To explain the choice of destroying his Girl with a Ballon Banksy used a phrase by Picasso, “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”. In this case, his need to destroy has meant that the value of the work has doubled.
Joey Syer, the co-founder of www.myartbroker.com, commented that the piece, now officially part of the history of world art, could now be estimated almost twice its original value, thus reaching 2 million pounds.
But Picasso also said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal”.
Granting ourselves a chance, therefore, we could define memes a form of art, obviously not the best, but still a good form of art. Universal, easily accessible to everyone, celebrating or criticizing someone or something and with its own showcase, the social networks.
These days the web has gone crazy in front of the image of the famous work of Banksy cut into dozens of strips and the most astute have not been waiting by copying his idea and imagining works of art or objects made into a thousand pieces.
So, if you scroll through your Instagram home, you might happen to see a shredded Gioconda, for example. Don’t worry, Mona Lisa is still safe at the Louvre, for now.
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