Banksy Artwork & Study Packet Flashcards

A complete set of vocabulary flashcards covering Banksy's artworks, context, stylistic elements, and themes based on the lecture notes.

Don't Forget Your Scarf

A Banksy artwork featuring stenciled text reading "DON'T FORGET TO EAT YOUR LUNCH AND MAKE SOME TROUBLE".

No Trespassing

An April 2010 San Francisco street intervention artwork depicting an uncolored Indigenous man against a brick wall, created to critique the government for not honoring its word regarding Native American land and rights.

Banksy Rug

A 2019 conceptual artwork from the Gross Domestic Product store featuring carpet with a resin head resembling the corpse of Tony the Tiger, signed and suitable for vegetarians, aimed at exposing corporate manipulation and highlighting that the UK spends over £7.8million a year on tooth extractions for under 5's.

Banksy Baby Mobile

A ceiling-mounted stimulus toy displayed at the Gross Domestic Product store in Croydon, London, featuring security cameras to critique surveillance culture and mock commercialism.

The Son of a Migrant from Syria

An artwork painted in a refugee camp in 'the Jungle' during the European refugee crisis, utilizing irony by depicting a wealthy man to represent struggling people and show the potential benefits of immigrants.

Show Me the Monet

A parody of Claude Monet's work that juxtaposes a beautiful landscape with discarded waste to critique consumer culture, hyper-capitalism, and climate change.

The Season's Greetings

An artwork located in an industrial town in Wales that uses color contrast and dramatic irony where falling snowflakes are actually industrial ash/pollution, critiquing corporate greed and how it poisons future generations.

The Girl and the Balloon

A famous Banksy artwork that was sold at auction with a built-in self-destructing mechanism, using the irony of an out-of-reach balloon to critique how art is valued by elites and the general public.

Painting for Saints

A tribute artwork created during COVID-19 featuring a red cross symbol to depict healthcare workers as heroes; it was sold to support healthcare research.

Sirens of the Lambs

A literary allusion to 'Silence of the Lambs' featuring a truck driven through areas near butcher shops and meat packaging facilities to highlight animal cruelty and expose the hidden reality of food production.

Ghetto for Life

A Bronx, New York street artwork depicting a butler and a kid, using vivid colors to contrast letters, created to appeal to upper and lower classes while critiquing inequality and showing that poverty is not always a choice.

Untitled, Birmingham, 2019

A holiday season artwork in Birmingham, UK, featuring two white reindeers painted on a dark brick wall as if pulling a public bench like Santa's sleigh, designed to evoke empathy for the unhoused population and critique societal indifference.

If Graffiti Changed Anything

An artwork referencing Emma Goldman's quote on voting, featuring a rat and the phrase "IF GRAFFITI CHANGED ANYTHING IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL" to show how authorities perceive street art as political and negative.

Choose Your Weapon

An artwork paying homage to graffiti artist Keith Haring, using stencils and a dog as a symbol for violence and intimidation in youth gang culture to raise awareness of street culture.