artist, spraying paint onto buildings. He created a picture that shredded itself after it was sold for $1.4 million.īanksy is the name used by an English artist who has become famous over many years by creating unusual works of art. The artist Banksy has played a huge joke on an art collector.