Banksy print Morons white signed

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Year: 2007
Size: 70 x 50 cm
Signature: Hand Signed
Frame: Never Framed
Edition: 300
Medium: Screen Print

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Short Description

Banksy (English, b. 1974) is a graffiti artist whose artwork has appeared

throughout London and other locations around the world. Bansky's artwork is

characterized by striking images, often combined with slogans. His work

regularly engages political themes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism,

hypocrisy and greed. Common subjects include rats, apes, policemen,

members of the royal family, and children. In addition to his two-dimensional

work, Banksy is known for his installation artwork. One of the most celebrated

of these pieces, which featured a live elephant painted with a Victorian

wallpaper pattern, sparked controversy among animal rights activists. He was

the subject of a 2010 documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop,

Banksy’s original

stenciled anti-war piece, Soldiers Painting Peace, became

prominent after it was displayed in a collection at the Tate Britain gallery in

London in 2007. The collection was a recreation of an artistic display outside of

the Houses of Parliament, which was confiscated for supposedly violating a law

against unauthorized protest within a certain distance of the building. In this

painting two soldiers dressed in battle gear warily look around as they conspire

to paint a peace sign on a wall. One is crouching down and holding a machine

gun, while the other is holding a brush that has been dipped into a can of red

paint and is working on completing the sign.

This satirical work by Banksy repudiates the repression of free speech that

often takes place when a nation is at war, in an effort to maintain the

appearance of consensus. In this work men who are armed with deadly

weapons fear for their lives, which highlights that repression in a society may

occur not only a physical but also an intellectual level. This is especially ironic

when the justification for the war is to spread liberty and democracy

Description

Banksy Morons

EDITION

• 100 LA Edition – Unsigned White (signed and unsigned) • 500 POW Edition – Unsigned White • 300 POW Edition – Signed Sepia • 150 POW Edition – Signed White Size 56x76cm

With banksy POW stamp, ( the LA donthave any stamp)

Morons is one of Banksy's harshest critiques toward the art market, and is a biting graffiti art print.

The Banksy print Morons  it first appeared on Banksy’s site soon after a record breaking auction result for one of his canvases.  Along with Trolleys, Applause, Sale Ends, Festival and Grannies, the Morons was originally released as an unsigned edition of 100 at Banksy’s 2006 show Barely Legal in LA, printed by Modern Multiples.  Numbered out of 500, only 100 of this particular edition were ever put up for sale.  There are a limited number of signed prints in circulation from the LA edition (low edition numbers and proofs),  but these never went on general sale.

The original LA edition of Morons differs slightly from it’s later POW counterpart –  the main difference being  the frame of the auctioned image depicted is gold.

In 2007, Morons saw a release at POW in three different flavours, unsigned in white, signed in white and signed in the sepia colourway.