– Banksy, famous for his’faceless painter’, has unveiled his new painting. The title is’Aachoo!’.
Bank City released 3 photos on her Instagram account on the 10th (Present Time). The new work depicts an old woman sneezing through a mural. An old woman with a scarf on her head is sneezing severely enough to bend her upper body. He humorously expressed the way that his dentures were blown away because he sneezes and missed the cane and hand bag he was holding in one hand.
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According to British media Metro et al., the mural was painted on the exterior wall of a house in Bristol, England. Vale street, where the house is located, has a slope of 22 degrees and is considered one of the steepest residential areas in the UK. Banksy used the slope here to make it look like an old man in the mural sneezes, knocking down next door and trash cans, and a man holding an umbrella turned upside down in the wind loses focus and falls.
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Before the mural was painted, the average house price on Vail Street was £400,000 (about 580 million won). However, with the appearance of Banksy’s work, the houses here are expected to cost billions of won.
According to the UK Daily Mail, the house with the mural painting is currently sold and the amount sold is unknown. An art expert estimated the value of the mural at £5 million (about 7.22 billion won).
Earlier in July, Banksy released a video on his SNS where he dressed up as a quarantine agent and painted a picture inside the subway. He also emphasized the necessity of complying with the corona quarantine rules by drawing “a rat sneezing”, a rat using hand sanitizer, and a rat coming down a mask parachute.
– Banksy is an artist famous for his unconventional moves, such as leaving graffiti on the exterior walls of street buildings around the world, or hiding his works in art museums. He also worked as a film director, debuting with the documentary film’Exit through the Gift Shop’ in 2010 and was nominated for the 2011 Academy Feature Documentary Award.
Banksy’s identity is still unknown despite rumors, but his work is being traded at a high price. Banksy’s oil painting’Show Me the Monet’, a reinterpretation of Monet’s’Water Lily Pond,’ at the London Sotheby’s auction on the 21st of last month, was auctioned at £7,516,000 (about 11.2 billion won).
Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]
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