Monday 23 July 2012

Art + Design: The Olympic Games x Banksy

With the opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games closing in on us, with the big day falling on Friday, it is with coincidental timing that Banksy has made his opinions known as always through two 'commemorative' street art murals. The propaganda features one image of a javelin thrower with his javelin having been replaced with a long range aerial missile. The other is of a pole vaulter playing a prisoner propelling himself over a barbed wire fence with only a mattress to land on at the other side. A very interesting satirical take on all the proceedings...